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Any coast dwellers been out catching mackerel this year? Have had a few on a spinner but lost it last night when one of them broke the line and swam off with it. There have been a lot of other anglers getting them with feathers. There seems to be more...

single mains spurs,i know there is a lot on this in past threads,and i have heard the dramatic improvement of 3x10mm single spurs to to each piece of equipment,but this is on older naim ,does anyone know if its as big an improvement on the new...

Hi,I am long sighted and use contacts to see distances and a pair of glasses to allow me to read. I want to ditch the need for the glasses so my optician has given me a pair of varifocal contact lenses to try out.I understand that the idea is that one...

To try and prevent my latest fax pas with a PC I have bought an external 500GB drive.Question 1 how does one use these things,are they left plugged in or just used as and when?Question 2 is there S/W to help save specific areas of your main H/D? I'm...

Tony Wilson has passed away...http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1013/1013..._battle_is_over.htmltoo short a life! RIP Tony.

Microsoft seems to be a bit miffed about Google making lots of money out of the internet and is plunging lots of dollars into getting a bigger share of the "search market".I have used Google exclusively for a long time now and was wondering if anybody...

I was at a friend's house this morning and he insisted on playing me a video of a Queen concert to show me 'a brilliant guitar solo' I begged him not to but he didn't listen. He knows I don't like Queen and he knows I particularly dislike 'Its a kind...

ChapsOnce Mrs F and I have the Murcieolago (it's ordered, in custard yellow) we will want to attend the odd Poohsticks tournament. Being an avid Poohsticker, I never allow the weather to stop me Poohsticking.I am wondering, what all-weather...

Saw it last night in HD,i thought one of the best pieces of TV i have ever seen.Cheers BB

Had my belated birthday present yesterday. I had a Ferrari Red Letter Day from my family and went to Thruxton Circuit in Hampshire.Briefing followed by 3 laps driven by instructor in a Mazda 3,3laps in Porsche Cayman driven by me,4 laps in a Ferrari...

It's nice to see that the FIA can act so fairly and swiftly: Alonso is a TwatAt least we won't be waiting for a Senna-esque first-lap, first corner incident in retaliation.Tony

''Rock star David Coverdale has been confronted by a black bear at his home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.''http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6931439.stm

I thought I'd come up with something special for my 1000th post. But I can't be arsed.

ive just watched a serviced pair of mint cb 135s go on ebay for £870 what is happenening to the 2nd hand prices of our equipment its utter madness. surely these amps are worth much more than that. is this just an absolute bargain or the sign of...

What are the views of people here on making the rights of co-habiting couples similar those of Married couples [in UK]? Is this sensible? Does it erode the institution of Marriage? Is this another example of the State interfereing where it has no business to be involved? Kindest regards from Fredrik

My PC has a 2 H/Ds the 2nd 160g is an addition for storage pictures music etc.The main (original) drive is formatted as 3 drives C:33g.D Backup 33g:,E Recovery 6g: approx.I was reading some stuff to investigate why my PC was running slow. One of the...

I've recently seen a couple of documentaries about the explosion at the Chernobyl Power Plant in 1986 and the aftermath. The stories about the "liquidators" - the cleanup crews of whom many died at the time as well as years later - were among the most...

A 2 AJust a bit of fun!

At 8am on 1st August 1907, Scouting’s Founder Robert Baden-Powell blew his kudu antelope horn on Brownsea Island, Poole Harbour, to open the world’s first Scout camp, with 20 boys from a wide variety of social backgrounds.At 8am on 1st...

Can anyone recommend a programme for a small school to keep track of stock (stationery etc). I has to be easy to use and cheap, preferably free. I'm ploughing through Google at the moment but if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful.ThanksSean

Looks as though GB has maintained a respectable space between himself & GWB, and then thrown himself wholeheartedly into proposals for the UN to aid Darfur. I still insist that the guy is not Tony Blair all over again and that he has something to offer, and so far I'm reasonably cautiously pleased with what I've seen, although I acknowledge this is a honeymoon period still. He's certainly put the Tories into a bit of a panic. If GB's foreign policy is far more respectable than Blair's, then...

Does the MAC use USBs?Could data saved from a PC on to an external H/D be read by a MAC?Howard

Dear Friends,Mr Brown is said to be possibly considering an Autumn General Election.Do people think this would be a good thing?Do the Tory party stand a chance of anything but a bloody nose in light of the fact they they remain in disarray, and Mr...

This will save me hours when I'm next doing the washing!/dl

Any one know of "trustworthy" dealer or shop in or around London or the SouthEast? I have a couple of 1930s camera an AGFA folding and a small Zeiss box.I don't think they are worth anything much but would not like to just give them away.Howard