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While watching the box over the holiday I happened to see the recorded highlights? of the Manchester United vs Spurs match and the Spurs' goal-from-the-halfway-line-that-wasn't caught my eye - it also took my breath away. Being only an occasional...
After reading your thoughts on the BBC or Beeb, I send you glad tidings. Another great Aussie product will be shown on the aforementioned network in the near future.Who can resist a show which has now gone three seasons with an average audience of two...
i met a man today who was being deliberately rude to me. Why are you doing this I asked. He replied..." Because I choose to"Maybe this will become part of a new speech pattern when we don't want to account for what we say or the way we behave.I...
...All over my Mu-Ziq vs The Auteurs CD. I let the liquid dry (didn't know what else to do) but said CD is now unplayable. Does anyone have any recommendations for cleaning them?Thanks in advanceKevin
Just wondering, after watching Marilyn Manson videos and seeing how much fun they seem to have.Pink Floyd? The Corrs? ( I think you can guess why... )RegardsMikeSpending money I don't have on things I don't need.
Having bought a new mattress a few years ago from John Lewis and taken their advice as to how firm it should be, both Kate and I found after a few months that we were waking stiff (??) and sleeping badly. So, we went back and bought another new one,...
All 20 Premiership clubs are playing against lower league opposition in the 3rd round of the FA Cup this weekend.Will there be any upsets ?Could be a superb accumulator !!!!!!!Signature - surely it's just a Naim ?
Hi all,a friend has inherited from his father a mechasnical watch that purports to be a Rolex Submariner. I know there are sites dedicated to all things horological, but I can't be arsed to find one. Anybody here knows what to look out for to tell the...
Around 1989-90 a British comedy series played in New Zealand. I can't for the life of me remember the name and I have googled to no avail.IIRC it was set in a technical college and one of the teachers kept a diary from which his voice-over read every...
I finally succumbed and bought my first ever mac - a lowly ibook G4 (14") - instead of a windows laptop.Wow! Fabulous machine both look wise (that white gloss polycarbonate casing is sweet) and MacOSX (10.3 "panther" in this case) is really very, very...
Hi, any help would be appreciated.After loading my daughters Sims2 game it would not function as I dont have an adaptor suitable for DirectX9.0c. I am guessing this is something to do with graphics chips. I have a Sony VAIO AMD Athlon XP 1.53Ghz and...
I've played guitar since about 1970 (for self abuse purposes) and had a Jap copy Telecaster for the past ten years.I've been promising myself the genuine USA article and finally got it today. 'Natural' Ash body and maple neck.Not only does it feel and...
As natural disasters go, the tsunami that devastated parts of Asia and Africa has to be one of the deadliest in modern times. And as gruesome as the initial estimates were, each day I check the headlines the death toll seems to go up by another...
In spring I made some upgrades and the system needed two months to break-in. In the summer I had an outstanding sound. Since October the system started to show some weaknesses like small lack of bass and depth. After checking the whole system and...
Cut and pasted from elsewhere... pretty sound!Bill Gates' recent speech at Mount Whitney High School in Visalia, CA is worthwhile reading. Love him or hate him, he sure hit the nail on the head. He talked about how "feel-good" and "politically...
There is an article in our greatest daily newspaper Yediot Achronot that tells that outcomes of a review that took place in England puts Israel in several subjects at the most ugliest rank out of many countries in the world, with the exception that...
Ever the tight-arse with the $ being what it is at the moment CDs from the states seem dirt cheap.However, with shipping and trying to keep each order under £18 it's not economical is so much as you can spend $10 to get $20 of CDs...
From today, after over 20 years of being on-call, I no longer have responsibility for the provision of "out of hours" medical cover. The responsibility for all cover has shifted to the Primary Care Trust.The Government offered the option to GPs to...
Well now you can tax your car online:http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/index.jspNo more lining up with OAPs and chavs.Tony
This has to be seen to be believedRobot
I kind of get it, people can post a message, but why is it now called a blog and not a message?
GOt this for Christmas.Not being a PC mag reader there are a couple of observations / questions.What is all this Steam business about?I have never know a game take so long to install and load. You can go and make a cup of tea whilst it slogs through...
Just finished watching Good Will Hunting and was just wondering what is the most difficult or impossible maths you have attempted?
Anyone managed to do this? If so what S/W and setup did you use? Simple with short words please!Thanks in advance.Howard