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Hop Back Brewery's 'Summer Lightning' bottle-conditioned ale. Delicious, and our local shop does four bottles for a fiver. Check it out.Cheers,Tim_____________________________Os nid Campagnolo yw hi, dyw hi ddim yn werth ei marcho...

Dear Sirs,In the light of your failure to elect a proper President of the USA andthus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of yourindependence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIwill resume monarchical...

On the yahoo website it says I can grab my mail from yahoo in my usual mail application, in this Case OSX's mail application.Well I have followed the instructions carefully and set up the account, but it does not work.Neither does it work in Entorage...

Just a quickie re the current November issue, with a really good artical about Music and the Brain. It investigates what happens in the brain when listening to music.Martin

This is doing the rounds here.Thirty five things to do before the Jan 20 catastrophe. Sorry, inauguration: 1. Get that abortion you've always wanted.2. Drink a nice clean glass of water.3. Cash your social security check.4. See a doctor of your own...

can you please address me to sites that are dealing with this subject?Thanks,Arye

I'm getting a bit fed up with a trend on new DVDs. Increasing numbers of these have previews at the start that you are forced to watch every time the DVD is played. The only option is to fast forward through these, but this is still a PITA. In my...

Hi folks,I quite fancy an iSight for my Powerbook. Don't know quite why, but I have that nerdy urge to acquire one.However, I'm finding it difficult to justify. I've an £18 money off voucher burning a hole in my email account to be spent with...

How much more can the tv companies squeeze onto the picture?I rarely watch the news as I prefer to enjoy life, but tonight thought I'd watch the remembrance fly-past. No chance. Far more important was a banner telling me what I was watching, another...

Hi guys,About a month ago I won an auction at Ebay. I had won 4 pieces of silver cable for use as jumpers on my biwire terminals for E 4,50. The seller was located in Germany, so I knew I would have to pay some costs for transport, but to my...

My car (VW Golf v6 mark 4 with lots of leather) is too small now. So I need a replacement. Please tell me what to look at as I am at a loss!Points to consider:Private buyer so no scheme like Dev B so 2nd hand best, 2 years old maximum and ideally less...

Did anyone catch Top Gear last night? I was out having a bar supper and I missed all but the last ten minutes (CLarkson being a bit silly driving some 4WD up a hill - a bit silly seing as 99.99% of said 4WDs will never see anything more challenging...

Those little ticks keep appearing next to topics on the forum and seem to indicate the enthusiasm with which the thread is received by members.So, as I lack depth in my sense of humour, I thought I'd see if I could start a topic about nothing in...

I have asked advice about this before, and have gotten some, which has in turn made me ask my electrician (and a couple of other ones) to find out about all possible options here in Switzerland, which I would now like to submit to the forum. I know...

Only joking!Martin

Ms Stewart has been at the helm of multi-million dollar business Martha Stewart, the US lifestyle guru convicted of lying to federal investigators about a suspicious share sale, has begun her prison sentence.She was sentenced to five months'...

I am doing a bit of printing that seems to be a bit on the dark side compared to the screen.I wonder if perhaps its because the screen is so much brighter than the last one, but still I don't really understand the whole colorsync thing, can anyone...

sorry if this has been posted before, but I did a search and couldn't find anything.I've finally decided to upgrade my anti-virus/firewall software on my home pc. I only have one PC and I'm using Windows XP Home. When I got it had a free trial of...

Christmas PresentsI have put my order in to Santa RegardsNB

I'm shortly off to Colorado and Utah to celebrate a pal's 40th birthday by trying to climb some desert towers. We're flying in to Denver and will probably spend a couple of days in the area whilst said friend takes care of some business. Any...

"Democracy should not be about allowing the majority to ride roughshod over a minority."

That is, what to do about ear hair.Having reached age of 42, I notice it's starting to sprout. Not wanting huge tufts in me lugholes, I would like to know what's the best way of getting rid of it. Are those Remington ear, nose and eyebrow clippers one...

I have 4 pieces of solid beech that are approx 2” deep, 4 foot long and 6” wide. I would like to use this as some ‘chunky’ shelving. I’d also like to fit them to an internal supporting wall in a way that you don’t...

After following the USA election I cannot quite get my head around their political system. I kind of understand how the Prez is elected, I assume each state has a number of electoral votes based upon its size and population, but I am unsure as to what...

Hi allI want to set up a wireless system for a friend who has a PC running Win98. They are using NTL broadband. Can anyone recommend a wireless router and a card/dongle that would work with the PC?RegardsStephen