Padded Cell

"On July 16, 1999 at Les Deux Magots cafe, by Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, my magazine editor wife recognised the world's most famous portrait photographer, Annie Leibovitz at the next table to us. Of course, after gushing our admiration in an unseemly manner for 30 seconds, we left her alone. But, instead of that, why didn't we feign complete ignorance of who she was, hand over equivalent of a brownie Box, and ask her to take a shot of us? "Just press that little button up the top, on the...

I have been nursing a laptop with a cracked hinge for a few months & its just decided to break properly. So its new laptop time, make & model is not a question. And I have a lot of MS & Windows based work & other stuff, so please don't suggest Apple-MAC My question is about Windows 8 - any experience on how it works compared to Vista - any tips about smart ways to transfer files - anything I might not have thought of

Does what it says on the tin. What were your fave telly progs of 2014? I think it was a better year for TV than for music, personally (2013 was a great year for music, this past year not so much).   So, here are my faves, in no particular order...

Are all the 21.5 " slim versios iMacs fixed memory? I know the 27" can be user upgraded and latest 21.5 can't.

Well I am back from a lovely week in Norway. We never visited one tourist attraction, but walked many tens of miles, fished, and set nets, conversed muchly, and shared great traditional Norwegian food of the oldest sort. We had mutton in cabbage stew...

...took another step into history, as opposed to living memory, today, with the death of Luise Rainer just a few days short of her 105th birthday.    Rainer only made about a dozen films, but she was a great actress and a great beauty, and...

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas...I find myself watching 'The Great Escape' (and enjoying it) for the umpteenth time.   However, my favourite (anti) war film is 'Paths of Glory' directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1957 and starring a...

what did you get worth mentioning. 

Mine was after preparing the family get together feast, I found I could just sit down with a glass of red and let the female side take over. Oh, joy!    The Grandchildren are well behaved for once. Even more joy!   A Happy New Year to...

I'm looking into a spur and would like to get the latest thinking/information.   1) 1 or 2 times 6mm squared, it would seem 10 mm is a bit difficult to work with.   2) External access is really the only route for me approx 12m total, other...

What a day to announce it  I wonder how many subbed out cheap man with vans are having a great Christmas?

Here's wishing all my fellow musos a great Xmas etc. Have a great time guys. Regards, Lindsay

From the halls of Odin, with a flagon of mead.

Thank you for making this a very special place. See you all in 2015! ATB Tony

everyone.......here's hoping we all have a great time... and the less fortunate and the people in ill health have the best time ever.......      

'Fettling my LP12' is a phrase often used by forumites...but can you fettle an NDS? I think not.   Do we need some new words in a world of digitalia?   G

i don't live in London ,but I am saddened by the closure of so many music venues in and around the area to be converted into apartments recently.  

Leaving the National Ice Centre in Nottingham last night, my son started a conversation about how the finances of touring works. He'd seen a poster for McBusted's two Nottingham dates next year, with tickets priced at just short of £50. When we started to do our back-of-the-envelope calculations I realised I didn't actually know which way round this worked. Does the venue pay a fixed fee to the band, or do the band pay a hire fee to the venue? Presumably it could be different at different...

I have come to the conclusion that on the Naim website, "Find a Retailer" is THE new game for Xmas   OK, the map display now works a lot better than a few months back and if you know your geography fairly well you can "mouse-over" a numbered Pin...

Sorry, if I caused offence by using a a piccy of a Klyde cartridge as my avatar. Was it you, that removed it Richard? You naughty boy! I seem to remember you warning us, re copyrite. I respect that, and have have changed avatar to the first pic I...

This film shows exactly what was and is great about Great Britain. It is quite amazing that such skills as those shown could be shared with trainees in a time of emergency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...list=WL&index=18 ATB from George

My iMac is now only playing 10 or 11 seconds  of video at a time. I don't think I've changed anything.   Any ideas ?   iMac OSX 10.10 Firefox.

Please could someone post a dummies guide to setting a proxy server to get around regional restrictions, so download sites think I'm not in the UK. I use Chrome, if that's significant. I assume I'd need to be able to use the usual server for normal...

Mine was a visit to SteveJ's aka Dr Blues where I met Steve C and we listened to just a fraction of his the fantastic vinyl collection,on a system the sound of which still lives in the memory and makes me smile.The lunch was not to shabby as...

Playing through this. Probably the best shooter to hit the markets since the original Half-Life.   Probably no one on this forum who remembers or played through the original Castle Wolfenstein (I did not - it was before my time). It's even more...