yep – I'll be the one at the back…

If you feel someone is deliberately driving too close, report it to the Police.

And yes, why not give them the registration? The guy is bringing their company into disrepute – they will want to know about it.

For a teenage girl, even a broken iPod is better than anything else. Don't dare even be in the same room if it's not an iPod on Christmas day…

I went to one about a year ago called San Martino's and it was fab. The main guy there was about as Italian as you could get and was really friendly.

Food was really good – they even sorted out gluten-free vegetarian for the gf.

The cars are great. I've had two and even had a look at the MiTo – can't decide between that and a new Fiesta which seems to drive better to be honest.

The dealers, however, are truly dreadful. I'm convinced that the cars are no more or less reliable than any other car but once it does go wrong, you are in for a whole world of hurt – simply resign yourself to the fact that tehy will never, ever actually fix it…

I like it but not sure what that means…

whatever is coming out of the factory chimney I guess. I assume tinned.

too right, organic. The Seal Skinz factory is opposite what used to be the Campbells soup factory – it used to be the smell of oxtail soup that I hated – now it's the sound of thousands of slaughtered seals…

When you run iTunes for the first time, it asks you if you want it to go looking for music.

If you want to add more music after that, you can go to the File menu and "Import Music" I think.

You need to install iTunes – you can download it from http://www.apple.com/itunes then tell iTunes where to find your music.

Once iTunes has recognised all your music, just connect your iPod and syncronise your music.

Mr Trout sir – you are a genius! This light is fabulous! Thanks very much…

I owe you beer, should we ever meet.

R

mastiles – you might also want to have a look at Mojo Helpdesk ( http://www.mojohelpdesk.com/ ) looks good to me!!

EDIT – doh!! I saw "feedback" and got carried away. Now I've actually READ your post, I'd be more inclined to have a look at some of the tools that Atlassian make…

You know, if you're really just after document management, I can't think of anything better than well organised fileshares. They are well understood by everyone in the buisiness, they need less specialist skills to maintain and most-importantly-of-all they work with all your software.

The numbere of times I've come across applications that struggle to access files in SharePoint, it drives me round the bend.

I'm sure I'll get no end of ribbing at work if anyone reads this (as I'm probably our company's most vociferous nay sayer) but SharePoint is pretty good if you stick to keeping it simple and small. Don't try and permanently store large numbers of documents in there – use it as a method of collaborating on them.

Also have a look at a free tool called OpenAtrium (http://openatrium.com/). It really is very interesting and is built on Drupal which is rapidly becoming a star in the web content management business. Seems to be good enough for whitehouse.gov ubuntu.com and ozzy.com, anyway…

Is it just me that flicked my eyes down the page and read "Dave Hinds vs. Nicolai views" for the title???

14.8V

I'm making use of my old battery for my Troutlight :)

Got myself a MacBook Pro 13" the other week. My God it's good – just from an industrial design point of view it is streets ahead of everything else I've seen. I have the "pleasure" of using a Dell laptop at work which I can pick up and twist in my hands – not the Mac – it's absolutely bloody solid. Must be a good sign for it's longevity.

OS X is pretty good at not allowing a virus to do anything nasty to your computer, unless you do something like type in your admin password for it when it wants to install.

Yes, that does sound unlikely, doesn't it? BUT… downloading and installing some "dodgy version of MS Office" or equivalent is just the type of "way in" that is used to get nasty code onto an OS X machine…

Work on the principle that, so long as you only install trusted applications, you'll be fine.

yes, it'll play mp3

Yes. When you install iTunes you can say import tracks and tell it where you music is. You choose to either keep it in it's original location or (better) copy it to a specific iTunes folder.

ITunes always seems to get a bad name on here. I must say it has been nothing but perfect for me but then, if I want to fiddle with how something works and risk breaking it, I tend to do that in work time rather than on my home pc. Much less bother!!

Bad news – I'll certainly keep my eyes out.

That Nicolai is ace, too – convinced me to buy one!!

IPhone, unless you want to spend the rest of your contract explaining why you bought the alternative.

Think of it as a bit like buying a Porsche Boxster – no doubt very good but then have to explain that the reason you bought that and not the 911 is that you can't afford one…

is it by any chance Penrith?

yep – best stick to Vista.

Don't want everyone on Mac – mine wouldn't be quite so exclusive then.

What is it you plan to do with the iPod Touch once it is "jailbroken"?

Yeah – it always seems to be the same in there. Just not interested, really.

You can't use digital maps on a Geko (or at least I don't think you can!)

This is regardless of whether your computer is Windows or Mac OS X

BTW – what excatly is the model of your Mac? You say PowerBook Pro but there never was such a model.

There was a PowerBook (which is a PowerPC based laptop so runs older software)
And there was a MacBook Pro (which is Intel based and will run newer software, like Snow Leopard)

I'd be tempted to avoid Trailrunner on really old powerPC based laptops…

There's lots of sw on the Garmin website – see here http://www8.garmin.com/macosx/index.jsp

I use my Edge 705 with TrailRunner (www.trailrunnerx.com), which I like but has a quite unique feel to it.

Also see RouteBuddy (http://www.routebuddy.com/) – I might give this a go soon as OS maps are available AND a version that runs on an iPhone…

just tell the ipod to start up in hard disk mode (have a look for key combinations on google – can't remember the exact one now) and then have a look in the hidden folders on the disk. All the music is in there. Just copy it like any other file.

The glow-in-the-dark option is the coolest thing I've seen all week…

Four of us went to Norway on a road trip on July. Was great fun!

There still is a ferry – a mainly freight affair leaving from Immingham and going to Stavanger – be warned though – it goes via Gothenburg so it's a 40 hour crossing all told.

Petrol is expensive but Diesel is cheaper than it is in Cambridge (although, having said that, it's probably cheaper on the Moon than Cambridge , too.)

We lined to floor of the car with beer and food. Seemed to work well and we only ate out twice I think.

There was only a little riding around Stavanger but there were some technical trails…

We moved on to Lillehammer and found the Hajfell Bike Park which was absolutely brilliant. Fantastic place, even if I did stuff my knee on one descent…

@marsdenman – I hope so, there's a big box full of 'em near my desk!!! :)

Yes, I have the Shimano ones and they are absolutely fine. You may fine when you're a flat pedal "expert", that you want something else – well go buy them when you know what you want. In the meantime, the Simano ones are trouble free, grippy and big enough to put your foot on.

oo – yes please! I'd love one of those lights. Email on it's way…

I grew up in Yeadon, on the other side of the airport from Horsforth. The aircraft noise is just something you get used to and people are right – the riding straight out of your door is well worth it.

I took my road bike to majorca from leeds/bradford. They were really good with it – even saw the guy taking it out to the plane and he didn't kick it at all.

I seem to remember having to pay extra for the bike actually at the airport, as opposed to online but that was no big deal.

Not mine, a friend's, but I do love it…

My bright bike is much more mainstream…

bike pub – what a dangerously brilliant idea!!!