Is anyone still having issues with it freezing all the time?
I get about 10-15mins use before it freezes for around 1 min!
FF7

No FF 7 seemed to fix this for me, I was seriously thinking of migrating to Opera or something as v6 and v6.something were becoming increasingly unusable. I also uninstalled all my add-ons and uninstalled FF, reinstalled FF and reinstalled add-ons – maybe it was that which “fixed” FF – all hunky dory now, even memory usage is better.

Seemed a nice enough couple seeking to live a nice life but not sure why they had to/wanted to build such a massive house. As others have said by the time he’s finished they’ll be empty nesters living in a huge house with an awesome view. How much is an 8 acre small holding with that kind of view btw?

Bontrager ACX (what’s the new equivalent btw) genuine 3 season tyre, for the non tyre changers amongst us.

Checked out the C3 Picasso when we were car shopping recently (we were looking at the C4 Picasso), must admit I loved the look of it, fantastically roomy and much more interesting than the other cars in selection. Honest John gave it a huge write up but the owners reviews are a little errr “mixed”

I had a few problems after just converting to SS, despite being semi-used to SS having SS-ed my pub bike years ago. I was miffed because SS was such a revelation that I would have been gutted to put the gears back on. I gave myself a month and if the knee issues persisted I was going to go go all geary again, I think I took a week off as well. Gradually the knee pain subsided and now they feel great, probably better than before in fact. Mindful of the fact though I bought myself a winter/mud gear which goes on in December and comes off in April/May. I ride a 29er 32*18 in summer and 32*20 in winter.

The Alfa Giulietta uses some bits of spangly steel to keep weight down

It wasn’t in the least inventive or interesting, they’d simply fixed a barn and stuck their possessions in it, added a couple of “rooms” and that was it. Massively environmentally unfriendly to boot. Isn’t this what people did with warehouses in the 70’s?

I was a bit meh about it, but keep coming back to the £850k it cost and then it leaves me feeling profoundly depressed. EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS, they could have done so much better.

I did Pilates for a few years but broke my wrist about 4 years ago, by the time I was good to go back the class had closed. Recently got off my lazy arse and found a new class and now I’m really feeling the benefit. I ride a SS and now am able to grunt the bike up hills easier (well quicker) than I did before, just feel way more powerful, it’s the perfect complementary exercise to riding imo.

Thanks so far, not sure if he wants drop bar or flat, I’m guessing flat but he also complains about sore wrists/hands so maybe drop bar with their greater variety of hand positions. Bit mystified by On-One always fitting 170mm cranks to their urban bikes, he would definitely fit into the 175mm territory given his height.

He was a DJ on planet rock a while back. He was so overtly egotistical I really enjoyed listening, constant name dropping “rock” anecdotes and playing his own records

BBC financial expert Alessio Rastani: ‘I’m an attention seeker not a trader’

In the interview Mr Rastani described himself as an independent trader. Elsewhere he claims he’s an “investment speaker”. Instead of operating from a plush office in Canary Wharf Mr Rastani works and lives with his partner Anita Eader in a £200,000 semi in Bexleyheath, south London. The house, complete with a mortgage from Royal Bank of Scotland, belongs to her not him.

He is a business owner, a 99pc shareholder in public speaking venture Santoro Projects. Its most recent accounts show cash in the bank of £985. After four years trading net assets are £10,048 – in the red.

He seemed very “energetic” to me

I learned lots of stuff about the Etruscans

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Etruscans, an ancient civilisation which flourished in central Italy for five hundred years before the emergence of the Roman Republic.[/url]

and that my eyes/brain simply cannot handle the upside down/back to front bike pic up there ^^^^^

Nice Fear Factory tune too, haven’t listened to it for a dogs age

Went to the annual “isn’t the school great” open evening the other day. Head said they’d investigated academy status and that ultimately there wouldn’t be much/any extra money and no real advantage for them.

The whole thing is driven on the school side by religious zealots and heads with a CEO fetish.

Should make it clear that this last bit is my opinion not his.

Dorset is magic imo. I’d love to live there.

Went to the annual “isn’t the school great” open evening the other day. Head said they’d investigated academy status and that ultimately there wouldn’t be much/any extra money and no real advantage for them. The whole thing is driven on the school side by religious zealots and heads with a CEO fetish.

Nice to see one of the aristocats of European football giving the arriviste petro-dollar tards a footballing lesson though.

http://www.tayloroldbondst.co.uk/acatalog/shaving-soaps-and-creams.html

This ^^^^

the mrs particularly likes the sandalwood.

And indeed this ^^^^^

Can get it cheaperer, if not as nicely packaged on ebay

Taylors of Old Bond Street – ebay

Lasts for a long time too, I tend to over apply and I’ve probably only used about 2/3rds of my 150g pot of the Sandalwood cream since January

First I heard of it was on that Sirens TV show (very good btw, I hope they re-commission)

He looks high imo

I’m 6’1 and rode a large and even that had a lot of seatpost out (I have longish legs).

Shawshank Redemption

For a couple of days a year in the south I don’t think they are really worth it. Maybe if I lived in scotchland.

Besides, that would mean on snowy days I’d feel like I had to go to work….

Have to say I disagree with this, my old dear drives a BMW and being rear wheel drive she found it pretty much undriveable in snow and ice. She bought some all season tyres (Bridgestone A001) last year and found the difference to be night and day. They also grip much better in the wet and cold, of which we have plenty in the south.

Installed the latest version on a legacy lap top we acquired. Have set it up dual boot style. Like the interface but it runs terribly slowly opening up ff takes about 30s and opening the program which lists all the installed progs locks it up for a minute. Not sure what’s up. May be a kernel issue according to Some blah on the web. Hoping that the latest beta will work better. If not it’s back to xp, which is fine imo.

Some more

Transmetropolitan,

Sin City,

and not really sci-fi or superhero stuff, the works of Daniel Clowes.

I’d start with Watchmen though.

Flicking through the channels last night I came across the disturbingly skinny fizog of Robin Gibb, he looks ill, is he one of those restricted diet freaks?

Yeah I get this too, had to abandon a couple of rides because of it. Solved with a Windstopper Headband. Mine is the Northwave Vectris, they don’t seem to do it anymore but I’m sure there must be equivalents. Went for the headband because I run pretty hot and it still lets the top of your head breath. I bought an “emergency” Nike headband when I forgot the Northwave one but it was fleecy and got soaked in sweat, much prefer the thinner Windstopper type

did you pit the leccy tape straight onto the rim or ontop of rim tape.

Straight on rim

I very nearly bought one, infact we had an ex-motability one lined up which we would have bought except for the “collapsed” driver seat – a known problem. . The “exclusive” top spec model has loads of toys but until recently only came with the semi-auto box it also has self levelling suspension. The semi auto is quite good if you like that sort of thing, it can be a flappy paddled manual or full auto, gear changes in semi auto were quick and but not massively smooth.

I know the electric parking brake is not to everyones taste and found it a bit annoying. Loads of storage space and cubby holes. There have been problems with the semi auto gear box and the self levelling suspension reported on the C4 forum. The VTR+model is the one we were looking at in manual to lessen any expensive failures. It drives ok, definitely not as good as the S-Max and the Renault Scenic (new shape) we ultimately bought. The 1.6 is fine, not amazing but it will quite happily power you along on fast roads, and accelerate with enough zip around town. There seem to be quite a few being used as cabs so reliability must be ok If it had been down to me I’d have got one but the missus preferred the more car like Grand Scenic and ultimately it was her decision.

Re: Fatgits post above, the “Exclusives” self levelling suspension would have been better in those circumstances and from what I read there is a software upgrade for the box which makes the changes much smoother.

In the end we left a bit late so didn’t have time for a proper sit down and ended up in Benitos Hat[/url]. It was great and I’ll definitely be going back.

when using electrical tape, how many layers did you use and what valve did you fit?

2 layers all round and an 3rd overlapping the valve hole. I use the Effetto Cafe Tubeless valves, work well but a bit spendy I thought. Previously used the Bontrager Valves on my 26er but that was with a bontrager rim strip, which worked really well in Bontrager rims.

Yarse. Fully tubelessed using TN719 and electrical insulation tape.

Is the 50% tax rate immoral, “interesting” stuff from the moral maze

Moral Maze[/url]

Just discovered this the other day, Cock Sparrer doing a cover of the Stones “We Love You”

Motorola Droid Bionic is what I’m hearing from my gadget head mate

My family are Ligurian and I used to go there often when I was a nipper, my memories of September are mahooosive thunderstorms, interspersed with perfect riviera weather.

The thing I don’t understand is that if Scotland really does take a net subsidy from England, why are the Tory politicians so keen to keep the Union? Surely they’d rather Scotland left the Union, stopped taking the ‘subsidy’, allowing them to give the fat cats in the ‘city’ bigger tax breaks.

It’s in their DNA, their proper name is the “Conservative and Unionist Party”

How about one of these

Fox Vapor

Lightish cheapish doesn’t look that breathable, I don’t think it would be actually any good for what you want though. Echo the softshell idea or traditional shell with fleece mid layers

Not sure why but that’s not doing it for me. I liked the “in action” shot from a while back though, perhaps it’s the colour, or build.

Funny how 29ers look so normal now.

The 28×28 wheel drive vehicle used to move the telescopes around at the Atacama Large Millimeter Array as featured on the Horizon episode “seeing Stars”