The iphone and android support class compliant audio interfaces (via the camera connection kit on the iPhone) – the iPhone has quite specific power consumption requirements though – something like an Apogee One USB audio interface would give the best possible quality audio output from a smart phone on the move –

If you really wanted to go down the audio quality route, then you could use an audio specific kernel to replace the standard linux one in Android which will give you less jitter on the output (the difference is likely to be inaudible on the bus, through the vast majority of headphones).

Broadly, the DA conversion is passable in most modern gear, and it’s not worth worrying too much about the difference at that point in the signal chain – the quality of the source files (high bit rate MP3’s are an effective compromise) and the quality of the headphones are much more important.

Beer in the evening – trip advisor – Google reviews. Let people know….

Threaded or non-threaded depends on the threads – if the threads are sturdy, then either is fine, but with plastic and high pressure it can be easy to destroy the threads (and lose C02) so if it is mating metal to metal, then it’s going to be better than plastic to metal, which is better than plastic to plastic, you want it to hold together properly so that the C02 makes it into your tyre, not out into the air.

As above, ours is a myson – had it in since last summer, so not a long term test, but it does the job.

it’s the best place to dry shoes in my house – opening of the shoe pointing towards the fan outlet.

Independent: owner is located somewhere local(ish). Takes his salary / profits and some of it stays in the local economy – he shops locally, fuels his car locally, goes to the local theatre, whatever.

That is the logic – however, the bulk of the cash paid into the shop goes on purchasing stock and paying staff, there is no reason to think that staff (or the owner for that matter) live “locally” (whatever that means) and the money which goes to suppliers will leave the area just as quickly no matter whether it’s an independent or a chain. Much of the money paid to staff will go on rent which will leave the area pretty quick (rent to landlord, who pay mortgages to banks, or direct to the bank for the mortgage) – or food, which even if bought locally is likely to end up with the money heading overseas.

Greg Sharzer outlines how this outlook is incompatible with the realities of global capitalism in his book No Local.

We have a hydronic one and it’s very good – no point of comparison in terms of costs though I’m afraid.

Yes you do need electricity to power the fan – it’s on a thermostat, only blows when the central heating is over 47deg in ours.

Thanks for the advice above – pins snapped, calliper stripped and serviced, now working fine.

I got in to the car park just after 0745 this morning and there were more people there than I normally see at that time, did a lap with a poorly brake, got back around 0945 and it was totally rammed. I enjoyed the solitude, I only saw about 10 people all the way round.

The specific medicine which is of concern (as far as I am aware…I only listened to a food programme special on Radio 4 about, I’m no expert) is ‘bute’ or Phenylbutazone -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylbutazone

I’ve not planned anything, only just getting my new allotment cleared after last years house move/new allotment. Will probably plant some fancy spuds come good friday, and will turn over a fair part of it to beans and squashes, because I like them, other than that, would appreciate inspiration for planting (fruit/veg only).

No idea about current montane stuff, but i’ve got a 6/7 year old montane extreme smock which I think is brilliant, it only ever gets worn climbing in winter by me, it’s too hot for me to wear it walking in, but once you get on route etc. I wouldn’t be without it.

At the time it was significantly cheaper than the equivalent buffalo bit of kit, and me and my mates all bought one – the prices don’t seem particularly different any more, which is sad.

I switched to EBICO with a direct debit, they just asked how much I thought I needed to pay and haven’t changed it at all – despite the fact I changed to DD after 3 months of using them on a quarterly bill – so I’ve got 1 quarters worth of debt being (not) paid off by my DD’s. Very very reasonable people – would recommend.

I switched to EBICO with a direct debit, they just asked how much I thought I needed to pay and haven’t changed it at all – despite the fact I changed to DD after 3 months of using them on a quarterly bill – so I’ve got 1 quarters worth of debt being (not) paid off by my DD’s. Very very reasonable people – would recommend.

The picture of the guy on a Via ferrata with the bike above is pretty hardcore – I’d want a harness and lanyards if I was carrying a bike, clip the bike in separately though.

Thermal imaging (bizarre) and sheds, mountain chalets (yes, fair enough) and credit scores (yawn) is all I get this end.

Cruachan Horseshoe in Winter (a walk more than a climb, we got a rope out for one tricky decent, but it was a glorious day…)

Top of west Gully on Beinn Udlaidh

One of the Ice falls which forms in a good winter just across from the CIC hut, make a nice 1 pitch intro to a route on the carn Dearg buttress (or elsewhere in Corie na Ciste)

I have a brewing/cellar man cave and study/workshop man cave, and a shed.

Junkyard – I’m not sure NK think that way!

I’m not sure it’s possible to really understand anything that goes on in a country which essentially doesn’t tell anyone anything – with the western media left to make stuff up left right and centre. Given the tendency of our media to make stuff up left right and centre about more open ‘alternative’ regimes like Venezuela, I hold out no hope for reporting on Nth Korea being particularly informative, and tending towards hysterical hyperbole.

That said, more nukes, anywhere, can’t be a good thing.

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will do it.

There’s loads of them!

Yes, evernote. But, that doesn’t solve the problem – to get historic notes to sync, have you tried duplicating them – thus making a ‘new’ instance and triggering the sync.

I’m not sure there is a manual way of syncing them, so either duplicate to select all copy paste into a new note seems like the only way.

Evernote tends to be a bit clunky offline in my experience, but is fine when you have a net connection, and it’s great to sync across ipad, iPhone, computer whatever.

This isn’t a bluetooth problem – that’s just the protocol which is used to communicate. This is a hardware/software/driver problem.

Windows 7 does not come with Bluetooth audio (a2dp) support. You will have to contact the manufacturer of your computer, or the Bluetooth adapter that is built in to your computer to obtain a proper a2dp driver.

This is surely just the “29er’s are just a way of squeezing money out of people” debate writ large?

Southern Europe sounds like a good idea.

Did you spend money in their Pre Christmas sale, January Sale, Pricedrop or Warehouse Clearance sale that started today?

You for got the two “private” sales that went on along side those.

Given they are two different media, the important bit is how well the transition is done – a really good story in a graphic novel may well end up mangled on screen due to trying to hard to make it like the graphic novel or straying to far from the graphic novel or just being badly done…I’d like to see more good films, if they are based on graphic novels then so be it…

“This be the verse” and “this is just to say” have already been posted, so I won’t both posting them again.

Specialized concept store

Two complaints about two different ones of these both on the same day…

complaining that shops in a capitalist society are capitalist

I hear the Chiapas is nice this time of year.

I’d go with the Razor edge type 3, my wife would argue for a split screen bus, we actually have a rusty old ’65 beetle.

The Last Train.

how many audio streams are coming in and out at anyone time?

This is only a disappointing page 4 on google when you search for Berkshire Carpets and Blinds however, if you search for the website http://www.berkshirecarpetsandblinds.co.uk/ then this comes up as the 2nd and 3rd hit… more work on the berkshire carpets and blinds needed.

Past the basic exemption for 6 months, extension is at the discretion of the local council, and agreed at the local level, so even if one council might agree in your circumstances, that doesn’t mean your council will agree.

My job changes over the year, so one week I might work all the hours, but a few weeks later I’m taking it easy, generally, it probably evens out and i do what’s in my contract. Where I previously worked that certainly wasn’t the case and there was an expectation from (middle) management that you worked more than your contracted hours.

If anything – I’d drive to Llandegla saturday, then back to cannock Saturday night, then ride Cannock Sunday then home – both are reliable with regards the weather/mud/minimal destruction of trails, unlike a lot of the other stuff between Cannock and Bristol.

As above – that depends on which PGCE you take, FE ones do not lead to QTS status and as such you don’t need to do the QTS testing.

I took my PGCE in 2006, but the situation has changed very little qualifications wise in FE since.

I went to Llandegla mid week mid morning and did it in 1Hr 25 or so – it’s in the wrong direction for ‘on the way home’ though – you can get to rides in the Peak district in that time – still in the wrong direction.

Q-Club in Brum. Been to so many “last ones” before it closes.

I see it’s back open again…

I managed to avoid all the maths testing in my Further Education PGCE by blagging it (I’m pretty good at maths and teach quite complex acoustics, but didn’t want to bother with the testing) so you might find that it’s easier to get around it in FE – it’s worth noting that some Academy/Free schools might well take people without formal teaching qualifications as well.

I think I would advise doing a qualification either way, whilst mine wasn’t all that, and I loathed doing it, I did learn quite a lot from it.