Had some like that, now MO38's or whatever, basically the shoe version. Same issue too small unless I use some sort of second skin sock.
Good footwear though, they've lasted an age.

Cheers,
I'll look at the weekend – I think I've got the manual etc to go with it. Certainly thinking it's not worth too much if a mint one is £38. Having said that, sat here, I don't think it had any scratches on it – and it has disc mounts.

Cricket
Golf
Nascar

Moved over here 3 years ago.
Can't see me setting foot in the UK ever again to be honest. Life there was OK, but nothing really to go back to. Family that matters that's in the UK seems happy enough to visit me, and skype means that I talk to my Mum more than I used to when living just down the road.
Perth though, that's remote even for Aussies – I liked it to visit, but I think living there may be a bit harder. Think six hour flight to Sydney etc.
Sunshine Coast is good – I get trails out the back door a reasonable train commute to Brisbane and only 10 minutes from the coast. Marvelous.

Cheers.
I'll perhaps put it up on here – assuming there's a sensible international rate someone might want it.
I'll never use it again, so will be looking for fair price only.
Can I ask what you paid on Ebay?

Cheers

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Cool, proper banning. In light of that I'd like to also say that the mods do an excellent job…

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So there's this fella with a parrot. And this parrot swears like a sailor – I mean he's a pistol. He can swear for 5 minutes straight without repeating himself. Trouble is, the guy who owns him is a quiet, conservative type, and this bird's fowl mouth is driving him crazy.

One day, it gets to be too much, so the guy grabs the bird by the throat, shakes him really hard, and yells, "QUIT IT!". But this just makes the bird mad and he swears more than ever. Then the guy gets mad and says, "OK for you!" and locks the bird in a kitchen cabinet. This really aggravates the bird and he claws and scratches, and when the guy finally lets him out, the bird cuts loose with a stream of invective that would make a veteran sailor blush.

At that point, the guy is so mad that he throws the bird into the freezer. For the first few seconds there is a terrible din. The bird kicks and claws and thrashes. Then it suddenly gets_very_quiet.

At first the guy just waits, but then he starts to think that the bird may be hurt. After a couple of minutes of silence, he's so worried that he opens up the freezer door. The bird calmly climbs onto the man's out-stretched arm and says, "Awfully sorry about the trouble I gave you. I'll do my best to improve my vocabulary from now on.".

The man is astounded. He can't understand the transformation that has come over the parrot. Then the parrot says, "By the way, pardon me for asking, but what did the chicken do?".

Either someone's been playing with the horizontal size option (see your settings for that monitor), or, it's FUBAR…

CRTtubes use an electron gun that is 'aimed' at the screen. Obviously this has a vertical and horizontal component. If the horizontal component is on the way out it'll possibly shrink the horizontal picture.
It's the same (but the vertical) issue with rolling screens etc.
A big hit might help it, but might not.
Anyway, more typically, you'll see the picture compress into a single pixel width in a complete failure.
Remember how old tv's used to 'blink' off – scrunching up to a dot in the middle – this was the horizontal and vertical control being turned off whilst electrons still being fired. Wiki explains all..

So how do they ban someone then – ban the nick or via IP? If just the nickname then it's not really a ban then is it???
If I wasn't so British I'd start swearing and abusing to see what would happen.

he needs to quantify eventually – eventually it will, but then eventually it will degrade into the component atoms from whence it came etc etc…

You know you're just going to wheel on out to the local towpath and hassle the local commuters don't you.
Remember to builder's butt is now trendy again…

This is easy – just say "Would you be willing to get naked in front of me?"
If the answer is no, then why would she want to be a life model if she's not comfortable with that, and await the stripping…
If she says yes, well, let us know how you get on.

May backfire with the older one – his pride is dented, but at least one of the other lads will no doubt have a think about whether he wants to be on the receiving end next time I reckon – so job well done.
Had you gone round the next person to come along may have tried to stand up and not thrown the first punch, resulting in something worse.
I'd avoid the path for a few weeks, at least on a nice bike…

Recent 3 year old party: "what's the time mister wolf?" worked really well, and got them running around.

Where I used to work part of the business was as an education sector ISP. This meant that we provided a filtered service. All good, and there was a role for some person to do the filtering.
Seemed like a great job, but folks lasted about six months max due to the fact that all the 'good porn' had gone and that was left to work through filtering was very very wrong stuff indeed.
Might add that a lot was covered in automated filtering. But there was still a need for some poor sod to review and block or not (policy being only show what could be bought in a newspaper, i.e. topless OK).

I think it's a given that Shimano will release something new in 2011, that's not news. And folks wanting the latest will hold on those few months. Early leaked pictures doesn't affect that.
Folks needing kit now will buy now whether they see pics of a new bit of kit or not.
Shame we can't just get over it. And actually I'm more likely to go looking now that I've seen there's some fuss over this, otherwise I wouldn't have thought anything about a thread on 2011 stuff, that's par for course isn't it?

+1 Spongebob. Not seen this series, but watch various hells kitchens etc. Anyway, the guy has anger management issues and is getting positive reinforcement for being like that, so it's going to get worse. Two One fat ladies is the way to go. At least they can use a shotgun.

Raising kids is hard, no doubt about it, and a commitment.
But if there was no reward in it then there would be a lot less kids out there. Not something that you'll understand if you're never going to have them. But one example is Christmas – the first 33 were normal, the last 3 have been ace with two kids.
Another example, fell off the bike a few weeks back, broke nose etc. Anyway, taking the two out in the bike trailer and had a steady stream of "don't fall off your bike Daddy" very cute.
And the one that made me cry – whilst talking to our 3 year old I asked her what her favourite colour was, her answer "The colour of your eyes Daddy". Bless.
Good luck to you when you're older chap, hope your lifestyle suits you once the choice is gone (as I do mine!)

You've got to be seriously good at DH to ride a rig bike like that.
Me, I'm a lard-@rse so would be sat at the top of the hill, out of breath from pushing it to the start, looking like I've bought something way beyond my ability. Oh and I don't like it.

Just last night on my Samsung…
Turned on the PS3 first, then the TV a distant (couple of minutes) second. Once the picture had come up – I was on the correct input – I had the select your output message from the PS3. Sooo, could be as above?
I'd bet on selecting the correct HDMI input for the PS3 on the TV though.

I'm slowly building a bike in bits at the moment, started with a nexus gear/disk rear hub.
Need a horizontal dropout frame (no forks) and a couple of rims and I'm good to go. Would be easy but I'm in Aus, so not much about down here on ebay.

Regularly have folk mowing here at that time. Whilst I don't like it I won't complain, it's too early.
Personally I wouldn't be doing that sort of thing at 6pm, there's plenty of midday time to get stuff done.

@ skid artist. There's no correlation between few sales and lots of torrenting. This is bad regression analysis.
It's like saying "cool look Avatar's doing really well in the cinema so no one will torrent it." I suspect that's not going to be the case.
There's more to be said for financial climate, suitability for big screen, marketing, global releases at the same time, etc etc.
An example of this would be Harry Brown – good film (apparently) but not released in Aus. If I want to watch it and talk about it to friends in the UK I'll need to torrent it.
But, Iron Man, came out everywhere at the same time (I think), and although there's heaps of torrents about for it, it's something that a lot of folk I work with have gone to see, it's just a good film to watch in the cinema. And there's a heap who have bought the blu-ray disk too. That's not even easy to torrent it's so big…

Well, the OP said an alternative to MS Office, so that'll be Open Office.

Use both, through several versions of each. MS Office latest with the ribbon instead of the standard menus is counter intuitive and horrible to use – I use this the most (at work) and it's affected productivity. Otherwise for application integration and data handling (access/excel and porting between all apps) it remains unbeatable.

If you're doing word processing, then Open Office 3.1 (That's the latest isn't it?) is pretty fine. Good for basic spreadsheets too!

Never used Google Docs, but guys at work do and think it's great. I'd say a bit marmite, but all at work hate the stuff…

I thought that Nintendo's model was to make money on the console/device and therefore didn't give two hoots over software protection – yet Sony and MS make it back on the license? Doesn't help the software house much I suppose.
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I do think that torrents got too main stream. It became common place to hear people talking about the latest movie and downloading it before release (in Australia) so not bothering to go and watch it in the cinema. That's coming to a close though since folk have started to get desist emails from their ISPs 😯

I find it hard to get upset over people who download movies and music – it's not like those industries are dying off, movies are grossing as much as ever (Avatar anyone). Hard to get upset when the latest pop-star has to downgrade the level of private jet they fly. And as for the 'small groups are being hammered' scenario, well I'd put it that they either aren't going to be torrented as they're too small, or that extra exposure won't hurt them – their fan base will buy the music proper, and folk who ordinarily wouldn't listen to them will be trying out new (and maybe become a fan).

1. Turn up, a few minutes early, if you're over 5 early then wait offsite.

2. Accept a drink, but only water – have had interviewees who don't then you watch as their mouth gets dryer and dryer. Very amusing….

3. Be honest. It's pretty obvious when someone isn't.

4. Give examples where they ask about experience.

5. In those examples, say I and me, not we and us. We sounds like someone else did it (we'll hire them thanks!).

6. Don't be afraid to decide you don't want the job, it may have been mis-represented by the agent etc. Quite common.

7. Comedy is great, but only if initiated by interviewer, and then only at Gran level.

8. If you're super nervous, take a prop, notepad or similar. You can hide behind it as they do the greet before you get into it. Seriously, having something in your hands will help…

9. Enjoy it – you could be spending more time with these folk than with the GF/Wife/Mag so you need to know you can get on with them.

10. If it goes well, don't be shy about asking to see more of the offices etc. Enthusiasm is great to see.

11. On asking one manager why I was hired instead of a technical person, they pointed out that technical skills can be trained, attitude can't – so have a good attitude and be positive, and even if your skills aren't complete they'll think favorably of you.

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Good luck!

Gordian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot

Netbook is thus becuase it's highly portable, not a feature for your MIL I think.
Having said this, in our recent laptop replacement we went from 15" to 14" widescreen, so a bit smaller, and it's really nice to use whilst sat on the sofa, the old one was just a bit too heavy…
Def go with a laptop though, and then it's a matter of choice and price, those in the UK will give you better pointers there than me.

Not multi-player, but I've been really enjoying Deadspace. Also, Red Faction Guerrilla is amazing to play (though not really much online going on).
Motorstorm Pacific Rift is OK on-line as a racing game, as is GT5 Prologue

+1 (or whatever) for fertilizer bag.

One year we found an old 'American style' fridge, with rounded edges.

Anyway, the door off it was ace and two of us could fit on it no problem. The only issue was being rounded on all edges it used to spin, snow kicking up over the top of the door/sledge as it went.
Looked for it the next year and scratches on the bottom meant it had rusted out…

Happy memories.

How about changing suppliers? – then you get a new company, and a new meter reading. Clean slate and all that…

Smaller than all of these I'm sure, but I run 2.25 Nokian NBX Lites over here in Aus – they're pretty handy in the sand.
But then I probably have low expectations.

Get some chains and padlocks or similar and then chain the back of one to the front of the next and so on.
The ensuing chaos as one idiot tries to move a car and moves the one next to them will last for hours.
Better still, combination locks and then go out for a beer (leaving a camera on).
There's no damage, other than what they cause themselves and the only issue is their time wasted, which is what they were trying to save by not bothering to clear the car park or spread the parking further afield…
Sorted.

I always understood that it was essentially a sine wave, within a larger sine wave and so on.
That means that whilst we're still on our way out of the last ice age (so it's going to get warmer) we may be on a shorter term downward curve.

And, at the moment we're seeing more extremes of weather, hotter/colder/wetter/dryer etc.

Whilst I think that our carbon footprint(tm) may have a bearing, I do think that the wider world of natural gaseous outpourings from livestock and volcanoes etc is far more significant than the continued manufacturing of say Aston Martins.

There's been interesting comments around the fact that hotter = more cloud, which in turn will help cool things.

Personally, I think we don't know what's happening, hotter/colder etc, but that shouldn't excuse abusing the world we live (points at China) in the same as it shouldn't mean we have to revert to feral living.

+1 for District 9, and allegedly a good rip out there too. ;o)
Also, I enjoyed Harry Brown recently (that sounds like a euphemism) not for everyone for sure, but good watching.
Pandorum was good too, but that's if you like sci-fi/horror (I've been playing deadspace on the PS3).

+1 for instinct too, though could have been so much more.

The aerosol thing quite a large bit of publicity at my school when someone decided a fag straight after a lung full was a good idea. I'm sure I don't need to tell you the outcome.

I can imagine it…
"Hey, watch my impression of a dog!"

Surely we all recall Zammo and the just say no campaign. Funny thing was it wasn't say no to a bit of pot, but mainline drugs – actually the only exposure I've ever had to drugs like that was through campaigns to make me more aware of it.
Never saw a 'don't piss around with aerosols' campaign and a few lads at our school were pretty hooked on that. Guess it wasn't so media friendly taking a hit of Mum's BO basher…

+1 Drac

Jim Carey
Ricky Gervais
Steve Martin

All members of The Asylum http://www.imdb.com/company/co0043571/
The worst films ever – excepting those televisual feasts concocted by those above.

Politics – Blair, Major (though couldn't hit a chap in glasses).

Bernie Ecclestone – I'd use feet on him.

Some chaps from school could do with a good shoeing and that's 20 years ago…

A few others, but that'll do for now.

Personally I'd not be busting a gut, but I'd be looking after my customers, not least as if I were to get a similar job, then there'd be every chance I'd want them to continue being my customer… So, build your network outside of work.
Also, I'd not shaft the company that let me go. So often I've seen people hired back quick smart as soon as there's an upturn, equally, there's a bunch of ****ts that we'd never hire again…