I was lucky enough to have a very understanding form tutor who arranged for me to mess around in his science lab during assembly. Equally, the religious studies teacher was a slight crackpot and we didn’t learn anything about religion either, which was great.

Hate the idea of “compulsory worship”, and when I have kids they’re not being to be indoctrinated in this way.

Lane near us about a mile long. It’s dodgy at the best of times. I came home last week to find a sign warning of a pothole at each end but no indication where the pothole is.

Turned out to be under a puddle. Nearly lost the car down it but instead rewarded with a scraping noise from something that sounded both important and expensive.

Check your brake lights. The switch on the pedal breaks quite easily and the car gets confused if it thinks you’re driving without using the brakes.

Anything but Belkin should be fine.

I’ve driven down that road in Goodyear, AZ. Don’t remember the squished rat/mongoose/thing.

Still 8 inches here in Devon.

Our student house in Leeds had bailiffs come a-calling a couple of times for the previous residents. Strongly recommend that if they come again and are even the slightest bit intimidating that you call the police immediately via 999.

I’m sorry, but if it had been me I’d have walked out when the manager refused to look at the suggestions I’d brought in. Don’t pay for any of that work, looks to be a complete rip-off.

Google Latitude:
http://www.google.com/mobile/default/latitude.html

It’s awesome isn’t it? Even more fun when it starts knowing again.

The Planet offer excellent deals and rock solid* service.

In terms of design, the tutorial offered by this website allows you to create a stunning, but individual, design. See below:

Link: http://psdtuts.com/tutorials/interface-tutorials/create-a-sleek-high-end-web-design-from-scratch/

* One of their data centres exploded last year. They gave me two months hosting free in compensation.

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QNH isn’t sea level pressure, it’s the QFE mathematically corrected to sea level assuming standard conditions. QNF is the QFE mathematically reduced using actual conditions.
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No kids deserve to lose their mum like this. Doesn’t matter who she is.

3 inches here in Oxford, just bleedin’ perfect for my drive back to Devon.

19, screwed up on the metaphor.

Google Earth is your best bet.

If you use a barometric altimeter you can get the local pressure setting from a nearby airport. Remember that at your elevation and considering the colder weather you might want to subtract about 20 feet.

Not a chance, sorry. Had the misfortune of riding in one and it wouldn’t take two flight bags in the boot, so a bike is out of the question.

hora – limp home WOULDN’T turn the car off, clue’s kinda in the name…

I’d put my money on either the camshaft or crankshaft sensor. If the computer doesn’t know what the engine’s doing, it’ll cut off fuel. Worth posting on Honest John’s website (sound advice) but you need to get any error codes read which might give an instant diagnosis.

Did it per chance happen on the M25? There’s a point near a junction on the western side of the loop that causes older Range Rovers to just cut out and stop, radio transmission messes with the immobiliser or something. Happened to my dad both ways.

Strongly disagree re: Amazon. Design has changed little in the past 10 years, stuff is in multiple categories and the search is weak. And try doing something specific to your account settings. Each bit is tacked on by a different drunken stoned developer.

Doesn’t stop me buying from them, though.

Personally, I consider the BBC News website to be the easiest to navigate.

Don’t worry, I have it on good authority that they’re working on a new system that stabs you in the eye with a sharp object if you try watching Doctor Who without a licence.

I would have thought that if you’re catching a cold, your immune system is fairly good. After all, symptoms of a cold are the indications of a fight put up by your body.

If the common cold rapidly deteriorated into pneumonia or something, then it’s time to get worried. ;-)

£200 quid gets you a hard disk CCTV system and a couple of wireless cameras. We set it up at my gran’s old house while it was empty.

I went up there after a couple of weeks to look at the recording (now that’s boring, even at 64x), and on the first day two very dodgy looking women started poking around the house.

One of them spotted the camera in the window (along with the very conspicuous box next to it), and after a panicked conversation with her chum they both scarpered.

Nothing in Oxford.

Science Museum, Planetarium, London Eye all recommended. Not so much the Transport Museum which felt more like a Ken Livingstone propaganda machine than a museum.

Science Museum, Planetarium, London Eye all recommended. Not so much the Transport Museum which felt more like a Ken Livingstone propaganda machine than a museum.

It’s a sort of snowy drizzle here in Oxford. Wish I still lived in Leeds.

Those soft-close drawers you get in kitchens. My parents threatened me with death if I dared to take one apart to find out how it worked last time I visited.

Of course, they keep very quiet about the fact that the most common source of hydrogen gas comes from *drum roll* burning fossil fuels.

/slaps forehead/

There’s no real issue about covering up for women. Like Turkey, wearing of the burka is banned and I can’t remember a woman even wearing a headscarf. It is a Muslim country, obviously, but it’s not the nasty-style Islam we get here.

Nothing in Oxford yet. I must generate an anti-snow field.

Johnny Cash – “If you could read my mind.”

Much better than t’original.

Yep, my brother used to work out there. Only been to Tunis and the Carthage area, though.

I stayed near a small town called Marsa. If you need your hand holding when you’re on holiday it’s probably not for you since very little English is spoken. You can (just) get by in French, and I learnt the Arabic equivalent of “Bugger off” for the street vendors.

I don’t think you’d want to go for longer than a week. Temp was about 30C in September when I went but started dropping rapidly. In fact the drop in sea temperature was noticeable over the course of 7 days.

Definitely off the Eurozone, definitely not on the beaten track but great fun. Driving is erratic but not particularly dangerous. Food is VERY nice, since any seafood is fresh and there’s a lot of Italian influence.

Oxford 31/01/09 23:40:06 – No snow.
Oxford 31/01/09 23:40:19 – No snow.
Oxford 31/01/09 23:40:54 – No snow.
Oxford 31/01/09 23:41:11 – It’s snowin- oh, wait, no it’s not.
Oxford 31/01/09 23:41:38 – No snow.
Oxford 31/01/09 23:42:02 – No snow.
Oxford 31/01/09 23:42:23 – No snow.
Oxford 31/01/09 23:42:48 – No snow.
etc.

thisisnotasppon – yeah, totally agree if in Wales but this was in SE England.

I hate to say it but knowing a couple of people whose second langauge is English after Welsh, I’d suggest you get as far away as you can and treat Welsh as a novelty.

Makes me sound incredibly bigoted and probably racist too, but it’s screwed these people over badly. As an example, if they’re together with a 3rd person who doesn’t speak Welsh, they’ll chat to each other in Welsh regardless. When pressed, they consider this absolutely normal and it’s how they were brought up (from different parts of Wales, too).

I discovered a few weeks ago that if you rip the audio description track from a DVD you get a cheap and extremely effective audiobook. It’s the one they use for blind people, but it has all the speech, music, sound effects etc with someone telling you what’s going on.

I reckon a good 9.5. I’m approaching the end of a 2 year airline pilot training programme with virtually zero job prospects and a wallet lighter of 75k. To stay current on type is probably a minimum of £10k/year from now on.

I do have a physics degree from Leeds but it’s a bit useless since any job over minimum wage will require a level of commitment I can’t give, since it’s patently obvious that I’ll piss off once a job in an airline becomes available.

If it’s part of the ring main then it’ll need sorting. For the time being, unless you can ascertain that the ring isn’t damaged I’d limit the load on any other sockets connected to it.

If you’re really lazy and it’s a spur, then you could cut it a convenient point and remove the socket it connects to, but bearing in mind it’s a kitchen you’re going to have to pay for an electrician anyway.

Cheapest one you can find.

My grandad had a heart attack due to the stress, looking forward to claiming.