I’m going to offer some cycling ones, taken today at the Zolder World cup cyclocross. It’s fair to say the conditions were gopping (technical term) and it was really dark, I struggled to get anything like a decent shutter speed whilst keeping the ISO at something sensible, I was at f2.8 most of the time so lots of shots out of focus.

Rapha Tradition?

The awesome Marrianne Vos

Nys leads Albert

We had an agreement we would just buy stuff for the kids

CaptainFlashheart
Tom, ski just stole all of the win available !

Don’t know the background story, but I suspect he did, combined with the words it’s an incredibly powerful image.

We’ve had the pleasure of spending today with one of my daughters friends who is 7 and is currently going through her second round of chemo’ and she hasn’t stopped all day, kids never cease to amaze me.

Captain’ maybe a little toast to all the kids who are suffering while you’re drinking your posh grape juice?

Sidi go down to a 35 (UK2.5) in ladies (just don’t tell him he’s wearing girls shoes) or a 38 (UK5) in mens.

If the files are the same on the laptop as the desktop, you could sync them using livemesh or similar and backup just one of them (desktop probably)?

Forged notes, get him to provide a bankers draft or pay directly into the account

Agree, I think it could be a type of money laundering scam.

Why would he give you a cash deposit there and then? If he comes to see the van and likes it then he could transfer the money over the minute he got home (or there and then even) rather than carry around a large amount of money. If you don’t receive his transfer then you don’t hold the motor for him. The alternative would be to pay the money into the bank with him present as mentioned above

Of course he could be legit, but I would worry about anyone who would be happy to give me a handful of money for nothing.

[Quote]Nope, not shared. Not that I know anyway…..how would I know ?[/quote]
I can’t remember in 2000, it’s pretty unlikely that it’s though if it doesn’t work in a new workbook.

It is every spreadsheet though even brand new ones and ones that I have successfully pasted hyperlinks on in the past. There has obviously been a global change to the Excel. May need to remove and reload Excel from the discs ?

That’s what I meant here;

Can you do a new install of Excel? A pain I know but it might clear something.

So yeah, give that a try!

One last thing, is the workbook shared? If it is then hyperlinks won’t be created automatically, although I don’t think the Insert Hyperlink options works then either so that’s probably a red herring.

Autocorrect, all boxes are ticked in mine.

Is there a work around? I can’t think of one. As you say it was working and has stopped, so something has changed somewhere, either a setting in Excel or the browser. It’s difficult to really try things because I don’t have 2000 or Chrome to play with.

IMHO if you need to do a lot of links then the HYPERLINK function should be easier to work with, you can directly edit the information in cells rather than the hyperlink and you can use the information for other things if needed.

Can you do a new install of Excel? A pain I know but it might clear something.

Have you switched off autocorrect? I can’t remember how to turn it on or off in 2000 though.

As muddy_bum says have you tried the Hyperlink function;

In cell A1 type the name you want to display, in cell B1 paste the URL, in C1 type =HYPERLINK(B1,A1) if that doesn’t work then your Excel is broken! Note, you could always put the data on a seperate worksheet or hide the columns if you don’t want to see it.

And they started leaking because they are shíte. He didn’t bodge the seals or mess with anything to cause a leak, it’s the brakes at fault.

Were they “shite” before he bled them which was coincidentally the point that they started leaking?

You know for sure that he hasn’t damaged a seal? Did he use any silicone grease on the pistons? Did he use a new seal kit? Did he use new washers on the banjo? Did he scratch the pistons? If all the seals are OK where else can they leak?

Just had a thought, are you using IE or another browser to generate the URL?

If using Safari? it may include the data type in the URL so Excel might get confused.

You could try right click, paste special in excel and select “keep text only” and then convert to a hyperlink?

Not sure how that would explain the fact that it will work one time and not on subsequent attempts though

I can recreate the first problem, that a pasted address doesn’t automatically turn into a hyperlink; but if you double click in the cell and paste the address then hit enter it always turns into a hyperlink.

I can’t recreate the second part of the problem though, I thought it migh be something to do with workbook sharing but that just greys out the hyperlin functions.

All on PC running Excel 2010 BTW

I struggle with long sentences but my thinking is; they are your kids, it’s your money, buy whatever you want you shouldn’t need to justify it to anyone. Some people will think its ridiculous, some won’t even flinch.

As an aside, I remember a few years ago one of Beckhams kids was snapped wearing a $10k watch and everyone was saying how ridiculous it was. I worked out as a percentage of his and my earnings that it was like me buying my little ‘un a new Barbie – it’s all relative.

I would say it’s a grey wagtail, but I think the flash over the eye is white?

NZCol, any room for a little one at your table?

We normally have seafood, scallops or lobster, I think we’re having some goats cheese concoction this year.

you could use the “minute” function to determine if a time ends in 59 minutes;

=IF(MINUTE(B2)=59,C2,””)

where the date is in B2, and the data in C2. The date would need to be a date though, not text.

Sidi dragons size 43 red, that’s what any self respecting wife will be getting their loving husband this year – I’ve dropped enough hints anyway. Failing that probably a crap jumper and some socks.

a few months later she’ll be diagnosed with something nasty, incurable and terminal. She’ll pop off a few days before Xmas so you’ll eternally have mixed feelings about this ‘special’ time of year.
On her deathbed she’ll tell you you’re free and her greatest wish is you will find such love again.
You won’t.

Oh come on, I was trying to give the lad at least something to wish for, a chink of light in the dark, cold and lonely years to come. A hope and purpose for his forthcoming dismal existence and you go and give her bad aids.

On your head be it when he jumps of that railway bridge.

Give up and move on? Have you never watched any chick flicks, it doesn’t work like that at all.

OK, so you’ve been knocked back. What will happen next is this girl will get married to some sleaze bag, who whilst seemingly charming and successful in public, knocks her about a bit and kicks her back doors in. You’ll lose touch and drift apart. You’ll start a new life as a perpetual bachelor; you’ll have lots of nice female friends to go to shows with and you’ll probably share a flat with a slightly odd guy with a provincial accent. You’ll open a craft shop of some type overlooking a café so that you can gaze wistfully through your foppish fringe at the lovers who had a big enough set to ask each other out in less than 20 years of knowing each other.

5 years later, just as you are reaching the point of no return, Pringle sweater draped over the shoulders, taking the dog for walks on Hampstead Heath (you won’t actually have a dog) you will be getting on the tube when you bump into a young lady and knock her books all over the platform. You will both bend down to pick up the books and clash heads, at that moment you realise it’s the girl. You’ll go for a coffee (maybe some crepe action if you’re still into that sort of thing) and she will realise that you are soul mates after all.

The only spanner in the works is her husband, who just happens to be competing in a world championship MMA tournament in a few weeks’ time. You’ll meet some old Japanese guy, do some odd jobs around his garden which turns out to be perfect training for the almost lost art of ‘badger style’ kung fu. You will enter the tournament, you’ll take a bit of a pasting early on but somehow reach the final beating the husband using your new ‘bombers’ technique and run off into the sunset with the girl.

Bookmark this thread and come back in 6 years (7 tops) and say it isn’t so.

People that say axe when they mean ask.

My daughter is one warning away from a beating if she says “uh huh” again when I ask her a question.

irelanst that is ace…

Cheers, it was agood day for sunbeams, low bright sun and the snow making a lot of misty air low down. It’s photoshopped within an inch of it’s life as well!

One from today whilst out with the dog.

Nothing to add to what’s already been said, but can answer the North/South divide question. It’s junction 24 on the M1

See, turn right and you’re in The North, take the wrong turning and you’re in The South

Binners, You need to look through the cockernee specks where everything appears bigger, better, faster in London, as perfectly illustrated in the example provided earlier;

I shit you not he would do 95 down a bumpy windy road through central London, and even faster on the main roads. He seemed to have a way with traffic lights too – they never turn red when he’s driving.

He once did The Roof Gardens (Kensington high street) to Tufnell park in just under/about 15 minutes…. It’s 6 miles lol.

Of course up in the provincial north 6 miles in 15mins would be a pretty rubbish time even on a bike considering it’s only a 24mph average, let alone in a cab doing “95…and even faster”

I prefer to have the spanner and chain whip close so you can squeeze them together, when it does go you have less chance of removing knuckle skin on spokes/cassette.

Here’s ours, it went up at the weekend;

and the mantlepiece;

Young free and single, my first job out of uni was IT support in a large data entry place. The IT department were the only 4 guys in the whole office with 200+ women. We’d often get calls about phones not working and go and find the phone unplugged, the plugs were under the desk so you had to crawl under to plug it back in. If you were lucky you got a quick flash from one of the younger girls, if you were not so lucky it was a face full of badly packed kebab from one of the older ones. There was a rota for use of the ‘stationary’ cupboard. After work drinks were always fun as well. I only worked there for a few months, which was probably for the best or I’d have gotten terminal knob rot.

In a later job, I was trying to get a report done so hid away in my bosses office (he was on holiday). I ended up being the last one in the office and was disturbed by the cleaner opening the office door, I was a bit surprised when I turned round and saw that she was starkers, her “oops I thought you were someone else”, me “err, he’s on holiday”, her “well I’m here now”, I always assumed her nickname was hoover because she was the cleaner!

If the wheels are specc’d for “16mm axle”, would 5/8″ be too big then?

Too small, the bearings would fall off!

If you need a set have a look at these;

http://www.drill-service.co.uk/Product.asp?Parent=220200000000&Tool=366

I would buy a few spares in the more commonly used smaller sizes (I can’t sharpen anything less than 3mm very well)

Assuming the bearings are close to the wheels the principle stress will be shear. You aren’t anywhere close to the max shear stress of any steels, even with stupidly thin wall section on the tube.

So I would use whichever is the easiest for manufacturing, probably ERW or BDMS. Just make sure it is 16mm not 5/8″!

My little un (6) can swear in a few languages, I must admit though that it wasn’t one of my proudest moments when i heard “Ik haat je kankerhoer” – I hate you cancer whore – directed towards her mother

Had an hour progress meeting today with our little uns teacher, in all fairness she has been fantastic, she has progressed more in one term than she did all last year (different school), we’ll give her a nice bottle of bubbly at Christmas and why not, I think shes worth it?

I’m allergic to our cat and dog.

There’s a couple of things which help;

As mentioned don’t let them on the bed
Wooden/tiled floors not carpet
Leather sofas – showing total disregard the STW advice of dog on couch = inevitable face being ripped off a small child.
A vacuum with a HEPA filter – I’ve persuaded the wife that I get worse if I’m in the house during vacuuming / dusting which is the only positive
Anti-histamines every day, the Tescos hayfever ones are cheap (damn Tescos strangling those poor hard working pharmaceutical companies).

The only other choice is a walk down the canal with a sack and a brick!

Lost a Sky remote once and turned the house upside down without finding it. It showed up a few months later in the glove compartment of the car.

Bit of a long shot but would the AF still work with a ND filter?

Doesn’t work for me with an 8 or 10 stopper.

When I got my job in the Netherlands I had a telephone interview first followed by Skype then I flew over for a face to face which was more for my benefit than anything because I’d already been offered the job.

I don’t see anything wrong with kids using them either, just download age suitable apps, my girl loves the drawing and colouring stuff as well as angry birds and ninja fruit!

They have introduced ipads into some lessons and homework at her primary school so all the kids had to have one and know how to use it before the start of the year, I can imagine that will be more commonplace in the near future.

All BCF events are here

None of the pictures on display in the Orange workshop are illegal (from the out of focus view you get of them none of them are even pornographic), the same sort of images appear in newspapers every day and in advertising all over Europe in less repressed societies. Are they offensive? No, of course not, they aren’t pictures of drowning kittens they are pretty girls with their tops off. Do you get offended when your wife/girlfriend/partner takes their top off?

Is it right to display them in a workplace? I wouldn’t personally choose to, It’s not to my taste, I prefer something a bit more subtle. But if someone else wants to and nobody else objects then that’s their choice and it’s not hurting anyone is it?

there is a good deal of hypocrisy out there with picture of women being nothing more than a bit of slap-n-tickle fun….unless it’s their daughter/wife/girlfriend on the picture.

My wife did some glamour modelling when I met her, I didn’t know initially even though we’d known each other for some time. When she told me I was a bit uneasy about it at first, probably not helped by the fact that I knew that I was punching well above my weight, but it was her choice and really there was nothing on display that you wouldn’t see at the beach.

She never felt grubby, dirty, slutty, exploited, degraded by or ashamed of what she did, and really why should she? She is an intelligent, confident, beautiful woman that just happened to be paid to get her kit off and pose for some pictures. Maybe the people who think those things need to consider why they think that way and how does a human body offend them so much?

Anyway to answer the usual questions, 32D and there are plenty already on the internet :wink: