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On Linux systems that key combo switches desktops - which I think is slightly more useful!

Yes, and it says Bayer on the box. In the case of the box in the picture it used to say Hewlett-Packard.

According to the early editions he has now been reunited with his brain. My question is why this took so many years?

Amazing, you're very nearly right Pete! Toffee for sure, but it was more local than Sharps - Welch's Toffee. Were they just down the road from City Road in Byker? If so not a too difficult sell for the TTTV ad rep. Maybe the business association was even closer, enabling them to secure the "sweet spot"? I recall that I used to go to school with a cousin of the proprietary family, though I couldn't class him as a friend as he was in a different year, and memorable for being disabled and getting around everywhere on a tricycle - which he did at considerable speed. I think that actress Denise Welch could possibly be related too. I used to be able to recall the second ad too. If only it had been ten years ago... but I've now forgotten. Of course this wasn't just the first TV ad. in the region, it was the first broadcast ad. of any description. The only broadcast ads. prior to that came from Radio Luxembourg; pirate broadcasting was unheard of! Your recollection of the schedule is better than mine though. All I can remember is the opening sequence of Robin Hood; probably after being bored by the opening ceremony bit. Anyway that is now documented in more than one place - including here: http://www.transdiff.../firstnight.php 10-4 ----------------------- Update: Further East than Byker it seems, and the only reference to location I can find on the web (and very few references to the sweets even!) - together with an oh dear! There have been toffee factories at Byker in the past by the looks of it; hence my likely source of confusion.

Wasn't Country Life a rather up-market mag? There are websites devoted to this sort of thing. A few weeks back I surfed onto one which has been trying to establish for yonks the insurance company from way back in the 50's 60's that advertised "get the strength of the ... around you" with accompanying knock on the wall of a plywood castle. Everyone of an age can remember the ad but no one can rememeber the (long taken over) insurance outfit that produced the ad. There's a lesson in marketing in this! Anyway, can anyone remember what the very first TV advert in the North East was? I can remember it on Tyne Tees on the opening night in on January 15th 1959 . This moment has probably passed into the mists of history. So doubtless - like many other things - it's up to Bedlington.co.uk to record the detail for posterity I was in the privileged position (as a child) to have a bang up-to-date Ekco TV in our sitting room with a tuner that could receive channel 8. It was a non-event for most of Bedlington (including my parents, as I witnessed it alone) as most of the then TV's had to be converted for ITV with "turret tuners" and converter boxes in the subsequent months and years. So the TTTV adience on the opening evening must have been quite small. But shortly after that the growth of households with TV in our town was explosive.

Can I remind peeps that the slogan will be used to promote the website and not to trash the Town! I could remind some that even animals have the common sense not to Thomas Crapper in their own back yard.

Apparently we all live in Woodhorn! This is the missing key to our tight-knit but friendly Town. Bedlington's traditional market gets a brief mention; obviously because we all know that it goes back aeons in ye olde Tesco car park - watch out for the livestock as you drive in to pay the traditional parking toll. Ashington is hot-linked but Bedders is not. No more than we've come to expect. Worth begging for a traditional tight-knit but friendly link? I think probably not; will anyone but guide book author/publishers working out of Bombay read this anyway?

Thank you; I'm Passionate About Ones... :lol:

One Town - One Aim - One Voice

Its just a fad! Will go the same way as that Internet thing did.

OK, nominations are open for our slogan contest. The slogan chosen by the judges will appear around the place with more sickening frequency than Passionate About W......herever The star prize is to see your slogan with more sickening frequency than one dreamed up by some overpaid firm of consultants leeching on the public purse, and - almost without saying - your place in posterity. Runners-up will each receive a limitless supply of posters, a large pail of glue, a paint roller, an ample supply of bus tokens to get to Ashington (and back), and a black balaclava. Note: Local hoodies will not be deemed to require the last-mentioned accoutrement. Sloganise away...

Changed my mind, now I quite like it the way it was! It seems to have change since last night. Did you do anything? The text entry box extended well beyond the window (but was clipped of course) so entering anything more than a couple of words was working sort of blind. To add my longish tweet it had to prepare it elsewhere and paste. Even then I missed a few times and got some words of the pre-edit left in place. Update: Yes you have change it! But the text entry box could usefully take a 20% length increase. Works better now. Think the title should be changed to something more readily identifiable with its function though. It's OK once you find it and know where it is for the next time, but I expect it's more learning than the average poster will want to do. They will probably dismiss the info column never to restore it again - except by serendipitous accident. BTW I notice a considerable speed/usability increase on this early netbook. Didn't expect that!

Aaww.. I'd already decided to re-write the forum descriptions to give them a cleaner look! Maybe a bug (or more likely an unset setting): When I hit the vote post up/down I get a "Action failed: You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day" modal dialogue box. Maybe the New Posts should feature before the Top Posters? We know who they are likely to be anyway! All in all looking good P.S. Just discovered the tweet box doesn't side-scroll properly making input/editing VERY difficult. Using Fry-a-fox of course The disposable status column feature works very well - more sites should have this sort of thing to get rid of their clutter on netbook screens. Took me a short while to find the restore button though. It's not quite as obvious as the dispose one.

Like.. removing three layers of cloud? Seriously, that's an awfully clear sky for Bedders!

You've heard of the Mexican Wave? Well, this is a Mediterranean Wave! = The sort of cloud that gliders use.

Answer will be posted next week together with the names of the luck winners.

Headline: MODERATOR IN OFF-TOPIC MODERATION SHOCK Anyway, it is spot on in the case of my pension:

A few trickling out now, but without the GPS and TV (or HSDPA) modules it's about £100 overpriced. So you won't be seeing an in-depth review of it here for a good while. The T101 has been put back for at least a further 2 to 3 months and most probably to pre-Christmas. By that time there will likely be some serious competition. Meanwhile the Gigabyte M912X has been reduced to £359, and if it didn't have the power hungry and under-performing Intel 945GSE chipset I'd buy one tomorrow. Oh for a touchscreen netbook with Nvidia Ion graphics! That might be a tad power hungry too, but at least it would have commensurate graphics performance. So, despite netbooks everywhere now, there's still no obvious best choice machine.

Churchill was actually a Liberal for a good deal of his career. Even as a Conservative he didn't embrace right-wing market economics to anything like the same extent as NuLabour. How about this from the Wikipedia entry: As President of the Board of Trade he joined newly appointed Chancellor Lloyd George in opposing First Lord of the Admiralty, Reginald McKenna's proposed huge expenditure for the construction of Navy dreadnought warships, and in supporting the Liberal reforms.[56] In 1908, he introduced the Trade Boards Bill setting up the first minimum wages in Britain,[57] In 1909, he set up Labour Exchanges to help unemployed people find work.[58] He helped draft the first unemployment pension legislation, the National Insurance Act of 1911.[59] Churchill in 1904. Churchill also assisted in passing the People's Budget[60] becoming President of the Budget League, an organisation set up in response to the opposition's "Budget Protest League".[61] The budget included the introduction of new taxes on the wealthy to allow for the creation of new social welfare programmes. Does that sound like the "pro-wealthy, warmonger" image created by Labour politicians, and spoon-fed to the local electorate (and probably you too as an impressionable youngster)? Wow! Is "waster's locked into social housing" a genuinely held view? Please expand. Isn't that what all parties do? It's several of the things that are uniting all major parties that are the big voter turn-offs. I don't think that anyone thinks it's a bad idea. For the sake of everyone - especially ethnic communities that don't want to fully integrate - it's an excellent idea. In fact at the present state of things it's the only idea. Pity that the BNP can easily pass it off as their idea, when four decades ago when a very respectable politician mentioned it he was shouted down and accused of being a racist. What he was talking about was the then Labour government's Race Relations Act - the recipe for our present disaster. Seems we never learn that when the bill for do-gooder's social engineering is presented few if any of them are still around to help society pay it. Fact: Poles flew Spits during the war. Maybe a deliberate ploy to illustrate that they are not anti-immigration (or a more sinister one to point up that they are only against certain immigration)? Read into it what you will, but don't underestimate their intelligence. Give them time. Yes, but enough of NuLabour, aren't we discussing the BNP? I suspect that if you brought back many of the people who fought (and died) on D Day they would be shocked at the state of our Country. They wouldn't brand the BNP views with the same fascist label as we do today, and very many of them might easily be persuaded to vote for them. A mistake to take things out of their time context. It leads to all sorts of absurdities - like banning golliwogs, and apologising for what your forbears did, as if those people weren't acting decently and honourably by all standards that then applied. Been plenty of rule-rewriting going on in recent years. Problem is that those rules were never written down in the first place and the amendments to them similarly go undocumented. Needs a new term coined, like say precedent slippage. No votes in that. Those that "illegally" download will do it and those that don't won't. Any political pary knows better than to touch this one with a bargepole. They might preside over daft concepts like software patents, but it's more expedient to play it all low-key.

Par for the course where our town is concerned! What decades of socialist dependency culture has inbred. Keep whining on for assistance/grants/special-treatment. Build a bigger better administration to provide the much needed jobs sharing whatever hand-outs come our way. Don't try anything off your own bat, because in the apathetic attitude we've carefully nurtured it will probably fail. A self-fulfilling state of affairs. Sooner or later the message gets trough to the enterprising that in order to get on in life you have to leave. Countless thousands have, leaving only the compost that socialism feeds on. When that socialism is fully discredited - even within your own ranks - then take refuge in carefully spun Alice-in-Wonderland capitalism. But whatever you do don't explain the very necessary change of direction to your power base (as if they would understand it anyway) - they have always voted for you because you are for the workers! All you need is a very few carefully placed political dinosaurs who will square the circle for you. Do I sound depressed? Well, it's all the fault of [insert target of the month, but never me!] and someone had better do something about it, or I will be voting BNP!

Does this mean that news editors will get logged in automatically too? It's a bit of a hassle for them needing two sets of logins. I'm sure they will develop naturally. Best not to impose too much structure and have lots of empty categories. Someone needs to contact advertisers and ask them to move their ads. Is there any mechanism to time-out ads? It would be nice if users could select the display period themselves. Would save a lot of moderator work and stale material. Great stuff! Thanks again on behalf of the membership.

Bursting to try it out and all I get is "ERROR: Incorrect password" - duh!!!

T91 launch again postponed if this article dated yesterday is to be believed. http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/news/255763...een-eee-pc.html "£449 inc VAT when it's released in July" This was the proposed launch date of the 10" T101 version. Still remains to be seen if it has GPS and TV in this configuration. If it hasn't it's too expensive, and will likely only appeal to people who buy overpriced gear like macbooks until the discounts kick in! Some more good deals coming though as it's rumoured that Asus will kill off virtually all the existing eee netbook models later in the year. The PC900a is already selling below £200 delivered to the door price in 16GB configuration.

Now there's only one person in the UK who doesn't understand this simple fact. He can't hold the Country hostage to his ambitions of power any longer. His best friends should tell him what everyone else knows. Thing is no one wants to take the wrap for the mess they've created. And they can't get away with fobbing us off with yet another unelected PM, or duck their leadership issue yet again. So they're in a corner of their own making. Him going means them going. We need far more than reforms to the Westminster gravy train, we need some real democracy where a desperate government can't cling on in their own interest and not the Country's, and we need some real local democracy. The dinosaurs must perish - or at least (the British way) be retired on vastly overgenerous unearned pensions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPKzoimYMw...player_embedded As well as run of the mill things like HSDPA and TV Out it's got a microSDHC slot to boost the flash memory (32Gb and takes 32GB cards), and... and... wait for it... the most revolutionary thing is... you can change the battery yourself!