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I'm not for licking! I'm for handing out to people to prove you've "been there".

http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/feat...l5_2009_dgl.jpg If you trace back the hot air trail you can see the cloud of smoke around the launcher. If a commercial organisation can snap this when the don't know exactly when it's going to happen then imagine what the military is currently up to! http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/feat...29_2009_dgl.jpg Long blue building on the left obviously the assembly shed, and the launch pad in the middle. Why don't the sell advertising space on the roof?

Please support the Town Calendar by posting any events (both Public & By-Invitation) you know about in the area on it. It's not just there to consume, it's there to add to yourself. You know it makes sense that there's a place that everyone in the community can share without having to waste time searching all over the place, and then likely miss out in the process.

The events criteria is where Bedlington(shire) people would find something to do within easy travelling distance. Not as far as the big smoke but maybe as far a Gosforth Park. And... if you can run 10K then you'd probably not complain about having to go as far as Creswell to do it. News criteria is between the Blyth and Wansbeck and maybe a tad further. Blagdon fits that too. Thanks for the compliment Tony, there's more coming.

So you'd have bailed out Northern Rock? Economists (real ones, not part time polytechnic lecturers like Gordo) warned what would happen. It's called moral hazard in the trade. You can't both let the banks go bust and nationalise them! What we have now is the worst possible of all worlds. They should have all gone down the pan with their shareholders. And I say that as a bank shareholder who sold all his bank (and Northern Rock) shares some years back when he sensed this coming! Allowing the banks to fail and protecting both depositors (and the economy) are two entirely different issues. Here the Lib Dems seem much closer to reality than either of the two major parties. The recession is the result of a government (principally the UK one) allowing the banks to create too much debt by ludicrously low marginal reserve requirements. Decades back we had government controls on credit to stop this happening at the consumer level. As I said earlier: you can't borrow yourself out of debt. No, the recession isn't over. Investors call it deadcat bounce - where people are foolishly lured back into a falling market. Future tax receipts have been pledged to cover previous foolish borrowings. And those future tax reciepts probably won't come in anything like as fast as they'd like you to believe. There's nothing left for future investment in the creation of real wealth and real improvements in living standards. We're in the state of a third world country burdened by debt and with a clueless government who can think of nothing but retaining power. None of the fundamental problems have been addressed. They will come back again and again. Bust and Bust to replace Boom and Bust!

Don't look now but nobody is running the Country, and hasn't been for several years. And... I'm sure even you could make less of an a&** of it than Gordo! I wouldn't have bailed out Northern Rock - which was what precipitated the collapse, and sent all the wrong messages to other financial institutions. And.. we wouldn't now be up to our eyes in debt for generations to come! I've done more than Gordon has in running a successful business for decades, and there are a another thousand people in our town alone who are more competent to "run the country" than the incompetents who are currently in power!

At your local book store now: the Book of the Post:

Thanks; pity you can't buy one in Bedders! Think I'll add one of these to the order: I've got a lady that needs fixing, but can't quite decide on the colour.

Simple one: Where can I buy a spectacle repair kit? Either on the web or at a B&M shop (in Bedlington - if only!). I've now got two pairs of quality glasses that a screw has dropped out of the hinge. One is a pair of expensive Ray-Bans This must happen to just about everybody at one time or another; so why aren't there kits of the little screws and a suitable screwdriver in every other shop? Would cost next to nothing to make in quantity, and when you need your glasses you will pay whatever it takes!

Say it isn't true!

Plenty of opportunities to try your own ideas out coming soon monsta. I look forward to seeing the results!

Consider it a work in progress.

If I had an uncommitted pound for every time I've heard the phrase "due to be" in connection with the town... Clive's Clogs on Credit closing!! Ol' Mr J will be rotating in his casket. I'd be made to trot along there for a new pair of something in the 1950's, and a quality British product they were. Last purchase would be some time in the 1980's when my wife brought some in to try on. A regular customer, at least once a decade - on average. Clive will be nearing retirement, if not already retired, and - like may other Bedlington business families - there seems to be no future in the place. An attitude strongly promoted by stay-in-power (by sucking up to ignorance and stupidity) local politicians. Still, we've now got the "due to be" built Enterprise Center (with its vast 6 car park) to regenerate local enterprise. And, failing that, the new Market Place will be a great place to busk in.

I don't understand why anyone would want to comment on something they are not even interested in. If flea-power machines you can stick in your pocket don't interest you then post on something that does. Anyway, it's not a 10" it's an 8.9". I've been using this size of screen for years and my tired old eyes find it more than adequate for most work. Yes, I do use a wide-screen 22" monitor too, and I also use a 4" screen about 20 times a day as well. It's horses for courses. The current 8.9" machine is too heavy to pocket, it's not touch screen, it hasn't got 3G networking or Bluetooth built in, and the GPS on my 4" gismo is useful. So useful that a one built in to a bigger screen that could be pocketed or handbaged would be great. I often use the 8.9 machine just to get away from the desk, and it's sitting at the desk that gives me a sore neck (I have an upper spine problem that's not treatable). So quite the opposite of what you assume there. What will make or break the T91 for me is whether the screen is sunlight readable. This might not matter a scrap to you but it makes all the difference to how and where I use a computer. Even if the T91's sunlight screen readability is a deal-breaker for me this is the way computers are going - see your own post on the demise of the mouse. I'd like to hear about your electricity bill soaring boxes, but excuse me if I can no longer find a use for this class of machine. They are obviously still right for (an ever decreasing number of) users.

http://blip.tv/play/Ae3eUIzSQQ There's a preview of the interface here: I think the disappointment about the two cell un-removable battery might be a bit premature. The Z series CPU is even less power-hungry than the usual Atom N270, and, even more significantly, out goes the usual netbook's Intel 945GSE power-hungry graphics chip, to be replaced by something far more suitable to a lightweight battery operated device. Should deliver better graphics performance than the run-of-the-mill netbook whilst having far lower battery drain. An affordable Sony P11Z with nicer features, shipping next month, maybe.

One thing we wouldn't be able to complain about is that the head of government had never stood for democratic election to his position! BTW have you ever been to Zimbabwe? And, since when was monsta an apologist for Global Gordon? Have you been attending the Mandelson School of Spin - St Benet Biscop Precinct,,,,,,, recently?

Whatever, a star pupil at Ashley's S.O.M - apparently! http://www.ashleysschoolofmotoring.co.uk/s...s__gallery.html You could always ring FREEPHONE 0800 046 7437 / MOBILE 07989416737 / OFFICE 01670 821038 to find out. A Bedlington business that doesn't seen to have a physical address. Curious. Anyway, seems to have an opening for a web-designer - anyone?

Interesting fuel price widget, but needs updating now as last ring-around appears to have been circa 20th January. http://www.whatgas.com/?LatLng=55.13054,-1.59296&Zoom=12 Still, you can update the data yourself.

Pity their "high standards" don't extend to proofreading their own copy.

Tax up yet again today, and another tax rise due next April. This is help in a recession?! Increases not shown on this graph yet. The government spin is that "in real terms" it's less than in 1997, but people don't get paid "in real terms" they get paid in real money! The drop in VAT is due to be reversed in December. Any reduction in shop prices has already been swallowed up in inflation due to the fall of Sterling. So the rises this December will put us back in a worse position than when this relief was given.

:lol: What interests me is the audience. Do they pay real money, or are they just there to see the inevitable scrap? More artistic value in wall graffiti and it's probably less abusive.

You want an explanation?! Let me dispel the "ugly rumour" that I know what the ^$%^%$ is going on here. Anyway, you know what happened when Manchester overreached themselves and made the B too big. It all ended in tears and recriminations (coincidentally about lack of support). I say let bedlington's own Thomas Heatherwick do his own thing. It won't cost a couple of Mill either!