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LOL - My FIRST Lenny phone actually, but not my first Lenny gismo by any count. And, it's instead of a cute little Alcatel droid that's my top-pocket communications workhorse, and certainly not to replace the Note 3. Latest toy is a http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-ME180A-MeMo-inch-Tablet/dp/B00G6G08YU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406996724&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+me180a but I only paid a tad over £90 brand new including courier delivery on amazon.it, so it was a no brainier. It may have been a pricing error as they quickly hiked the price Last month's Asus ME172V (impulse chain store purchase) was a bit disappointing so I moved it straight on, but the 8" ME180A is absolutely great, and I wouldn't buy another 7" tab of any make now. I was actually after the Intel powered ME181, but they are still a bit pricey, and the chip is an ageing 32nm one - with 2GB of RAM it would get me more excited. With the ME180A I thought I'd bought an AMD powered x86 device, because some twit reviewer on the Internet billed it as such. But in fact it's a quad core Rockchips ARM CPU that comes in at over 20K on the Antutu benchmark, so no regrets there. Particularly wowing is that it has built-in Miracast (WiDi), and pairs nicely with the Netgear Push2TV. Great display too! Even at £130 'ish it's a really good buy. An extra 64GB of Kingston flash cost £25 and bumped it to 72GB - can't do that with a (Asus made) Google Nexus! Just had a play with a Sammy http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Galaxy-8-4-inch-Tablet-Bronze/dp/B00KLED6Q0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1406997295&sr=8-2&keywords=samsung+tab+s, and wow, is this spectacular? Completely wipes the floor with an iPad in every respect. When I see one around the £200 mark it's a sure buy!!

Hmm.. isn't politics telling people what they want to hear - then when they give you some power you do what you want to do? Its called representative democracy, obviously because you represent it as democracy, whilst it's certainly not! In fact this is one of the things we discussed at the party conference. / I'm sure you will find a full answer in our manifesto when it's published. / But that's not really the question - the real question is... / We need a full and frank public debate about this important issue [after which we will do absolutely nothing, again!]* *delete as appropriate P.S. Vote UKIP - the REAL class war is about to begin! http://www.ukip.org/ukip_scores_by_election_win_in_miliband_s_backyard

...tells you which application/window the unwanted sound has started coming from. Many times recently I've had to chase around closing stuff because something I never consciously selected has started playing - somewhere!

I can think of some slightly more cutting answers for people self-centred enough to be asking some of the questions in the FAQ. Unfortunately they wouldn't add suitable dignity to the occasion! Update: Some rather remarkable and evocative photos of the conflict sites here: http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-28461026 I admit to pinching one for my desktop.

Well.. sure makes a change from those why can't I post emails and PMs! The cleaners will be around. Welcome anyway.

I think that's shorthand for their community centre and library not getting the chop. The old old story. When the people who've mindlessly voted labour all their lives - just because their parents and grandparents did - start using their noddles and voting Labour out just now and then, then they won't be taken for granted and things will start to happen. A vote for UKIP would be a good start, and have the further advantage of making Mliband face up to one of the most important issues of the day instead of constantly ducking it. Just one defeat for Labour is all it will take to transform this place. Whatever party gets in the next time around they will all be listening instead of taking us for granted - either as no-hopers to the Tories, or always and forever in-the-bag to Labour. Of course it would also help if those who use Bedders as a dormitory, and live the rest of their lives elsewhere, actually got off their backsides and voted! Maybe we should picket all main roads out of town in the morning?

I notice this morning that following a pushed Samsung update to my Note 3 that the compass icon had gone from the pull-down control bar. It's been replaced by a Google maps "pin". It seems that Android has taken full control of the GPS power and full user emphasis is now on "Location Services". This is in line with what certain GPS based apps have been hinting for a short while now - announcing that Location Services are off when I'd simply thought I'd tuned off temporarily unneeded GPS hardware to conserve battery. We'll see how this one works out, but I'm uneasy about what looks like a move towards a operating system for ignorant tecnophobes like iOS. (idiots Operating System - just thought I'd sneak in this week's round of "Apple bashing" there Brett! ) I want to be able to turn off the GPS hardware when I don't see a need for it power-wise, and control Location services when I don't see the need for it on personal grounds. If Android is going the Big-Brother route I'm going to migrate to something else. Roll on *real* Linux phones; there's a big tech-savvy market out there, so what is stopping you smartphone manufacturers?

Really Adam! This guy just about built the telephone answering machine industry single-handedly! http://www.imdb.com/news/ni57512961/ Not your average tinsel town resident then?

No urban myth; lifetime guaranteed first person testimony that. And, none of the kiddies involved were poor; all adequately fed from Tory (and enlightened Socialist) homes. There may have been an odd few scholarship kids from poor backgrounds, but exactly who was a state secret. You know, the sort of thing those evil Tories do simply to salve their consciences. Interesting proggie tonight on Radio 4 concerning this disadvantaged jewish kid from a South Wales mining community who got to grammar school. I thought the best bit was when he came up against posh, privileged, public school type across the dispatch box in the HoC over - of all things - education policy. That's the same posh public school twit who introduced tuition fees for higher education - after promising not to! I will leave you to fill in the names.

http://hiddenfromgoogle.com/ The Streisand Effect at work again - they never learn! Maybe it should be renamed "The right to be remembered, again, and again, and..."

Deffo an oversell of Ashington there! Would Mr L get so animated if it was beautiful down-town Bedlington getting slagged off? Answers on a postcard to: 94 Station Road, Ashington, Northumberland, NE63 8RN.

Hmmm... could have tried harder I think. Though the "anti-business attitude" that have always been pervasive from you-know-who you-know-where you-know-what-party has always been a factor. Despite this there's a lot of upside to locating in our town, so let's not be too pessimistic. We wish her well anyway, and we just might learn something by following the progress here.

If that's a cost-cutting measure what were the wasted costs before the cost-cutting measure? I was watching a proggy the other night about this mouthy fat bitc... sorry, public service boss, building a million pound dream home. How could she possibly be affording to spend like that with no mortgage, I though. And she hadn't even been made redundant - yet! Sadly, under Labour this sort of agreement was the norm. Things, can only get better - well they did, for Tony's cronies! Onward and upwards the people's army!

Unite are telling Milipede that it's undemocratic not to be matching Camberlin's promise to hold an in/out referendum on the EU. Well we all knew that, and Milipede too, but it's nice to hear it spelled out in terms even the Labour front bench can't duck. Other unions might join in this call - well, let's all hope this democracy thing is catching. Though one party democracy is unlikely to catch up with is the Liberal "Democrats". (The party of in - the wrong!) They admit they were dead wrong about the UK adopting the Euro; they admit that the EU needs drastic reform; they admit that Junker was a disastrous choice for the UK, but somehow we all need to believe in Santa Claus because it will all come right in the end. Yes, you'll see; they can't be wrong all the time, can they? Whenever some organisation includes democrat in its name you can bet that's because it is anything but! How about some honesty LDs? You fear the electorate; be honest, change your name to The Liberal Autocrats! And... for anyone still saying that UKIP is a waste of space: do you really think there'd be such an outbreak of honesty in public life if UKIP hadn't being doing so amazingly well in the polls? Onward and upward The People's Army! The question at the end is the best bit. The tired old men of Europe just don't get it; and Dave wants you to believe that he can change their one-track minds.

Does the Daily Express read Bedlington.co.uk? You could be forgiven for thinking so. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/485441/Tory-Jeremy-Paxman-blasts-Newsnight-as-made-by-13-year-olds Right on cue this morning, Russell Brand and all! BTW Maggie he wasn't "winding up" Paxo. Paxo was genuinely surprised that someone so superficially intelligent could spout such naive nonsense. And there I think you have Brand in one word: superficial. It's negligible because there are people like you Brandie who reinforce the delusion by urging people not to exercise their right to truly representative government. You use "Big Businesses" as a scapegoat. Big Business listens intensely to its consumers (and doesn't have a vote for the taxes it pays), but the kind of politicos you actively aid by your misdirection are exactly the same sort of manipulative, media-cheque-banking, sods you are! It's the organ-grinder not the monkey - dummy!

The same place as the will to vote out the status quo! But there is ever-increasing hope... http://www.ukip.org/former_labour_party_press_officer_richard_bingley_joins_ukip

My Nazi father would be so proud Herr Fuhrer - err.. Chancellor! Yes, the British and a few disorganised rabbles stand in our way, but this time it will all be different. Wrong footing Camberlin with that worthless promise was a masterstroke!

He's actually a pretty empty vessel Maggie. On the Newsnight interview he was exposed as just that: Anyway, now that Paxo has been released from his requirement to be impartial and "non-controversial" it's quite interesting what he says: I think maybe he includes Russell Brand amongst those 13-year-olds. He went on to say: Does this mean UKIP is about to recruit another parliamentary candidate?

One third pint bottles. Actually I tell a lie about one particular school in Gosforth; the unused stuff quickly disappeared into the kitchens to be used in the school dinners, which were - of course - billed to parents!

Ah, how soon they forget! No mention there that Scargill had already brought down the Heath government, had failed in his attempt to cause another national strike - this was his third attempt! Scargill wasn't at all interested in mine closures, else he'd have backed NACODS who insisted on doing underground maintenance to ensure that the pits weren't lost. They very sensibly argued that if they were prevented from doing their work then there was no point in protesting the closures, as the strike would bring about the very thing that Scargill was pretending to oppose. This didn't matter to Arthur; he wanted the next chapter of his Marxist revolution, at whatever cost! No one is trying to "demonise the miners" - demonisation is a socialist thing, a substitute for broadly based fact, and proper analysis. History is history, but it has to be set in historical context, and in the values of its day. That's a thing sadly lacking from socialist rhetoric. The game is to apply modern "enlightened" value to the past. If it were possible to wind the clock way back you'd find that there was fairly broad agreement on how things should and would change. There would be a few extremists on both sides, but the them-and-us thing has been manufactured to suit agendas. No one is disputing that the miners worked hard and that the conditions could and should have been much better, but by the standards of the day they were well paid. Hard economics caught up with that - nothing else! The wages, industral disruption, and social unrest caused by Scargill outran the use of the coal resource to the country. Something had to give! Many miners foresaw this, but local ones were misled and didn't. That's not their fault, but it is nervelessness lamentable. Fact is that we'd be in more or less the same state without the strike, as we now are after having suffered it. Others here have already pointed out the economic fundamentals. What is left is a badly misplaced sense of grievance. Passing that on to future generations helps no one. Yes, it's fine to recall the past in all its detail, but don't force future generations to re-live just one version of it! And... please don't bring up that lame Thatcher, Milk Snatcher nonsense. At every school I went to most of the milk went down the drain because kids wouldn't touch it! When originally introduced it was a vital measure to ensure children's health. And, surprise, free milk was introduced by Lord Butler in the Education Act of 1944 - a Tory minister in a Tory led government! Wartime rationing had long ended, but even in 1971 there was still some marginal benefit in giving it to under 7's, so she did! MT was a scientist, and carefully considered all the scientific and economic advice she was given. No blame on Harold though, he did the right thing to protect national resources. But, Labour conveniently fail to mention their major part in ending free milk, and hope their supporters are as dumb as they believe. They then magnify MT's part out of all proportion. This suits their agenda of demonising her to their supporters (who they actually despise), whist claiming to be her heir within their own elitist circles. It seems that to be a good Labour supporter you need a mighty short memory; no appreciation of simple economics, and absolutely no interest in historical fact (or even current affairs)! It also helps if you are young, impressionable, and clueless as to how the world actually works (a point not lost on Alex Salmond)!

...well... apparently computer forensics did discover this some months ago. It's just that emphasis has shifted back to Zaharie Shah's strange flight simulator quite recently. The island is (did you guess?) Diego Garcia. So, months old conspiracy theories have been refuelled, and so also may have been the 777. Why aren't the newspapers saying he was practising landing on the runway on Diego Garcia? Perhaps because that would throw up too many awkward questions that can't presently be answered - if ever! Anyway, don't you think that it's an interesting time for our MPs to be getting all concerned about exactly what goes/went on there? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/cia-diego-garcia-chagos-control-combat-detainee-commons

Dr Trotter's Memorial has always been pretty iconic for me. That was until the ido.. err.. "planners" decided to - quite literally - marginalise it. When you glimpsed it you always knew you were back. Something of the character of The Albert Memorial don't you think? Bet those metro's copied it - along with our other innovations! That everyone chipped in to fund it in those austere times says something about the sense of community then. Try getting up a public sub today - oh, we did?! That it couldn't have been readily incorporated in the roundabout scheme as-is was pretty much of a farce. Come to think of it all the mass council vandalism of the 1960's was all pretty much of a farce. You could say the Dr Pit Head and winding gear, but it was indistinct from other places nearby. The ironworks would have nailed it of course, but there we are back to state-sponsored farces again.

MH370 captain plotted route to southern Indian Ocean on home simulator They don't say which island. Computer forensics should have discovered this inside three days not three months!

It seems like Twitter is far too verbose for many netizens. Enter Yo, an app that messages only those two fixed characters. What I find incredible about Yo is that it has reportedly attracted $1 Million in investment! No, it's not April 1st. It has, of course, "security issues": http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/20/5827014/yo-app-hack-security-issues#240849669 What can you say to that but yee? I claim my £600K.

Assad is only playing the survival game as played in the Middle East. It's do or be done to there. The Ruskies understand this and we don't. They've explained this to us several times and we simply haven't been listening! Ditto the Iranians. They too understand the alternatives to Assad. However many "nice" Syrians claim they want their freedom there is a large quasi-religious fundamentalist element who will step in and fill any power vacuum we help create. Our aim should be to tame Assad's excesses and not to remove him. He's listening, but he's not hearing anything from the West that will help him cling on. He's there because a very substantial element in his country know that it's the only way to stability. Our aim should be to make sure that that stability is an inclusive stability, and not stability at the expense of an oppressed minority. UK type democracy is not one-size-fits-all, and what we call democracy isn't anything the tired old power brokers of Europe understand as democracy Mr Clegg! Once we understood the power game better than any nation in history. We've unlearned everything we knew, and are verging on being as dumb as our transatlantic cousins in this respect. Even more importantly we are also on the verge of throwing away sovereignty over our own country. Wake up England (and the rest of the UK)! The penny is dropping though, even in the London-centric liberal elites; but is it dropping too late? The rise of UKIP and "The People's Army" has been a huge influence here (just listen to the other party leaders these days). And no - you stupid little establishment court-jester - Ian Hislop, UKIP hasn't peaked yet - by a long way!