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..and I thought you were joking! Could never figure out why I couldn't stand the guy. Now I know.

Bedcordia!

Difficult to figure out where Polaris might be on those!

1997 the time things started to go out of control then? Anyone remember what happened in 1997? All I seem to be able to remember is this guy with a cheesy smile singing "Things - can only get better - can only get better...".

A Tuesday announcement say the rumours. And, from multiple leaks, it's a 16:9 four-incher with a quad core ARM CPU for sure, and little in the way of styling changes. One change that will have even the fanboys moaning is the abandonment of the long established 30pin connector for a new 19pin one, thus rendering all accessories that depend on the 30pin connector obsolete! If this week then Sammy have bounced them into it by alerting the press to a product launch (maybe two) next week. Prior to this Apple had planned an October launch. The Sammy launch could be the Galaxy Note 2. If so they are now doing a lot better at the secrecy game than the guys in Cupertino.

At that time not only 110 Front Street East but no less than three other locations on Front Street East. Will get around to describing those real soon now. The only off-licence I can actually remember well from that era was half way along the Barrington Road. It was sufficiently remote that it didn't need to be too choosy about the age of its customers! This is indeed true! And well into the 1950's too!

I was once foolish enough to buy a Kodak digital camera - mind you at a huge discount. It's in the garage somewhere! Well.. so far I have ordered from Amazon twice, and twice cancelled the order within minutes. If only people took as long choosing a government as I do choosing the latest gismo the World would be an altogether better place (but filled with maddeningly indecisive people)! P.S. My spelling checker wants to change your "Instimatic" to Astigmatic. Maybe it too knows something about choosing cameras? But wasn't the Kodak marketing prefaced on the idea of them being Instant and automatic? And... I'd bet that Apple "owns" iMatic anyway - possibly a revolutionary new machine that SJ invented to wash clothes, before he went to meet his maker Chinese subcontractor.

There's a great Gigapixel panorama here: http://www.willpears...p-of-the-shard/ It's actually shot from the top of the crane! For best results make sure you select full screen mode, else it's nothing like so impressive. Came across it during my continuing (and somewhat pointless) quest for the best budget zoom/superzoom camera for my needs. And no, I still haven't decided - but I will have what he's got! So, have you found the Olympic Park yet?

How many (unaffordable) Community Centre centuries would the cost work out to? Can anyone do the maths?

This is relatively easy (at least in the one without the 'g' I used to play ): you count the number of times the shuttlemebob goes back without landing on the ground. Sometimes even I could manage more than four times against a modestly good player. World class players should be able to manage a tiny bit more than four max!

Same BBC Oxford page lower down: Does this mean that Humes and Wiseman are 'A' list celebs, or has usage of the indefinite article subtly changed quite recently?

Especially if you are the BBC! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-19035426 Firstly, it quite obviously wasn't a barbecue. Secondly, it quite obviously wasn't empty! And the police response is little better: "Det Con Rachel Jackson said officers were treating the man's death as unexplained." Explanation: Boom!

Every time I try to listen listen to my usual news sources just as soon as the word Olympic is half mentioned I get the message "Due to rights restrictions this part of the program is not available." repeated over and over. So, I've said auf wiedersehen to Auntie Beeb, and am now getting all my Olympic news from here. What's a "Corporate Society"? Thought I might have accidentally visited The New Statesman website for a few desperate seconds!

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Ah, so they sold s/h pick and place machines, not used them. And yes, there was at least one link with Welwyn Systems. http://content.yudu....resources/5.htm Pity really as it's the sort of industry we need. If the football team were actual employees they appeared to have been distinctly overstaffed for a company of that size. Also, I'm not to sure I'd have farmed out my software to a company which offered "Pattern Programs wrote from BOM's"!

Hhmmm... http://bizzy.co.uk/u...325/b-w-elliott and... why set up a new company which hasn't filed accounts (yet)? http://bizzy.co.uk/u...h-terra/refresh Related Companies Blyth Terra Limited Tracey Elliott has been an officer of both companies. Wenade Eu Limited Tracey Elliott has been an officer of both companies. Oh dear, oh dear! https://www.duedil.c...nade-eu-limited From the scant trail on the web looks like they were trying to operate SM pick and place machines (some link with Welwyn Systems here?). That's not the sort of thing anyone in the UK can make money from these days. If they'd asked I'd have given them some free consultancy!

...so... whilst I'm waiting patiently for the inevitable torrent of solid advice to roll in from the Bedders photographic lobby I've (quite literally) dusted off the ancient Canon G2 and am currently charging all three battery packs I found in a nearby box - at least two of which, quite amazingly, still seem to hold a decent charge. A few test pics look quite good in the viewfinder. It's a bit of a monster, but the glass up front is good, and the manual controls don't seem as fiddly as modern compacts or "bridge" cameras. Now, all I need is to figure a way to read CF on a modern laptop. Maybe it was the piece I saw quite recently of David Bailey, with his simple retro gear, being interviewed in a greasy spoon East London caf'? Maybe it's the time of year? Maybe it's all those near-endless gigabytes of storage bedlington.co.uk has just come into on it's new super-fast server? Maybe I'm just going gaga? But, if the photo bug hasn't worn of in a few weeks, I might just revisit those newfangled ultra zooms, looking for bargains at the quality end.

For the record in Foxy's picture: the shop just this side of the Northumberland Arms is James Millne (Jimmy Millne's) at 110 Front Street East. This was where Radio and later TV was supplied from. It was known as "The Cycle Shop" because it still sold cycle spares, and just about everything else hardware-wise. It also still saw a steady string of miners buying "carbide" (calcium carbide) for their helmet gas lamps about the time this was taken. This was scooped out of large oil drums and sold by the pound in heavy duty paper bags. Maybe the carbide was also used in early cycle lamps, but by this time they were all battery operated by the common 3 Volt Cycle Lamp Batteries. I also remember a sign saying "Needless to say you'll need needles." yup, not the sewing variety but your actual gramophone needles! Going out of fashion as the electric "pick-up" and amplifiers rendered them relics of the past, but still in some demand in those days of 78's (78 RPM Records). Other things on show, and in demand, would be sets of darts, and harmonicas (Horner?). I remember local darts players weighing darts in their hands and doing practice throws. You wanted high-tech - there were shelves of radio valves with type numbers going back to the year dot! Perhaps the only place you could get those in Bedlington. A "fashion expert" tells me this picture is 1958 or 1959, and that's about what I'd have guessed, if I'd not guessed a tiny bit earlier. So.. here we are already well into the 405 line TV era, with BBC TV (Channel 5) long established, and Tyne Tees TV (Channel 8) just starting, or getting ready to start.

aaawww..... I was going to do that! Better stick to what I'm really good at then... perl one, plain one.. Remember that those who show they can really deliver content get rapidly promoted to elite "Contributor" membership. That gives them unlimited storage space for their photos, and a whole chapter in the history of the World (as we know it, Jim). There's probably a gong, or a knighthood, in there somewhere too! If you think you deserve Contributor status then PM me with a link to what you have already done with your existing storage space.

Actually, we do still have one that's not a lot different to that! And... I'm not joking!

So short I almost missed it! Regular members will be in no doubt that we are now running on the new machine!

"..having my 'warning status' recorded and published on the Internet." It is not published, it's only visible to you! Log out then return to a publicly viewable forum you've posted in and you will see that it is no longer visible. Just about everything recorded about you is editable by you in your profile at any time you choose, so you decide what you tell moderators and other members about yourself. No commercial enterprise will ever have access to your private data. We don't put a monetary value on your membership like US megacorps do - because we have no desire to make money out of you. We also provide a facility for you to easily delete all site cookies - that are only there for your convenience and smooth running, not to track your behaviour like others do. If there is a problem I'm at a loss to see how this could be!

Not through the warning system you are talking about though - so I won't eat my words! The warning points system is part of many many many thousands of boards on the Internet now. Google on "IPB warning system" if you want to see what others say. If you do want it disabled then hold a poll! Malcolm is right - the "views" depend on your membership status, and it's not always easy to work out exactly what other membership groups see. The warning status of other members is only seen by the moderator groups though.

Didn't say that at all. Said I had been moderated. We have had some deliberately disruptive behaviour, and they have been used, but it was a fair while ago.

You have to be logged in. AFAIK everyone has 0 warning points, and I only remember one occasion that any were issued. Ah, yes, George Orwell. "Display name" for Eric Blair. The left-wing guy who thought that Stalin's Russia was the future, a nice place to be, and "worked", but lived on an tiny island so he could avoid social contact himself! As this place is fully democratic why not start a campaign to have the warning system turned off? Just remember that it is an integral part of a system that is deployed on hundreds of thousands of websites, and has stood the test of time. It may seldom be used but it's a sanction your moderators may well need when disruptive elements surface, as has happened in the past. One remarkable thing about this board is how very very little moderator intervention is required. I'd contrast this with the BBC boards which seem to be heavily moderated. Of course we've been at it much longer than they have, but mainly have a much tighter community with a common heritage. Something the social engineering politicos could learn something from I think.