Hi. I recently replaced my DVD burner with a LightScribe DVD RAM drive. I thought it would be really convenient to be able to write the labels in the drive, instead of f4arting around with the printer...
I have a horrible feeling that AB is about to be overwhelmed with people posting links to Lost, in order to get points. Perhaps the automatic censor could be tweaked to remove links to the Lost site?
Hi, Anyone else have problems with Firefox 2? Since upgrading, I've noticed the following problems: 1) After a few address changes, my address bar stops automatically reflecting the address of the...
At about 4 o'clock this morning I was awoken by a strange pulsating light in the bedroom, and realised that the main room light (one of those "folded up" fluorescent replacements for an ordinary bulb)...
I am the manager of an open plan office. Recently we have discovered that our mentally subnormal cleaner has been using one of the office computers to post questions on AB. How she worked out how to...
Time it was renamed "Hysterical Rants". One poster even got flamed for asking for more details of a news item he'd seen (precisely the sort of thing you'd imagine the group was for). Instead, it's...
This site often pops up in google searches on Kefalonia, but if I click the links I always get a 403 "Forbidden" message Can some of you try it and let me know if it's personal, or do you get the same...
I'm just reading yet another American crime novel (Q is for Quarry, by Sue Grafton) in which the detective "reached up, unclipped the cover of the dome light, and unscrewed the bulb" before opening...
When our veranda roof was removed to facilitate adding another story to the house, one of the geckos that used to live there moved into the house. We are quite fanatical about flyscreens, so as far as...
Today I spilled some hot, sticky food on my finger and it was agony, so I instinctively put the finger in my mouth and sucked the food off. This got me thinking: you can be drinking a cup of coffee,...
Showing my age here... When I was a kid , my mum used to make marzipan from semolina and almond essence; I think it was something they did in WWII. The thing is I preferred it to the real thing (I...