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We're watching Royal Ascot (on TV naturally), and yes I am wearing a morning suit and top hat (which looks very much like a tee shirt and shorts with a straw hat), my wife is wearing something obscenely expensive from a well known designer (called Primark apparently). Anyway, we were discussing...

I took this whilst having a coffee by the lake (its a seawater lake). It's not a bad photo I think?

At the start of this Gala Bingo TV ad you hear someone say they're going to have mushy peas. But when they get in the chip shop nobody orders mushy peas. This is really bothering me, who is the mushy peas liar?

I have a Corsair K70, which has served me well for over a year. In the last few days one of the keys has become intermittently unresponsive. It's the full stop/period key so it's kind of important. If I hit it fairly hard it works every time, but if I use a normal touch it fails to input about...

I rather like this slightly atmospheric picture of my cat Trixie. Critical comments welcome...

The linked NYT article is worth a read. Bitcoin mining is unnecessary, expensive, and out of control. Thoughts? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

I've just watched a cracking documentary about Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi. For anyone else my age who remembers watching Formula 1 in the late 70's and 80's those two names will be very familiar - especially to Ferrari fans. This is a thoughful, sometimes painful, and honest...

They're renovating the large hotel opposite us, it's been stripped back to concrete columns and floors. The concreting contractor, who has been strengthening columns and adding floors, finishes up this week. I spotted this guy whilst on our (flat) roof yesterday and rather liked it. It's called...

An American visiting Ireland drops into a bar in Dublin. He's heard that the Irish are big drinkers. He announces to the crowded bar that he'll give $500 to anyone who can down 10 pints of Guinness, one after the other. Nobody comes forward. One guy even gets up and leaves. The American...

Einstein once found himself sitting next to a young man on a flight. Einstein said "how about a competition to pass the time?". "Ok", says the young man, "what do you have in mind?". Einstein says, "well, I'll ask you a question and if you can't answer you give me $5". "Then you can ask me a...

I'm living in a particularly dusty environment at the moment; they're renovating the large hotel opposite us. Consequently I've been cleaning my PC more often than usual - and usual is at least once a year. I'd not done it for a few months now and yesterday I noticed that the colour of my...

This is worth a read, it tells you a little about the man and contains some useful advice for anyone interviewing for a job (or conducting the interview for that matter).... https://greekreporter.com/2021/11/05/jeff-bezos-applicant/ I asked prospective candidates for a system support position...

Anyone else having a problem with this forum and Tapatalk? I've been getting the 'Network error try later' issue when trying to login to this forum. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the Tapatalk app and cleared the device cache but to no avail. There are no network issues at my end and I can...

A Turkish man drinking with friends got so drunk that he wandered away from his friends into a forest and was later reported missing. Whilst walking through the forest he came across a search team looking for a missing person. He of course immediately volunteered to join in the search. It was...

Seems a bit extreme to me... :eek: Source: https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2021/09/20/gamers-pc-screens-tif-thessaloniki-smash/

Source: https://www.themarketmakernews.com/2021/09/18/want-to-save-the-earth-then-dont-buy-that-shiny-new-iphone-john-naughton/

I have edited this post to reflect a change in the backup software I use. Pretty much everyone knows that they should be backing up their data. But why do we do it? No, it's a serious question. The backup strategy that you select depends entirely on what you're backing up and what you want to...

I've been asked by the PCS Customer Care team to post the following fix (from the PCS Support Team) on the forums. I realise that @Rakk has already posted it elsewhere but I've been asked to post it as well, so here it is. :) PS. It's a Word .docx file

I've been asked by the PCS Customer Care team to post the following fix (from the PCS Support Team) on the forums. I realise that @Rakk has already posted it elsewhere but I've been asked to post it as well, so here it is. :) PS. It's a Word .docx file.