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Was it the cask Paradox? All of the various Paradox lots are whisky aged brews and are almost universally delicious. I think you need a Tactical Nuclear Penguin dude.

Anyone wants any and I'll be happy to bring it over in June. I get 20% off everything because I bought a share in the company. Same if you want any Tactical Nuclear Penguin, the Tokyo* (the best beer ever, ever,ever,evererverververever) is all sold out though.

I hope so. Depends on money. Anybody want one? I get a discount now because I own a share in the company.

Sink the Bismarck!

I use a NAD C352 with my silly inefficient electrostatics and it holds up well. I don't think that you'll have any problems.

Rudi needs to man up. The Thunderdome is bigger than those tiny things.

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Anyone else think Triffid?

Fish probably.

Mr Brains pork faggots are quite good actually.

That's the only sci-fi novel that I've tried to read and couldn't force myself to read through. To be kind, I thought it was a badly written, bloated, mushy rip of Rendevous With Rama. I'd rate it below the very dregs of the various Dune sequels and prequels that Brian Herbert and KJA have pissed all over Frank Herberts legacy with (I've read all of them except the newest, "Paul of Dune" which is on my shelf). Noone seems to have mentioned The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy yet. So I'll throw that in. The sequels get progressively worse though. Do not read "Mostly Harmless". I've read a lot of Arthur C Clarke and rate The City And The Stars, The Songs Of Distant Earth and The Fountains Of Paradise highly. The first Rama is good and so is 2001. The king is still Frank Herberts Dune.

I have to say I was more put out by the death of Robert B Parker a week or so ago.

Looking at the thing, if I think about getting one, it'll be under the second or third hardware revision, by which time the software for it will be I am sure very well matured. I have an iPod Touch and I've only paid for one app in the ten months I've owned it (Conquest). I have a netbook which lives in my desk in the university library and gets used as a uni machine. I don't think it sensible or necessary to own a device which bridges the two areas for which I use these two devices and if I were to spend that kind of money on a tech toy, I'd probably move from the iPod Touch to the iPhone 3G-S. The iPad is a neat piece of kit, and would be great fun to play with, but if I were spending money on something to play with I'd get a Wii. And we have a Wii in the house. However, if some kind of jailbreak opens up this device as an open platform. That I'd be intrigued by. There will, imho, never, ever, ever be Flash or Java support for the iPod Touch, iPhone or the iPad. Doing so destroys the monopoly of the appstore for content control. The furore over this was overblown. But that's how things go with Apple.

Charity shop which doesnt have room for them put them on ebay. Since Its charity ill give the guy a fiver.

German version.

60 LPs for 99p. I go pick them up on Wednesday or Thursday. No idea whats in the box.

Oh theres an odd thing, Ari seems to have close to half a million posts now.

Ah now, that is nicer. Top form dear chap.

Not spent long with the new look as I might have done. But one thing thats glaring to my eye is the very inefficient space use of this layout. Peoples avatars and usernames (and such) should be in larger typeface. I have to squint to check who write what as opposed to reading it seemlessly. Theres a whole bucket of empty sky-blue space in that user bar. A sidebar to the left of each post rather than a title bar above it would be more efficient and reduce scrolling. Theres also a large gap between the end of a users signature and the grey bar with the blog and reply options, that adds up to a lot of empty scroll space over a full page. It just feels, kinda hollow. Maybe itll fill out, but I've clicked up the font size in Firefox by 3 notches, it means more scrolling but less emptiness.

Indeed. Christmas Tree / Advent Calander / Tin Foil Santa chocolate is foul in all parts of the world. Except maybe Belgium. Which war? We've lost a great many. Probably won more though, on points.

American market Creme Eggs have always been made in America, probably under contract and adapted to use your style of chocolate (plasticy and granular). Kraft are not a stupid company (or they wouldn't have been trying to get Cadbury in the first place) so I doubt that the recipies will change over here. There has been a huge amount of public anger and ill-will over the takeover. People feel like they're having their childhoods sold to soulless corporate America. If Gordon Brown had decided to buy Cadbury the way he bought out the banks he might even have got enough of a popular vote gain on the patriotic card to stand a decent chance in the election.

How horribly impractical would a linear starcase actually be? Is there only one place where this stair/lift can go (ie, where the existing access is) or could it be put somewhere where there is not currently a hole for it to fit into?

If you don't put in the elevator and do all of the down and up shifting by hand then by the end of the process you wont need to use the gym because you'll be a competition ready powerlifter! If you didn't live in a hurricane prone part of the world I'd suggest a barn. But I cannot think of a mechanical solution to your situation which is cheap, nor do I think youll find it possible to move large and or heavy objects via a spiral starcase. Have you considered the hire of some kind of temporary platform for the mechanical lifting which can be sent back to the yard after you're finished, then putting in the cheaper stair option? That might be too much for the floor though compared to what would be put in place for a full installation. It's an interesting idea in home development. I don't know anybody who has a lift in their house.

A power amp without volume control is a power amp. A power amp with volume control woul dbe an integrated amp no? You could get the Emotiva pre/power combo of course.

An Emotiva UPA-2 is $300 new for 125watts 8 ohms and 185 4 ohms. That leaves $400 for your DAC of choice. Or you could bi-amp wih two of them and get a cheaper DAC (not a beresford). Given how much Maggies like real power behind them moar power and a cheaper DAC might will be more satisfactory than less power and moar DAC.