Posts by mr-tom 46 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Sep 2010
I loved Love Film initially, but then over a six month period, it seemed every other disc they sent me was filthy and / or scratched. I watched little bits of so many things that in the end I gave up on them and decided to wait for iptv. Now Netflix is here, even though the range isn't great, I simply never, ever run into quality issues, and that's on a positively medieval Internet connection,
Any given average would be of multiple stock sales across a trading day, so if sales took place on more than one trading day, there would be multiple averages.
Plus, some big stocks can be traded in other national markets creating further duplication (although no idea whether FB is)
I have some of the knives for sushi making.
(No, I didn't get them engraved)
They are absolutely amazing. Did the apple test the day I got them - dropping an apple from 12 inches onto an outstretched blade. It went straight through. Needless to say, it was my best toy since I got rid of my lego.
Would have been much better with Emma Clarke instead of Mr Generic. Emma was the voice behind all the London Underground announcements before being sacked by them after a newspaper misquoted her (they said that she found travelling on the underground unpleasant at rush hour, heaven forbid!)
My granddad was in tanks in North Africa during the war. As he was in at the start, he had Matildas, which were fine for seeing off the Italians, but less than useless when it came to sterner German engineering, especially in view of the bigger guns employed why Hitler's bully buys.
The brilliant British solution was to remove his gun turret altogether and replace it with an arc light. The idea was that he could focus it in on German armour at night, blinding them for long enough for another tank to get close enough to dent the Bosch armour.
Needless to say, they were grateful when they got their next upgrade.
Sadly, he is dead now, but I used to love taking him around the Bovington tank museum.
I suspect that Fitch have seen such promises before and have a weather eye to the likelihood of delivery of rash promises made by a company which likens itself to a burning oil platform.
However, as a loyal Nokia (N8-00) user, I would be delighted to see (viable, stable, usable, appealing) Win 7 Nokia devices before year end. Even more delighted to beta them.
Well I for one am reassured to learn that Tokyo Electric Power Co have opened a twitter account today.
I can think of absolutely no better way that they could be spending their time right now...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iOAhBWPQmKiUn41fS_CG3UQvjd0Q?docId=CNG.af94279f2de063afb3fd0d2db3261792.ae1
On the up side, finally an IT angle...
I love Top Gear. I love the humour and that it can get away with being politically incorrect, but I was very uncomfortable with the Mexico comments.
Jokes about Germany invading Poland or lorry drivers murdering prostitutes benefited from being clearly intended to be humour and from containing a small grain of truth.
Mexico on the other hand came across as abuse rather than humour (my interpretation, perhaps) and as wholly untrue.
Maybe they were just trying too hard to be funny. Perhaps the format is getting stale, after all.
I was also curious as to what the car was actually like - let's face it, there's enough batshit crazy startups out there that manage to build highly entertaining (in one way or another) cars that there's no good reason why this should be any different.
It's either broken, or something very wrong has happened in my area.
I put in my postcode. It recognised it, added the city and county of its own accord and then gave me the comforting message:
"Sorry, we couldn't find a policing area that matched your search"
Oh well, that's a few hundred off my council tax bill, then. Just need to invest in a baseball bat and a crossbow.
On a related note, I thought they were supposed to be doing less of this sort of thing, not more - what with it being a recession and all that...
I've had a 6 year running battle with them to stop them from sending me unsolicited mail. I'm on the mailing preference service, the post office's list and I'm registered with Virgin themselves as somebody who doesn't want to receive their junk mail, but still it comes.
The irony is that their service isn't even available in my area.
I love the kindle. Bought the 3 myself.
But with so many free books being downloaded willy nilly and each free download treated as a sale, is this truly a useful figure?
It would be interesting to see which group had the greater turnover - paperback or e-book.
My guess is that e-book has a little way to go yet.
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