Posts by Glenturret Single Malt

Windows XP beats 8.1 in December market share stats

Re: Support is impossible @Dave Horn

Right click on unwanted tile. Select "unpin from start".

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There was no content in today's newsletter (Monday 5th January) as received by Thunderbird and BT Yahoo Mail. However, the version seen using Outlook was complete.

Renault Captur: Nobody who knows about cars will buy this

Re: 'drive like a christian'???

As my son informs me, Thai drivers have as the basis of their driving technique the motto "Buddha will provide".

Who wants SLEEP DEPRIVATION for Christmas?

Reading in bed

Am I the only person who finds that reading in bed is very uncomfortable especially if you are trying to keep your arms and shoulder warm. As a canny Scot, my bedroom heating goes off before I go to bed and the room cools down very rapidly. If you are sitting up propped by pillows, then you might as well be in an armchair elsewhere.

30,000 people buy a box of BOVINE EXCREMENT

Re: "Don't beaches have sand?"

Brighton beach doesn't and it must be one of the best known and most photographed in the world.

Branson sinks sub dream: Plan to explore Earth's bottom scrapped

Mysteries of the deep

So, Branson has decided against plumbing the depths for profit.

Boffins weigh in to perfect kilogram quest with LEGO kit

Weight?

Are we talking about mass here, not weight?

Microsoft says January Windows 10 build will excite sysadmins

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focused not focussed

This week it rained in San Francisco and the power immediately blew out. Your tech utopia

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benifited not benefitted.

Kaspersky: That 2 years we took to warn you about Regin ? We had good reason

Re: Re. Legspin

Scuze, pliz. Zat "tosser", eez not that ze same as "chucker"?

Apple knob refusenik Sir Jony Ive handed award - for talking BOLLOCKS

Re: Talking of plain English

He may be a nob (posh, loads of money) but is he a knob?

Re: Talking of plain English

Step 2 (Wristwatch) is only straightforward if the wristwatch has an old-fashioned analogue display (circle of numbers, big hand, little hand). In that case appreciation of the time is essentially instantaneous

If, however, the watch has a digital display, the procedure becomes more like: Twist wrist to face owner, curse, fumble in pocket for spectacle case, open it and put on specs (assuming I haven't left them on my desk upstairs if I am downstairs or in the kitchen downstairs if I am upstairs, read display, mentally convert it to a "real" time (e.g. 15:48 becomes Ah, nearly ten to four), make short trip tp local shop to buy new battery for old-style watch.

Brit smut slingers shafted by UK censors' stiff new stance

Le Vice Anglais

Nice throwaway comment about caning in boarding schools. Just a pity that it has been banned for about 35 years.

Assange™ slumps back on Ecuador's sofa after detention appeal binned

"Slumps back on sofa"

Sofa? They must have very luxurious bathroom facilities in the Ecuador embassy.

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: The MIGHTY Scotch egg

Re: Post-pub nosh neckfiller: The MIGHTY Scotch egg

In this part of the world, Stornoway black pudding is the connoisseurs' choice.

It’s payback time as humans send a probe up alien body

Hoots, mon

Should have been made clearer that the reference to Scotland was related to the CRICKET World Cup.

Bullish Vodafone barges back into UK consumer broadband market

Is this a piss-taking competition to see who can use the largest number of abbreviations/acronyms in the smallest number of words or are these messages all real and meaningful?

I can't tell.

GOD particle MAY NOT BE GOD particle: Scientists in shock claim

Re: Just to be clear...

I am in sympathy with your observation. The sentence sounds clumsy and sort of wrong. However, my Chambers Dictionary (1994 edition) defines data as "n.pl. (but commonly used as singular)". So I fear that you are fighting a losing (lost already?) battle.

Microsoft's TV product placement horror: CNN mistakes Surface tabs for iPAD stands

Re: I hate product placement...

My response to product placement is more usually along the lines of "Oh, look, they've got one of those things the same as we have/used to have" rather than "That looks good, I must get one for myself".

IT jargon is absolutely REAMED with sexual double-entendres

Re: Pegging order?

Alistair: Keep your pecker up!

iCloud fiasco: 100 FAMOUS WOMEN exposed NUDE online

Re: Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Ariana Grande

Having googled Kate Upton, I was pleasantly surprised to find that she does have some flesh to display and is not one of those anorexic stick insect creatures that inhabit many fashion photographs nowadays.

Windows 7 settles as Windows XP use finally starts to slip … a bit

21 to 14 is a drop to 67% of the initial value, 31 to 24 is a drop to 77% of the initial value.

I make the first one a faster decline.

It's Google HQ - the British one: Reg man snaps covert shots INSIDE London offices

Re: It behooves one ...

Americans say "behooves", Brits say "behoves" (according to my Chambers Dictionary). I think the word behooves has been a back construction from "behoof" which doesn't really have anything to do with behoves.

Don't put that duffel bag full of cash in the hotel room safe

Emirates economy class hands out metal cutlery.

Firefox, is that you? Version 29 looks rather like a certain shiny rival

Re: Nearly

Palemoon now on v24.5 - not so very far behind FF in frequency of updates