test please delete

[BrilloPad]

Oooh that looks like fun.

I thought the Wii wouldn't take off but I'm the first to admit it's the best all round console out there.

WHS

[BrilloPad]

Ok the lady is back, yes it's fish and chips!

[BrilloPad]

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Will VDF catch ED?

[NickFitz]

Yep they do! Are you getting some Billy bookshelves?

Yup

I don't know what it is but I don't like throwing books away, nor do I like it when I allow someone to borrow* one and they return it dog eared, or dirty.

I feel I need to look after them and treasure them, am I alone in this weirdness?

No, I'm the same. I never get rid of a book - I've even got a Maeve Binchy that an old lady gave me when I worked for Age Concern many years ago. I'll never read it, but I still have it

I think it's something to do with my Dad - he used to be a writer, and brought us up to treasure books. When we moved from Liverpool (when I was nine), the removal men had to go back to the depot to get more tea chests - they said they'd never seen a family with so many books before

[NickFitz]

Ok the lady is back, yes it's fish and chips!

F&C FTW!

I'm not sure what to have today - I might just have a snack, then hit the chippy for their BBQ ribs and chips after the pub.

Mind you, they're not making the BBQ sauce as well as they used to - the flavours aren't balanced properly

A few years ago I ran into the then-manager of the chippy in a pub and he revealed the secret recipe to me. Unfortunately I can only remember about half of it

[voodooflux]

Ok the lady is back, yes it's fish and chips!

Just finished ours

Lady VF had to try an alternate chippy as there was a large, unmoving queue at the usual one. I think we may visit the alternate one again - it was very good, and much better than the last time we went there.

[voodooflux]

No, I'm the same. I never get rid of a book - I've even got a Maeve Binchy that an old lady gave me when I worked for Age Concern many years ago. I'll never read it, but I still have it

We recently had a bit of a clear out, and I decided to get rid of some books at long last to make space for more Lego models on my shelves

Sadly I called time on my Windows 3.0 copy of Petzold, and the original Kruglinksi (sadly no longer with us) Inside Visual C++. I had no such qualms about ditching a couple of COBOL books I had since university though.

[NickFitz]

Sadly I called time on my Windows 3.0 copy of Petzold, and the original Kruglinksi (sadly no longer with us) Inside Visual C++. I had no such qualms about ditching a couple of COBOL books I had since university though.

Philistine!

If I was to take that attitude, I'd be getting rid of such gems as Assembly Language Programming for the BBC Microcomputer and the Digital Equipment Corporation Small Computer Handbook 1967*, which I could never do


* That's "small" as in "not much bigger than a fridge"

[voodooflux]

Philistine!

If I was to take that attitude, I'd be getting rid of such gems as Assembly Language Programming for the BBC Microcomputer and the Digital Equipment Corporation Small Computer Handbook 1967*, which I could never do


* That's "small" as in "not much bigger than a fridge"

I know, I know - I felt bad about the Petzold text in particular as it had keep me company on many nights of coding (in the days before I could look stuff up on the web/MSDN library CDs).

[El_Diablo]