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[zeitghost]

Actually, I think I'll go there now - I'm feeling distinctly hungry

See you in a bit - or quite a bit, given the preposterously slow service in there

Look on the bright side, it could have been a Little Chef...

[zeitghost]

I just discovered another fail on the Mac. When using Internet Connect (which is used to hook up to the net via modems and such) the "Connect" button turns into a "Disconnect" button when activated. As a result, an accidental tap on the trackpad when a connection is being established immediately causes that connection to be disestablished

I'm pretty sure this change in behaviour of the button goes against the Apple User Interface Guidelines... yet this comes from Apple themselves

The obvious (to me) UI is to have two buttons: a "Connect" button that is disabled when a connection is active, and a "Disconnect" button that is disabled when no connection is active.

It seems that somebody took the idea of simplifying the interface one step too far with this one - the idea is to simplify the user interface as much as necessary, not simplify it to the extent that it impedes the user

Re-purposing controls to have a different and opposite purpose when the system changes state can be useful in some circumstances. In this circumstance it isn't.

Ho hum

The NTL dialler thingie went one stage further than that; aside from throttling back the max speed to something like 41k, you could get it into a race condition between connecting and disconnecting pretty easily... at which time the only solution was switching the damn thing off & back on again.

[zeitghost]

I'd like to say it was an Epic Fail, but then NTL by definition is An Epic Fail of truly Epic proportions...

[Churchill]

Morning everyone

Morning CM!

Good morning all!

[cailin maith]

Morning CM!

Good morning all!

Hi doggie

[BrilloPad]

Morning everyone

How are you?

[zeitghost]

Thought For The Day

Although they clean these hotel rooms, it stands to reason that they can't do a deep clean every day.

Human beings shed loads of particles of dead skin every day.

Moving around in a room will inevitably disturb the finer of these particles, causing them to drift about in that part of the Earth's atmosphere contained within the room.

Therefore, there's a good chance that, as I sleep, fragments of other people who I will probably never meet are passing into my lungs with every breath.

On that note, goodnight

You haven't thought about the pillows have you...

Also I suspect that using UV would light up all sorts of interesting "organic" deposits here & there...

[BrilloPad]

Morning all



It'll be another morning of chaos once the kiddies turn up

How are you?

How is the knee?

[BrilloPad]

Morning CM!

Good morning all!

How are you?

[zeitghost]

How are you?

How is the knee?

:

I did a lot of trotting up & down the hill yesterday & the left one was distinctly dicey last night.

Old age doesn't come alone...