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Are we 1-0 yet..?

Starting right now on ITV4. I hope there are some recorders set..!

I remember going on a winter's skiing holiday secure in the knowledge that Saints would win their portion of the games I'd miss. They did better than I expected. That's how it was back then. BTW, RIP to that talented actress Natasha Richardson. Died only 45, due to an innocent fall during a skiing holiday lesson. Very sad. Sorry to include it in a happiest memory thread. But everything about life is ups and downs.

It's media and business led mate. There's no real foundation for it all. I pity the true ManU fans, if there are any left alive. Well I would if the club that used to be theirs didn't win so much all the bloody time. But the world clamour that stalks ManU, and hence this sport we love, is as hollow as a thin-walled tube.

Calm down Hamster. .! I have to admit that this is something that probably deserves the word cool. Because Steet View really is quite amazing when you consider that Google hire companies to drive up and down streets throughout the world with 360 degree panoramic cameras perched on top, and they drive at the legal speed. Not less, not more.. think about it. We don't have Google car induced traffic jams, because they do their work. A car drove right up my road one late afternoon, last year, and I thought, that's funny... the Google car is supposed to look like that, but it couldn't be... But it was. I now have two addresses, in two countries on opposite ends of the earth, on Street View where I've lived.

Exactly so. I have no problem with Liverpool, or Arsenal from that 1970's era. Or Derby County, Notts Forest, Everton... All teams, honestly better than others with no favour or foul, during their time. But I'm damned if this ManU club is worth all the clamour it gets.

Don't try Hamster. Do it. Even my faulty HDD/DVD recorder is set to record it on HDD. Legod knows how I'll get the recording off it before it goes to the repairers, but I'll work i out somehow.

Don't count yourself out Deppo. I bet Mr Cope wouldn't part with a Julian Cope record for a Mr Sting pile of dog's do. Oh, btw, I'm not impressed with the Shilton/Clemence single.

I don't tend to want someone else down, but I'll make an exception with ManU. They've played the Busby Babe, oh dear, we've crashed in a Munich Airport snowstorm for far too long. Yes it was awful. Yes, I probably have a problem with it. But RIP. They're quick enough to exploit it, time and again, at every opportunity. It was slightly before my time and, as a football supporter, I grew up knowing about it. But we don't go down on bended knee in homage to them every time their name is mentioned. LeGod knows how they got to be the world's favourite team, probably through some good PR, which included that Munich crash, because nobody thought so in my time, and there are plenty of teams as worthy in terms of success, which should be the only arbiter. Am I bitter..? Probably. Perhaps I just don't like bandwagon mentality, which has people like the sprinter Usain Bolt looking forward to watching HIS TEAM next May in Manchester. No doubt he'll get a couple of games in the directors area. But it's all bull really. And it just shows how far football has removed itself from its roots.

Of course it annoys, and I was with you and understanding you all the way up to the point where you erred on the side of capital punishment. This kind of decision isn't something you can take back. Once a person has died, you can't say... oh sorry, we were wrong, and here's £50,000 to help soften the blow. It's a case of... that's it..! The thing you and I hold most dear, that is to exist, to live, is taken away by a mistake out of our control. That's a heavy weight to bear, and something I wouldn't like to just throw aside as a side issue. And I'm sure you wouldn't either, if you thought of the consequences of your thoughts. Is it worth some caution..?

Just in case people don't know it yet, but Street View is available for Southampton now. I'm just exploring it at the moment. Don't quite know how far it extends yet, but it's the usual fun.

Just in case people don't know yet, but Street View is available for Southampton now. I'm just exploring it at the moment. Don't quite know how far it extends yet, but it's the usual fun. It's all over New Zealand, and I found my old home in Gore the other day, looking just the same as it was 18 years ago.

Tell you what Deppo. You're close. But Mr Cope upstairs is closer. Actually wouldn't mind a Julian Cope album as a swap. In good nick, of course.

I'm sure I've put this on here before, but I can't find the earlier entry. I'm making a database of my vinyl collection, to go with a gradual changeover to mp3. I'm absolutely sh!te at Access, and have parted with cash at Amazon [can you believe it..? I can't and I have the book in my hot little hands] to get myself upto speed after years of neglect. Anyway, I've found that bloody awful album again. Yes folks, it's that pretentious piece of 12inch plastic, with the ex-policeman preaching away his version of how gullible can you all be: You can't have it for free either, as that wouldn't be selling. See how far under a £iver I'll accept. Of course, it is in superb condition, as it has hardly ever been played in 23+ years. What on earth was I thinking of when I bought it..? But you may think it wonderful, and would I argue..? Buyer collects. Form an orderly queue, please.

Well perhaps we can make an exception there. I'm joking, Rupert.

In answer to the question... everyone involved in the club to a greater or lesser degree. But mainly the manager, coaches and players.

Good to see you have a solution. And thanks, I'm chuffed.

And just as they lethally inject you, or chop your head off, or hang you, or do whatever it takes to kill you, you protest your innocence for the umpteenth and last time, only to watch the eyes on the onlookers glaze over and feel good about what they are doing. They're ridding the world of another killer. Even though you didn't do it. Perhaps you'd like to burn witches too..? Have some imagination/compassion.

Now that would be a miracle.

I'm off to look for a biscuit tin, some time, and a leaky radiator to make £50,000 with.

Lot's of IF's here. Not being an owner of an external drive, whether in kit form, or ready-made retail, I can't advise you on the connection that will be inside the external drive once you open it up. Common sense [or is that gut feeling..?] suggests that it will be a standard SATA or PATA [EIDE] interface, once all the gubbins is removed. If that is the case, then there is no reason why you couldn't make it an internal drive. However, there is a fault. Is it fundamental, or just something in hard disk controller..? Have you checked out what Cypress AT2LP RC42' driver error means yet..? This was my first dig with Google. More than enough advice to be going on with. http://www.everythingusb.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=8760 HTHs. EDIT: Oops..! Somehow missed the adoration the first read through. I'm not worth it. But it's nice to be appreciated.

This makes interesting reading. I've always held the opinion that Nelson Piquet was nowhere near worth 3 World Championship titles, and Nigel Mansell was worth far more than 1. And perhaps the early part of the article will have a few heads nodding. Then comes the second part, and you look back up at the photo of Ecclestone and Moseley and realise that Ecclestone is completely bananas. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2009/03/when_bernie_ecclestone_first_p.html

A local news story, and nobody could forget this case, as the girl's photo has, over the years, been regularly popping up in related items [see article for photo]. And it appears the bloke, the courts imprisoned, didn't do it after all. Not maybe, not perhaps, not where's there's smoke... The bloke was innocent. Nearly 30 years inside a psychiatric wing on the IOW. He'll probably get at least £500,000 compensation. I'd have my 30 years back. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/18/prisoner-hodgson-murder-quashed-miscarriage EDIT: Also meant to say that it reopens old wounds for the parents. Must be bloody awful. Counting my blessings.

Exactly so.

Just finished watching On The Beach, written by Nevil Shute; the 1959 film starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. They may have couched feelings a little more quaintly back then, but it still hits hard. There's no real respite from the depression of imminent end to everything, and Stanley Kramer, the director pulls few punches. The last 20 minutes are particularly traumatic, if you've followed the film from the start. If you're feeling down for very little reason, and you need to be pulled right smack into what's important, because in reality, there ain't much wrong with your life, then watch it. If not, I would avoid it. There's plenty of films around to have a better time with. Not a masterpiece, but it certainly wears well, 50 years on.