Jenjie

because i have to learn for myself. :D

not really. its just a hugely technical undertaking for my limited abilities. hmtl or whatever the hell it is I'm using is just one big huge scary hole to get lost in :laugh3:

As for the missing 14, I could have sworn all the numbers were there. :embarassed: I even test ran it in the mods forum, and no-one noticed! :lol:

The doors don't open on time because I'm rubbish!

not necessarily. if I buy them for the sake of them, then yes because I don't win. if I buy them, when the voices in my head insist I have to buy a particular one, I always win.

COnspiracy theories are all very well, but ones that quite obviously take the piss out of a disaster like that are sick & twisted.

Yup. I have a huge stack to take to the post box. Its costing me a fortune in postage as I'm sending more international ones this year. The postage itself has come to nearly £20. I have actually decided that stamps are a rip off. If I want to send a postcard to america it costs 50p. If I want to send a card/letter which weighs practically the same, it needs a £1.19 stamp.

Happy Hannukah to all of you xx

since when are you around on weekdays to cook breakfast???? and I don't seem to have seen any of your breakfasts recently!!!! Fancy cooking me one tomorrow?:P

nooooo!! don't shut down the whole chain. where else are you going to go on the odd occasions you need that junk food fix?? when you just need that hangover breakfast, you can't beat a sausage & egg mcmuffin!!!!

A month or so ago, I saw a news article saying that the government were going to abandon paper petitions, and people could submit them online instead. Having seen some of these, do we think they're regretting the decision? http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/juggle/ http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/goldanthem/ http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Resign/ http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Cycle-lanes/ http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/NHSMonkeys/ http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/boratforleader/

I'm two-thirds of the way there. Done what I do every year and shopped around so some is online, some from the bricks and mortar shops!! ANd I would love to tell you what I've bought but some of it is for Ian and i don't want to spoil the surprise!!

Ooops!!! that was a dumb mistake. I always triple check my scratch cards.

The High Court has ruled a woman in a persistent vegetative state given an experimental treatment against her family's wishes can be allowed to die. It had been ruled, despite her family's view, that she should be given a sleeping pill which could potentially have woken her up. However, the 53-year-old, who has not been named, failed to respond to the drug, zolpidem. Her doctors will now be allowed to withdraw life-sustaining care. Early reserach had shown that zolpidem can bring people out of a vegetative state. But the woman's family did not want her to receive the drug, preferring to let her die, as she may be left seriously disabled. Sir Mark Potter, head of the High Court's family division, ruled against their wishes earlier this month. He gave the go-ahead for a three-day trial course of zolpidem after hearing that it might offer her a "glimmer of hope" of recovery. The drug proposal had been put forward by Laurence Oates, the outgoing Official Solicitor. No impact Zolpidem is normally used to help insomnia but has been cited in a number of cases where it has caused patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) to wake up. In these cases, an improvement was seen within 20 minutes of taking the drug and wore off after four hours, when the patients were restored to their vegetative state. But at a hearing in London on Wednesday, attended by members of the woman's family, Sir Mark said the drug had failed to boost her level of awareness. He said: "The drug produced no increased responsiveness and instead it appeared to make her fall asleep, that is to say it had its normal intended effect, it being a form of sleeping pill marketed as effective in dealing with cases of insomnia." The woman was diagnosed as PVS after she suffered a brain haemorrhage while on holiday in August 2003. Professor Keith Andrews, of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, gave evidence at the original hearing. He supported the way it was handled by the courts. He said: "Although the outcome is as we had anticipated, we felt it was important to support the view that everything should be done that could be done before any decision was made to withdraw nutrition and hydration." It is not the first time a PVS patient has caused ethical problems. In 1993, the Law Lords ruled that Hillsborough stadium disaster victim Tony Bland could have his feeding tube removed. The 22-year-old was crushed and his brain starved of oxygen during the FA Cup semi-final disaster in April 1989, when 95 people died. For nearly four years he was in a persistent vegetative state. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6213546.stm

Nearly three tons of unlicensed fireworks found by customs officers in South Yorkshire are back on the streets after being stolen from a warehouse. The fireworks were discovered during routine checks at a self-storage site in Barnsley, along with 150,000 illegal cigarettes on Monday night. But the secured container was broken into and the haul stolen, hours before they were due to be moved on Wednesday. Anyone with information about the fireworks is urged to contact police. Customs officers handed the fireworks over to South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, who could not move them until Wednesday because special transportation had to be organised. John Kinghorn, head of detection for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), said it was "unthinkable that someone could be so stupid" as to store so many live explosives together. 'Organised crime' He said: "These containers are not the proper environment for live explosives, especially when stored alongside more than 7,000 individual boxes of cigarettes. "A small spark or flame near the container could have caused an extremely serious explosion and resulting fire." Mr Kinghorn said anyone who is offered fireworks by an unlicensed dealer should contact the police or HMRC immediately. He said: "This is a classic example of organised criminal activity, evidencing the fact that criminal gangs are prepared to deal in anything which makes a profit - they deliberately flout all laws and restrictions in the process and fear not for the safety or damage of the general public in their quest to make a profit. "This was a lethal cocktail of smuggled or counterfeit cigarettes stored with a large quantity of gunpowder in a metal container and one can only surmise at the potential size of the disaster waiting to happen." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/6213608.stm

A British man who traded counterfeit DVDs on the internet auction site eBay has been fined £55,000. Peter Spencer, 39, from Oakhill Park in Bradford, pleaded guilty to importing and distributing pirated DVDs at Bradford Crown Court in May. He received a six-month jail sentence and has now been ordered to pay £55,000 or face a further two years in prison. The sum was judged to be his profit from selling pirated copies of films like Kill Bill and Lord of The Rings. Spencer was brought to court following an investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact), which found he had more than 950 counterfeit DVDs for sale on eBay in January 2004. The investigation team believed he had made £14,000 from the sale of one title alone, Lord Of the Rings: The Return of the King. The discs had been produced in plants in the Far East and had their region coding removed so that they would play in any DVD player worldwide. Spencer is thought to have used around 500 identities to trade on eBay over a two-year period. Fact director Kieron Sharp said he hoped the fine would send "a strong message to those using auction sites such as eBay that they are not immune from prosecution and further action should they trade in counterfeit goods". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6206210.stm

there was something on the radio earlier about having steel lined exam halls as the mobile signals can't get through. am a little intrigued as we were only ever allowed a pen, ink refills, a pencil, a rubber and a ruler on our desk. all pencil cases, coats & bags had to be left in a big pile at the front of the hall

A Christmas beer brewed in Oxfordshire has been banned in parts of the United States because it has a picture of Father Christmas on the label. Officials in the state of New York told English brewers Ridgeway Brewing that the image on bottles of Santa's Butt could encourage under-age drinking. The beer, a 6% winter porter, is brewed in South Stoke for the US market. The ban was challenged by the beer's American importer and lifted, but has now been imposed in the state of Maine. Peter Scholey, of Ridgeway Brewing, called the decision "ridiculous". "They said the label is attractive to children but you cannot go into a shop there that sells alcohol until you are 21," he said. This is not the first time that Ridgeway Brewing has fallen foul of state authorities in the US. Last Christmas two of its beers - Seriously Bad Elf and Warm Welcome - were banned in Connecticut on the same grounds. The ban was successfully challenged by importers, Shelton Brothers, a firm based in Belchertown, Massachusetts. Labels reviewed Daniel Shelton said he felt the latest bans were a case of liquor authorities trying to exert their powers. "They said there was an undignified and improper image on the label. "We sent out a press release and the (New York) state liquor authority have immediately been back pedalling. "Maine has now banned the beer for the same reason." In a statement, a spokesman for the New York State Liquor Authority, said: "These labels were denied at the staff level originally, they were later reviewed by the SLA General Counsel and approved." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6207746.stm

apologies for the delay in yesterday's. It'll be up in a few hours along with today's

I don't think playing violent video games makes you more likely to be violent. When I was a kid, I had some fighter plane game where you had to fly the plane and bomb certain targets. I never got the urge to go out flying fighter planes for real.

it is a little worrying isn't it. you can just imagine them sat there saying "its taking a really long time to get across London today, where on earth have all the big ugly buildings gone, and why do we keep passing signs saying M6 North?"

Of all the films I've seen so far this year, these are the ones I enjoyed most (in no particular order): Children of Men The Departed Casion Royale Stormbreaker Cars Proof The World's Fastest Indian Silent Hill Snakes on a Plane Walk The Line Running Scared Good Night & Good Luck

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36273 :P

A London Ambulance crew was sent 200 miles to Manchester by a faulty satellite navigation system while transferring a patient to hospital. The team were supposed to take the man from King George Hospital in Ilford to Mascalls Park Hospital in Brentwood. But they did not realise their equipment was faulty until the reached the outskirts of Manchester. London Ambulance said the patient was in a comfortable condition throughout the eight-hour journey. The patient left the King George Hospital for the Mascalls Park Hospital, which is a 12 mile (19.3km) journey, in the early hours of Tuesday morning but did not arrive until the afternoon, having travelled to Manchester and back. The spokesman said: "We believe the crew, who had not been to this particular hospital before, followed the directions given by the navigation system, without manually confirming their destination. "We understand that they reached the outskirts of Manchester before realising they were heading to the wrong destination. The problem with the navigation database is also now being fixed." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6200054.stm