Hi Jeff, I don't live near Cannes now - but spent part of a year in school (University of Illinois) in a little town 7K. west along the coast road called LaNapoule. It was a long time ago, went back to visit 10 years ago and nothing changed in the town but the have a huge harbor now. Kind of disturbed the peacefull character of the area but still beautiful. Attached is a phot of two of the attractions in LaNapoule from my school days. One is Dominique, who by now is middle aged and maybe not such a hippie and the other - unchanged as of my 10 years ago visit is the Henry Clews castle, where our foreign studies program for the U of I was stationed for a few years. (Now they're in Paris). From Cannes you are close to everything by bus, train and plane. There is the main street in Cannes - Boulvevard de la Croisette that follows the coast line- called N98 out of town - (the scenic route to LaNapoule and to Nice by the way) where you can enjoy the sandy, topless beaches and see the Palas des Festivals where they have the film festival in May. It is a real zoo down there in May. A few K's east is Nice, a big college town with lots to do but with rocky beaches. A bit further east is Monaco which is a must see. Up in the hills all along the coast are perfume makers, art colonies and galleries. Lot of French Impressionist history. Heading west from Cannes are a lot of interesting small towns including LaNapoule, further out- not exactly local - Saint Tropez (I think current home of Brigitte Bardot) and major port cities like Toulon and Marseille-( see Corbusiers Unite). By the way, as I remember on of our forum members Fymoro, has French Riviera down as his location - might give him a pm? Anyway - have a great trip, hard not to. Share some photos when you get back I'd love to see them. [image: LaNapoule-Dominique.jpg]

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60% of households to have 3D displays? I've heard that we're all going to have 3D displays for years now, and there's nothing even at the top level of the end-user pipeline that even remotely suggests that we're going to have 3D displays. All the same, neat device; but I think the mouse is going to be here for a lot longer befire something else takes it's place.

Chrome suffers from the typical Google disease. Nice idea, but not very well executed. But as it is fairly new, the benefit of the doubt I'd say. For the moment, nothing beats the browsing experience you get from Firefox. Very fast, no hassle at all and without any adds or other crap, by using plugins.

hm. I missed that news.

My family and most my Norwegian friends call me Thomas. My English friends call me either Thom or TT. (Thom by class colleagues and TT by my housemates because we where three Thomas' in my house.) Sometimes TT gets shortened to just T. "Cookiemonster" and "Mad Norwegian" has also been mentioned on occasions... @tinanne said: My nieces and nephews can't seem to put Aunt Tina together so they just call me TT. I had a German housemate which has a couple of friends for Germany visiting. The German guest pronounced TT as "Titty". x_X

Something similar, but deals with not heavily textured objects well. http://carlos-hernandez.org//research.html

Even if you don't celebrate the day..Best wishes for you all...

I think he was there on holiday - he was in buying wine at a local winery where my sister and a friend were having lunch and she got a brief chat with him. Siad he was a nice guy.

Or, which is more common among Bosnian and Croatian Muslims, Bajram Serif Mubarek Olsun! ( I believe this is a Turkish version; words change, meaning doesn´t )

@Gaieus maybe you can write a Ruby that tells Firefox to tell the Addon that it is 'special' Zip file that needs to carefully placed in the 'Plugin' folder then Unzipped oh so gently

if you didn't post it in your opening it's an omission. sorry. many ppl won't click the link and jsut read the post they see. fact of life I'm afraid in our quick quick quick culture.

anyway modelhead....what are you trying to achieve? do you want a medal? you didn't answer my previous question: if you went on safari in africa.....would you get immunised before you went? and would you take malaria tablets?

Good luck with the City of Culture thing. Liverpool held the title in 2008 and the result was a huge programme of modernisation and restoration. The new city centre is now unrecognisably improved from what it was only a couple of years ago. [image: http://www.planbperformance.net/images/urbanvoodoo/large/LiverpoolCranes.jpg]

Thank you very much!

thats funny

I see the reason it was banned

looks interesting. looking forward to the contest. -brodie

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@unknownuser said: Will be interesting to see how fast people take advantage of your offer.....cheers! Yeah. I found most of my friends don't care or find it a bit to BETA for their tastes. Thats why I'm offering it here. A bit more tech savvyness I'd think. We'll see.