Being self-employed there was no mandatory (or even voluntary) All Hallows Eve dress sort of affair. However, I did attend a party last Friday night and this was me. I was surprised by the number of people who actually tried to light me on fire. I had a burlap sack head piece but I could not see - or breathe - so it did not last long. [image: RUtE_Halloween.jpg]

When my granddad was 84 I was about to turn thirty and thinking I should maybe grow up a bit...so I asked him what it felt like to be his age. Classic answer: "Not a bit different than when I was your age...until I look in the mirror...or try to get out of the lazyboy." Best, Tom.

Excellent! Glad to help. It is no problem working with the laptop lid closed (known as clamshell mode), AFAIK. You should check out this site: http://forums.macrumors.com/index.php If you can't get an answer to a Mac question there, the answer is more than likely NO

Holy rusted metal Batman, that stuff is incredible Thanks for sharing Paul.

great stuff, as usual, steven.. loving it. keep updating.

Good find! bookmarked, and will give it a proper read later or over the weekend.

Ok what are you having? Actually though once I'd paid off my ten year old university debts and those intermittent loans from my dad I'm only marginally more solvent than I was before.

Eric, Thanks for the link. I have been doing some pro-bono work for an organization called "Every Child Ministries" headquartered in Hebron, Indiana, that has a regular program of building shelters, schools, clinics etc. in Africa - recently in Congo. I have forwarded the interview with Sinclair to the director. They typically load up one or two ship containers of materials and equipment and take it to wherever they are working and build pretty much conventional structures -- maybe this will give them something to think about, it certainly has given me some thoughts. Thanks again Jim

Low-cal solution: Guinness.

Here in the US folk like to box other folk into polical affiliations. If you are gay then you are a liberal, if you hunt you are conservative, if you own a prius you are liberal, if you have a hummer you are conservative...etc, etc. The AM radio bands here are riddled with political pundits and religious inforcers, fueling arguments all through the day, selling millions in adverts and getting wealthy in the course of it, to them it's entertainment, to the listeners it's a serious issue that requires debate and conversion of those with a different opinion. No wonder Mc Carthyism worked so well.

Hello, it is the Kieler Woche, the greatest sailing sporting event in the world and at the same time the biggest summer festival in northern Europe. cu Wolf http://www.kieler-woche.de

if I get to die on the moon I'm still in... posted by Krisidious

pretty neat stuff, I'm disappointed you can't zoom in on the planets though...

i had no idea either... i kept wondering why Mike was so proud of that exceptionally large bluetooth headset... that's too funny.

Ah yeah, he has a foundation for people fuffering from leukemia, for instance. On the "Three tenors" he said they will never substitute Pavarotti, who has retired being seriously ill now, with another tenor so most probably they won't have the "Three tenors" set up again

It is there, Tom - "called" like "Image sizes" now.

She is cute, and the laugh I could live with, it is the smoking that turns me off. [image: NastySmiley-prev.jpg]

someone ate the case!?

In my younger years I used to share a house with some other mates. Things went great, they had their parties and fair share of women suitors. One lady, in specific, caught my eye (let's not mention she was a swimwear model at that time) but I never thought anything about it because she and my friend had stuff going on. So about two years later in another town (an hour's drive from the previous) I was sharing a house with some mates again. One morning, as I was on my way out to work there is this knock on the door. I open. o_O There she was standing, in front of me. I was like, WTF?! It turns out she had some stuff going on with one of my (now other) mates. That was very unsettling to say the least. Small world we live in.

I saw an article about the McLaren Technology Centre in an auto magazine. It seems that the building is both an architectural triumph and an expression of it's director's mental health. Here's a quote I found on-line from http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/november/mclaren.htm @unknownuser said: Indeed, the building has become something of a built expression of Ron Dennis himself. Many of the operative features of the building are a result of his personal ethic, such as his clean desk policy, a rule of no food or drink in desk areas, his hatred of blinds, pipes and cables ("How can a mind be right if under the desk is a chaos of wires?") and his no-touching plan for many office systems, such as the lavatories, in which the flush, soap dispenser, tap and dryer are all operated by sensor. Dennis wants to achieve a space that attracts and facilitates the best minds in the business through what boils down to social engineering. The problem is that the metaphor of the building as an extension of McLaren's F1 cars reduces the people inside it to cogs and valves For me, that changes the beautiful space into something a little sinister.