Josco

This is my Room 101. The view from my new office window. Below ground level overlooking the rat infested Lady Beck, an open drain that runs through Leeds. I love my new employers......

In this case I don't mind much, as I received a PM with similar content, but I do not like PMs being discussed or quoted in the forum. From now on I'll bin such posts on sight. regards, Hein I'd never discuss a PM, but then again I never get any......

definitely Bollox.

Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII at a guess.

It was written and directed by Matthew Vaughan... You are correct, mea culpa. In my defence Josco Junior did say it was Guy Ritchie, I never saw the DVD case and it is 'Ritchiesque'

Josco Junior insisted that I watch The Layer Cake (Guy Ritchie film) one evening last week. Reluctantly agreed...... What a fabulous, complex and riveting movie. Thoroughly recommended.

In fact it is safe to assume that most of your stuff can be recovered if you want it. Take the hard disk to a recovery expert and they will try. Don't do this if you have anything you shouldn't have on the disk :-) I have seen this kind of thing a couple of times and the answer MAY be to try to 'slave' the laptop disk to a desktop pc. It then is effectively a second HDD to the desktop and files can be copied to the C: drive for safekeeping. Then format the laptop drive, install back to laptop and install OS (Windows, Ubuntu, Whatever) Lots of info on web about slaving......

Low hanging fruit I suspect.

On a similar note Josco, I recently acquired a 32Gb iPhone 4. This being my first interaction with this generation of smartphone, I've got to admit, it's the duck's nut. I flirted with an older iPhone and liked it but (but the battery life irritated me) and when it was time for renewal I got an HTC Desire (android). It was great, and I liked the control, but due to encroaching middle age I found the screen too small and Internet browsing consequently irksome. So I've splashed out on the iPad (upon which I am typing this missive), ditched the android and returned to a Nokia 6700 Classic. Later next year when the dust has settled I may acquire an iPhone4.

My iPad Yes, they're over priced Yes, they're tacky and ostentatious Yes, you're tied in to Apple (and No, I have not jail broken it) Yes, I love it Please don't tell Mrs Josco what it really cost, I didn't want the 16Gb WiFi only version.

I was on the next table to Fred Trueman many moons ago enjoying a Gourmet Dinner (7 courses and accompanied by fine wines). He was loud and loquacious which was fairly annoying in itself, but after the second course he lit his pipe and continued to stoke it up for the rest of the evening. Apart from that most celebrities give me a wide berth.

I went on Dragon's Den the other night and showed them my old dad's shotgun. Peter Jones asked "And what's your idea?" I replied "It's a simple concept Peter, just put the money in the bag and shut the fuck up."

Or you could put the link in 'clear' http://www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/

Is that with a silent C ?

A man wakes up in the hospital, bandaged from head to foot. The doctor comes in and says, "Ah, I see you've regained consciousness. Now, you probably won't remember, but you were in a pile-up on the motorway. You're going to be okay, you'll walk again and everything, but...."Something happened. I'm trying to break this gently, but the fact is, your willy was chopped off in the wreck and we were unable to find it." The man groans, but the doctor goes on, "You've got ﾣ9000 in insurance compensation coming and we have the technology now to build you a new willy that will work as well as your old one did - better in fact! But the thing is, it doesn't come cheap, it's ﾣ1000 an inch." The man perks up at this. "So," the doctor says, "It's for you to decide how many inches you want. But it's something you'd better discuss with your wife. I mean, if you had a five inch one before, and you decide to go for a nine incher, she might be a bit put out. But if you had a nine inch one before, and you decide only to invest in a five incher this time, she might be disappointed. So it's important that she plays a role in helping you make the decision." The man agrees to talk with his wife. The doctor comes back the next day. "So," says the doctor, "have you spoken with your wife?" "I have," says the man. "And what is the decision?" asks the doctor. "We're having granite worktops."

Ah... Blakes Seven. A masterpiece.

Ahem! Oops. Sorry HCW. I'll return my royalty cheque. Josco has left the building and gone all weak.

George Michael has settled well in prison. He's already written a song about his 'skin head' cellmate. It will be his new single called "Hairless Fister". I thank you, I'm here all week.

At what point is one considered to be a genius? For myself I've never done an IQ test, but my academic performance at school was woeful to say the least. (I can't do sport either.... or art.... or anything really.) In fact the only qualification that I have earned or passed has been my driving license. And they've taken that off me twice. They say genius is next to madness, so maybe I do qualify in a liminal manner.

Thank you one and all for the kind birthday wishes and apologies for not noticing sooner. I am indeed a 'Double Nickle' but all those dreams of retiring early are in tatters......

No, I too don't really like it although I do have a page (Is that the mot juste?) I won't have my picture on it and although I have responded to 'friends' requests I generally just ignore them and log on about once a fortnight(ish). My super HTC Desire has Facebook built in and I am amazed and unnerved at how it all hangs together. In cyberspace there is nowhere to hide..............

Plagiarised from the BBC...Sorry 1) Tim Vine "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again." 2) David Gibson "I'm currently dating a couple of anorexics. Two birds, one stone." 3) Emo Philips "I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them." 4) Jack Whitehall "I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say 'bought', I actually stole it off a short, fat ginger kid." 5) Gary Delaney "As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog." 6) John Bishop "Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day." 7) Bo Burnham "What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names." 8) Gary Delaney "Dave drowned. So at the funeral we got him a wreath in the shape of a lifebelt. Well, it's what he would have wanted." 9) Robert White "For Vanessa Feltz, life is like a box of chocolates: Empty." 10) Gareth Richards "Wooden spoons are great. You can either use them to prepare food. Or, if you can't be bothered with that, just write a number on one and walk into a pub…"

C# programming..... <RANT> I wrote our company Intranet using notepad and a lot of trial and error with HTML and ASP. It has been a great success but I sweated blood over it (as I not a programmer). I always likened code to Shakespeare; I can read Shakespeare, I can understand Shakespeare but I'm buggered if I can write like Shakespeare. Now it has been decided that asp is old hat and a little dated (which it is) and it needs redoing in C#. I just don't understand it. I cannot get the SQL connections to work with any consistency, sometimes my code returns data, sometimes on another page with identical code it doesn't.... I am tearing my hair out and am seriously considering a career change. IT and technology are leaving me behind. That Shelf Stacking job at the local supermarket is becoming very attractive..... </RANT>

For me neither.... And they don't really go with brogues. Android or iPhone?

LOL - special guest status would be fitting but we will have to ask NAP. I'm sure it's going to happen again on the 30th October. Same place as DL Con III will do (that's not the place you found us on DL Con's I & II). Well I couldn't on the 30th of October. The 23rd would be all right and so would the 13th of November. The 6th of November might be a bit tricky. Do you really want Bellender to come? He can be a bit overbearing at times. Not sure I'd want anyone with that name to serve me anything, thanks.