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Hope you get this sorted out soon. It takes long enough to rank up so I'm sure you don't want to do it all again! Good card - I'm pleased with my Sapphire 6870.

Congrats, both. Dragonslayer, your given X-Fire name turns up a blank when I try to add it and there are multiple dragonslayers on the list.

In case any of you fear that celebrating is sinful... Cheers!

To those for whom today has great significance, I send my best wishes! As an English Celt, I'll be celebrating on 23 April - St George's Day!

Happy Birthday, Mark!

Hot off the press... BAFTA Best Online Multiplayer game is BF3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/16/bafta-video-game-awards-2012-live

How very compassionate...

Any links to reports on any clinical trials?

I buy it often for fishing...

Q: What's the difference between Iron Man and Iron Woman? A: One's a movie character and the other is a command...

Free to a Good Home Our house was broken into last night by two robbers who locked me in the bathroom, and proceeded to steal all they could carry. Our watchdog did not alert us at all, and for this reason we are giving him away. We no longer want this dog, and have decided instead to install an electric fence and detection devices with alarms. They're cheaper to maintain and definitely more reliable. For those interested in adopting the dog, please send an e-mail immediately. Although he is somewhat unreliable, he really is a lot of fun to hang out with: The dog is a Norwegian Beer Hound... you can tell he is 100% purebred.

ZEN TEACHINGS 1. Do not run behind me, for I may not lead. Do not run ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not run beside me for the path is narrow. In fact, just piss off and leave me alone. 2. Sex is like air. It's not that important unless you aren't getting any. 3. No one is listening until you fart. 4. Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else. 5. Never test the depth of the water with both feet. 6. If you think nobody cares whether you're alive or dead, try missing a couple of mortgage payments. 7. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. 8. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. 9. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. 10. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably well worth it. 11. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. 12. Some days you are the dog, some days you are the tree. 13. Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time. 14. Good judgment comes from bad experience and most of that comes from bad judgment. 15. A closed mouth gathers no foot. 16. There are two excellent theories for arguing with women. Neither one works. 17. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving. 18. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. 19. We are born naked, wet and hungry, and get slapped on our arse. Then things just keep getting worse. 20. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Looks like the solution is that he loses the Netflix account. I can't alter settings on his machine and the router I have doesn't support QoS. Maybe that'll teach him to speak to the provider before he uses the service!

My son has recently signed up with Netflix. He did not consult me even though it is on my broadband connection (optimised for gaming) that he views his movies. I find that, whilst he is streaming Netflix content, I am unable to connect to XI COD5 servers as my ping is so high (250+). I have warned him that he may have to cancel his Netflix account but wonder if there is a solution whereby I may throttle the portion of bandwidth that his machine uses, perhaps at the router. I don't believe my current router supports this but have heard of something called "QoS" that may be the solution to my problems. I do have an "analogue" solution, of course... If I yank the connection to the router from his room upstairs, everything is solved! Any ideas that would be less likely to provoke conflict?

Oh...hell! Let's make amends for that... Love this song....

Welcome, BeerGoat!

Here's an excuse to share a clip from a favourite movie, based on a book by a favourite scientist and author of mine...

PECANS IN THE CEMETERY On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts. 'One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me,' said one boy. Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence. Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, 'One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me...' He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along. 'Come here quick,' said the boy, 'you won't believe what I heard! Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls!' The man said, 'Beat it kid, can't you see it's hard for me to walk.' When the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to the cemetery. Standing by the fence they heard, 'One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.' The old man whispered, 'Boy, you've been tellin' me the truth. Let's see if we can see the Lord...? Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord. At last they heard, 'One for you, one for me. That's all. Now let's go get those nuts by the fence and we'll be done... They say the old man had the lead for a good half-mile before the kid on the bike passed him.

Only PingLo can define what he means by "Christ Movie". Anything with Dawkins in it is unlikely to feature the life and mission of Our Lord. Indeed, I'd expect it to be an unsuccessful attempt to "disprove" the truth. Dawkins represents a good example of the arrogance of science yet he has a humility that was recently revealed when he admitted that he could not disprove the existence of God. That was, at least, honest of him. See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105834/Career-atheist-Richard-Dawkins-admits-fact-agnostic.html

Who's building it?

Mel Gibson's film was recommended to me by the local parish priest. I bought it but haven't summoned up the courage to watch it yet... Not a movie to be "enjoyed"...

I was feeling mischievous at work, one day, when filling in a bug report for some in-house software we used. Q: What were you doing when the error message appeared? A: Eating a ham sandwich.

:hrhr: Very good!

This is my favourite - Robert Powell (Jesus) and Ian McShane (Judas) are magnificent in it. http://youtu.be/1dNXCeDKohY

May I introduce you to one of our local alternative rock bands... My godson, Neil, is the drummer of "A Thousand Lights" and they have been in the studio, this last weekend... Enjoy!