El Pibe

reading Marc Morris' The Norman Conquest. Very good, well worth it and makes you realise how little we were taught about this period bar the headline soundbites (most of which are simplistic, dubious, misleading or plain myth). The first hundred pages provides fascinating insight into the background. I did find lots of references to Cnut and Harthacnut constantly gave a jolt gievn waht we konw abuot how we inerrptet wodrs on the paeg

Eh? Personal spats is what makes the forum fun. If you want dry appraisal go to Which magazine ;-P

Sounds like the correct response to the situation there James ;) BUt you're right, given the pretensions of the business, it would be more in keeping for them to offer a more 'sustainable' menu. I guess they might argue it comes from local farms or somesuch missing the point that local artisan produce is an entirely unsustaiable approach to population/climate change pressures. Mind you, they can't even decide what day they're opening....

scary google barges http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24819850 Having read Cryptonomicon, Google's foray into electronic money springs to mind. As per the book this will doubtless lead to offshore banking, money laundering, ruthless corporate exploitation, scary gangsters and so on. The start of Google's descent into evil empire begins here people (or may have started with the tianamen square thingy, or the NSA thingy, or street view and UN black helicopters if you read the right places)

"Channel 4 Toast of London. Oh you'll laugh all right" A new sitcom set in a gastro wine bar in suburban south east london?

Band of Brothers was excellent. Pacific wasn't quite as good. It enjoys the same excellent production values, and almost obsessive attention to historical accuracy, but it was difficult to differntiate between many of the characters. And it seems churlish to complain, given that these people actually went through it for real, but there were too many battle scenes that were, from a dramatic perspective, too samey and kind of overwhelmingly horrific.

Plus time goes faster for crumblies, so even a ten minute wait isn't much ;)

:-D

I loved this comment on Ianr's article "Perhaps I should leave a note of my birthday in my wallet ? it has nothing to do with any of my PINs and invites any attacker to waste one of their three guesses!"

Aaaah, so we're not necessarily talking banking PINs but iPhone unlocks and suchlike? I guess if you're going to lock your phone thus you really oughtn't to bother locking the damn thing in the first place. I did try using face recognition for a bit, but it didn't like my glasses, and in the end they're all a bit of a pain, so I don't bother at all. My banking PIN is 1243, see what I did there? Hide in plain sight!!!!

apparently eurocheque doesn't allow the user to select. But that's a point, considering the bank sends you the initial PIN on a seperate letter for security reasons, what idiot then goes and changes it to 1234? I'd have thought anybody that stupid would probably be unaware you can actually change the damn thing in the first place. And how was this survey done? "excuse me sir, I'm doing a survey on PIN selection, can you give me your PIN please?" All sounds a bit dubious to me ;)

Admittedly, the only time I went to the Artesian Well I got so drunk I decided to walk home and slept in someone's doorway for a few hours, whilst my mate fell asleep in the bogs and woke locked in the pub in the wee hours and had to wait til staff turned up to get out.

everything you ever wanted to know.... http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ec-pin-prob.pdf assuming the banks' algorithms for pin generation are good then foxy is basically right. It would appear that they're not all so good though, and definitely sounds like EuroCheque is a damn good place to start for your aspiring PIN guessing thief

Almer?a is the sunniest point in Europe. Should be pleasant at this time of year, very nice right now http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=weather+spain#q=weather+almeria+spain&safe=off I remember playing footie on the beach there one christmas and it was very mild and sunny. But as townley says, no guarantees in the Med, you'd have to go further to be fairly sure of winter sun.

Is it my imagination or are UDT and DJKQ having a barney?

wow, I think my arteries hardened just looking at a picture of the box!!

It's all a lot less intrusive than all those amazon adverts that use your cookies to bombard you with related search type stuff. Most notiecable whenever La Piba has been buying nail clippers or the like.

Nice bit of melted cheese on it perchance? ;-)

Ah, vintage stuff!

excellent work christian science's architect. http://gawker.com/christian-science-church-looks-like-a-giant-dick-from-s-1454084292 it's true!! https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=West+2nd+Street,+Dixon,+IL,+United+States&hl=en&ll=41.841816,-89.485708&spn=0.002945,0.003878&sll=34.06305,-118.265199&sspn=0.003275,0.003878&oq=West+2nd+Street,+dix&hnear=W+2nd+St,+Dixon,+Lee,+Illinois+61021,+United+States&t=h&z=18

To be fair every single news providers' comments read like Private Eye's "From The Messageboards"

Wow 18 months. That chap on motorway cops who caused a serious accident, driving with no licence, having previously killed people in a car, got less than that. Football fans in ignorant, racist song shocker! Still, twonks, my sympathies for their plight are zilch!!

Someone called precious thinks it's beyond fabulous http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/le-chandelier-london-2

Minor improvements. I liked the final line in the Indy review "Her storyline this episode, in which she and her psychopathic love interest eloped, was reaching for Badlands, but ended up being more like Twilight. Her mother Jessica wants a solution to her bad behaviour. For all our sakes, just pack her off to a school for delinquents somewhere far, far away. Morgan Saylor is a perfectly fine young actress, but I feel she's destined to forever be Homeland's Jar Jar Binks."

I went to India a few years back and got my just before I left at a medicentre. THe nurse asked me when I was off, I said 'tommorow' and she said 'oh, well they won't offer you any immunity for about 2 weeks'. I was only going for 2. Doh!! Can't remember which ones specifically mind.