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Gawd. It's even been trailed for inclusion in the Radio 4 news Quiz, now on..

> He would need quite a large screen and buttons. I'm not elderly, but still always use a full-size keyboard and mouse plugged into my laptop when using it at home. I'd also plug in an external monitor if I wanted a screen bigger than the laptop's 15", or dual screens.

There's no point in doing anything until the application and associated papers are on-line. There'll then be a period of at least three weeks for making written representations, after careful consideration and, I hope, discussion: it's important to think carefully about the factors which the planning department can, or can not, take into account.

"Flame-haired temptress" is current terminology in Private Eye.

> Is the mock-up to scale John? I believe it is. I've downloaded all the documents from the previous application. They're at http://planningonline.southwarksites.com/planningonline2/AcolNetCGI.exe?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=9540494. The application itself was, though not stated explicitly, from blowUP media UK Ltd, whose corporate website is here. The picture John's uploaded is, I think, the one from their "Design and Access statement". A version of the picture, from the "Photographs and photomontages 2011-07-16" document, with 8m and 11m scale marks, is attached. Remember too that the sign was to be illuminated. I note that the consultation process invited opinions, apart from the required Statutory and Internal Consultees, from only 34 'neighbours'. If such a sign had gone up there, I'd have thought it, even if temporary, a spoiling and pollution of my neighbourhood, a drastic changing of its character for the worse; and I live half a mile away. The Design and Access statement [PDF 1,474kB] includes: "In order to generate revenue to alleviate the cost of the scaffolding for future refurbishment, the owner has entered into a formal agreement with blowUP media to seek the necessary planning consent for the display of advertisement as outlined in the following pages." ... "Whilst the building is undergoing the refurbishment works, the banner will certainly constitute a great advantage to the visual amenity; it will conceal an unsightly scaffold, add colour and interest to the street scene, and provide information to visitors and passers-by." Who is the owner of the Forester/Bishop?

I'm pleased to report that the new improved, refurbished, Lidl in Bellenden Road is now open again. A short yomp from Goose Green. The Old Kent Road Aldi is only eight minutes' brisk walk from Queens Road, Peckham station

Look what I've just found in the Private Eye Xmas 2007 Gnomovations Catalogue .

An email to postmaster@ their domain should in principle reach someone. If you enter a uk domain name in the Whois window at http://www.nominet.co.uk, you can get the address of the registrant (unless it's a private non-trading person who's said they don't want it revealed).

> I brought fish fingers from Iceland yesterday they were divine! Pieces of cod that pass all understanding. Sorry. I'll get my coat.

OTOH, a toaster with built-in netbook...

Will it also function as a urinal?

> Do they take away the blue boxes and blue bag for papers A poster believes not. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?9,747370

I'm still giving thanks for the absence of the prohibition on window envelopes. Having a window wallah in to remove the transparent bits was a very unwelcome expense. Please, no-one tell me it's still there.

Aren't we going to end up with more bins (green or brown particularly) that are very lightly loaded, say quarter full or less? Has this been so in the food waste pilot scheme? If so, has there been any sharing of bins, to make the collection process a bit more efficient?

Southwark waste/recycling changes from first week of October.

> Your views? Your views?

Your views?

The Southwark Consultation is here. I believe I've recently read that the deadline has been extended to 30 September. The forum's Honor Oak Rec threads are here.

gg, the only reason I can see for your publicly posting even these moderately unspecific details at this stage is that you'd be happy with the issue being remedied without any official action.

> Ian, you will find a copy of Southwark life (published by the council) on the website as a PDF and it is listed in that. TY. Copied here. [ed: extracted from the full Southwark Life autumn 2011 edition (PDF, 3 MByte) downloadable here]

>From Southwark Life >Web: www.southwark.gov.uk/ Yet no mention at all found on the Southwark web site, in five minutes of multi-route searching, even under the 4 November listings on the Events pages.

> Went to Maplin and you wont belive it, i was told to put my dongle in a plastic bag so it dont get wet and put it on the roof > and run a usb cable from dongle to laptop,i know i`m Irish but... The maximum recommended length for a plain USB 2.0 cable is only 5 metres, so maybe not very sensible. But for within your shop, maybe not such a bad suggestion. You can get 5 metre repeater cables, at ?10ish a time, that you can link together up to about 25 metres, but that sounds awfully precarious to me.

I suspect going through Wikipedia meta-records, for all their admirability on some counts, is a reserved occupation for the inhabitants of some of the outer circles of hell. But here's one telling snippet, his own words, from his Wikipedia 'User talk' page: "I'll tell you something else that's generally frowned on in wikipedia: inserting lies into entries, blatantly trying to impose your POV on entries of people you hate, imposing your own political bias, insulting real people as sockpuppets... I could go on, and you probably did know not to do it. The way you are disregarding the wiki rules and authorities is appalling." --- David r from meth productions 23:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC) There seem to me, incidentally, to have been some remarkable efforts by some of the Wikipedia editors/commentators to be fair-minded in the previous absence of absolutely compelling evidence. Even now there also seems to be split opinion as to which his more serious fault was, the plagiarism or the Wikipedia manipulations, and a willingness not to automatically downrate assessments of some of his journalism.

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Was discussing this with a friend today. We concluded that an exhaustive list of the people > whose Wikipedia bios he'd changed, with individual apologies, would have been appropriate. I felt > that the anonymous Wiki-changing bit was rather brief, and it was such an appalling thing to do. The list of changes (done under any known user name of his) is actually available. Go to the User:David r from meth productions Wikipedia page, and click on 'contributions'. For any of them, click on the 'diff' link to see the changes he made. The random one I looked at added purported details of a person's criminal record.

I don't know what effect these relentlessly marching Reds have on their enemies, but, by God, they frighten me.