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A number plate theft here. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?28,533146,533682

If it were Saturday's, they've a free chocolate offer to add to the temptation, and an 'intimate encounter' with Jilly Cooper. For Sunday, all they can offer, according to their promotional email, is the ability to claim a ?5 Body Shop voucher.

>I don't know if you've seen the letter in question I haven't, and I don't feel able to make any judgment without having done so.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Reminded of me when I was 17 and the bishop of Liverpool came to speak to my sixth > form. He said that those without faith couldn't have any morality. I stood up and shouted BS > accross the room...and then recounted everything bad (since as far back as my knowledge of history > would allow at that time) bad in the name of religion, finishing with Northern Ireland, as it > was the 80's. 'Is that what you mean by morality' I asked. The headmistress hung her head in > embarassment.....and the bishop? Well let's just say he wasn't expecting that. David Sheppard?

Medley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh that's why I saw one in town yesterday. That was probably for the unveiling of the Sir Keith Park statue. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,532662

Yes. There was a bit of a recording with him on Parkinson that was played on the radio recently - might be here http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/sir_keith_park - in which he expressed the opinion that we (ie our air defence) were a week away from defeat when AH switched to civilian targets.

You could have half-followed Alan Coren's example and made it Hoovering for Cats. Or even that of those operating systems providers who give a different animal name to each release ... Hoovering for Hedgehogs, Hoovering for Frogs, Hoovering for Au Pairs, ...

Thank you. :)

I've trawled through all of the website and still have no idea of the choir's repertoire.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Property marking kits reduce burglary by around 80%. You place a sticker at each potential door > and window entry point so burglars know they can't fence any of the valuable. James, where does that figure come from? Do you have a reference to something I can look up? And what happens to burglars who ignore the sticker on the door?

I've not recently seen them collecting from blue boxes, but I've got the impression from seeing lots of filled ones that the plastic+tin vs glass distinction no longer applies. Is that so? Many boxes now seem to use no divider, and the stuff still gets collected.

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://imageshack.us/ I've just tried it. It looks a good quick fix if you're happy with one of their pre-selected sizes, and no need even to register. Remember to view the _full-size_ version when the upload's done, then you can right click on that to copy its location for pasting in your forum ad.

Al&Em Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pasting it into a word doc usually works. But Word documents just add to bloat, surely. I use irfanview on a PC for all resizing. It's easy to install and use. http://www.irfanview.com

Matthew, there's a world of difference in style between your first two posts and the ones that look more like bad 'advertising features' of the sort that used to (? still do) appear in papers. If yours weren't genuine, you have skills that would be of value to a conman or MI5 operative.

I noticed a slight variant last week: two posters each starting with an initial innoccuous and symathetic follow-up post -- "Oh, I sympathise, the same thing happened to me once" kind of thing" -- which might go to establish them as good guys and belongers, followed a few days later by a more self-serving OP in their own thread. One now seems to have been disappeared. The other's involved in a more ambiguous scheme, but there's enough information about for buyers to beware.

binary_star Wrote: > take a look at the latest government data, specifically the graph on p. 15 here: > http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/hbai/hbai_2009/pdf_ files/full_hbai10.pdf Which is a 242 page 1.2MB PDF file of Households Below Average Income: An analysis of the income distribution 1994/95 ? 2008/09 from the DWP. I'm attaching a copy of page 15.

>Erm, it's a place to lock your bike for a short period of time. What additional functionality do you want? I was questioning whether it's needed at all, if the post is already there.

The cyclehoop is an attractive idea, but I'm wondering if it provides much additional functionality. AFAICS it just: 1) indicates that bike parking is officially sanctioned at that point 2) indicates preferred direction of parking 3) maybe makes it perhaps slightly more easy to tether one's beast. If you look at the lowest picture on p.1 of their site, the bike lock isn't even attached to the hoop. So I'd be interested in having a look at some in use. BTW, there is an online map showing all cycle parking stands in the borough, http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200123/cycling_in_southwark/442/cycle_parking_and_security. You can even get photos and details by clicking on the icons. It's a bit slow at the moment, but I'll see sometime if I can find any hoops on it.

And if the default Sky password isn't password, try sky. http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/view-routerstats.html

>I am sure that leaving your TV on stand-by does use up a reasonable amount of electricity - although > not oodles. Anyone know how much? Mine (same method as above): Sony CRT TV: 20W An oldish 15" LCD TV: 14W Sony VCR: 5W Freeview boxes: about 11W (little less than when on) Probably a saving of more than a kilowatt-hour a day by not having these things on standby. But if you look at the latest LCD TV specifications, they tend to have a standby power rating of one watt or less. If one of those was on standby continuously, that would cost you no more than 8.76 kilowatt-hours a year.

>What is a Speedtouch? Just a basic ADSL modem-router: four ethernet ports and wireless capability. >So when you say the wattage is that per hour? Nope, just plain watts. It's a unit of power, which is the rate of consumption of energy. Running at 4 watts over an hour will consume 4 watt-hours of energy, which is 0.004 (ie 1/250) kilowatt-hours, which is the unit the electricity companies use when charging you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt-hour

I've checked my Speedtouch ST585 using a plug-in power meter. It has ethernet (wired) connections to one computer and ADSL. Computer running, router wireless disabled: oscillates beween 4 and 7W. I'd estimate weighted average of 5W. Running Speedtest didn't affect the reading. Computer running, router wireless enabled: 7W. Computer off, router wireless disabled: 4W Computer off, router wireless enabled: 7W

I think the only question we've not asked is, ground or upper floor? I think we've probably rightly assumed the former. ;) Is there BTW any evidence that having a "Magic Water [or similar] used here" sticker on one's front door actually deters thieves? Any marking obviously increases their risk while the stuff's still in their possession, but it's the possession itself that's the greatest risk, and I assume that stolen gear gets disposed of pretty quickly.

Time of day? Front or back?