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> I'm much more interested about my sighting of Stephen Fry this morning, on London Bridge, walking a sheep on a lead. Her name is Grace. I hope they'll be very happy together.

Arne Dahl is amazing. I walked round the whole town centre last year and saw not a single charity shop.

Published 28 March 2013 Dulwich library detail Southwark Council has announced that Dulwich Library on Lordship Lane will now re-open on Monday 15 April 2013 and not on Monday 8 April as previously advised. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/article/1195/revised_opening_date_for_dulwich_library

They most probably rang or knocked at the door several times first, and kicked their way in when there was clearly no response. If she'd heard them, and answered, they'd have asked if their friend lived there.

Lentil currite ...

> The majority of broadband third party resellers are effectively sub contracting share of BT fixed bandwidth. But I assume the complaints this time are about Virgin's dedicated high bandwidth Cable service -- it's that section of the forum - rather than the BT POTS one that VM call National. I wouldn't be at all surprised about their being overcommitted. I'm on their National service, and experienced over a year of seeing my downloads instantly capped to 2 Mb/s, long after my service had been upgraded so that at startup each day it routinely synched at 8 Mb/s.

Even better idea: send them off on holiday with twelve Facebook friends they've never met.

Scheduled departures from ED and Denmark Hill seem back to normal now, with the exception of the cancelled 14.06 to CLJ and 14:42 to Highbury.

That sounds clear. It's a new problem to me, that I don't understand, but you can find others reporting similar partial inabilities to read from optical drives. Some of them report lens cleaning has helped, some not. Internal optical drives are in any case easy to replace, should it turn out to be a hardware problem. I don't understand your point about ripping to mp3 from external optical drives. Where is the stuff saying you need a very expensive one? If I want to make an mp3 copy of an audio CD I use separate free software -- a Digital Audio Extractor, and WinLame for the conversion -- rather than whatever comes with the operating system. I do that from an internal optical drive, but don't know of any reason why an external drive would be treated any differently. And I suspect that any ripping software built into the operating system would similarly not be bothered about whether a drive was internal or external. Someone who owns an external opptical drive can, I hope, clarify that point.

> The CD drive on my laptop has packed up for all except data discs. It won't read CDs or DVDs Better clarify this. Are your data disks not CDs or DVDs? What does Windows Explorer (assuming you're running Windows) tell you of the drive contents if you insert a music CD or video DVD?

"Distruption due to Earlier person Hit by a train at Queens Road Peckham" EDW Live Departures here: http://www.southernrailway.com/your-journey/live-running-information/EDW/departures/

MarkE Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks Leaf - I don't wish to hijack this thread, I was just curious whether there was an > alternative way to obtain that information (as the askmid website requires one to declare that they > are the vehicle's owner before perfoming such a check). You can get the registered details of the vehicle at https://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/app/home/intro/. If you want to know the name and address of the registered keeper you can apply to DVLA giving reasonable cause for your enquiry. http://www.dft.gov.uk/dvla/data/relinfo/howtorequest.aspx.

Robin Crookshank Hilton wrote: > There is currently a consultation out by the PCT which will determine how much of the site will need to be retained for medical use. Which PCT I think no longer exists as of yesterday. http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/collection/128712710/page/1 Do we have a reference for its particular replacement body or bodies? Can we assume that all its papers, including archives, and ongoing activities have been automatically inherited?

Italics Begone.

No, just not familiar with some areas of consumption. I've only recently done a small upgrade from a Nokia 1100. I assume from what you say that the iPhone's got a built-in battery -- it must at least surely be replaceable? -- but my advice was general anyway.

For any remaining gunge you really need to have a look at any system components, especially circuit boards, and to try gently swabbing off any deposits with isopropyl alcohol. Even then, largely a matter of luck as to whether any permanent damage hasn't been done. To increase your odds after such accidents, always remove the battery immediately. I'd be inclined to also wash the thing out with purish water at that stage.

> A house in 1959 dont know where. It is, as it says on the outside, in Cardiff. The photograph turns up in Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's Folk Archive exhibition, entitled Paiinted House, Cardiff, Wales, 2001. A note says the tenant was airing a long-standing grievancve wih the the council. (Warmning: if you go to the British Council site hosting a replica of the whole exhibition - the pic's on the fourth floor - it gratuitously pre-downloads 40MB on you, including some videos.)

To quote the Southwark consultation page that Eileeen's pointed to, "Where can see more detail plans?"

I thought tarmac was a fairly stable substance. Perhaps they mean that the reconstruction work failed.

The initial Accrington Observer article is here: http://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/news/local-news/accrington-schools-letter-parents-tells-1273948 And a copy of Littlejohn's is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20121226073921/http:/www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2251347/Nathan-Uptons-wrong-body--hes-wrong-job.html. If you go to the page, www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2251347/Nathan-Uptons-wrong-body--hes-wrong-job.html, from which the archive copy was made, you are redirected to another version, from which the relevant article is absent. At http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/03/press-regulation-freedom-speech-and-death-lucy-meadows is a piece by Jane Fae who has seen some of Lucy Meadows' emails about the behaviour of some of the press.

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I hope you are right and that op did it > unwittingly. Anyway its gone now lets hope we can > avoid anymore such stuff appearing here. You accused the original poster, ChainshotCannon, of publishing a photo here as "a way to trick us into publicising the scummy edl." If, an hour later, you apparently concede that you don't truly know or believe that , you should have the decency and integrity to explicitly withdraw your allegation and apologise.

Let's hope we can avoid unnecessary or unwarranted censorship and vilification,.

the-e-dealer wrote: > It appears The photo was a way to trick us into publicising the scummy edl. > No interest was shown in an edittedphoto to help the collection of evidence. We need to be vigilant. > Thanks to quick admin for removing. I didn't see anything in the post or in the poster's (ChainshotCannon) history to lead me to that conclusion. I didn't experience the handwritten note that had been stuck up inside a lift in the block of flats, or the photo of it that was posted here, as inflammatory or propagandic, though I did wonder at the perceived need for posting about it. There are plenty of other instances of flyposting and unpermitted advertising that I'd happily see prosecuted, but this single notice in a lift seemed to me more evidence of the unhappiness of the person who produced it than of anything else, and I doubt that any heavyhanded anti-racist action, via the police or otherwise, is to any point. I see that several of the poster's other posts seem now to have been deleted, and hope that 'vigilance' has not been overdone. Whatever I've missed, I hope that someone will post details of the actual evidence that it was a trick.

I expect many of us have 3.5" drives that we could use to copy the files to a CD or whatever, but if Foxy has a USB drive that he can lend you to use on your own machine, that sounds the best offer.

I'll mosey on down there tomorrow to have a look. I hope whatever is being done is handled more efficiently than seemed the case in 2010, when they installed planning notices and road markings for a cycle contraflow in Bellenden Road, only to eventually remove them all. See the second page of the forum thread about it here: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,549542,564166#msg-564166