Earthling

Never, ever underestimate the power of human stupidity.

+1 for the hammer, though I prefer a 4lb club-hammer in close conjunction with a 4" or 6" nail.

WebHelpDesk in use here for about 4 years now. Web Help Desk - Powerful and Affordable Help Desk Software Regular updates, asset managment, call-logging, simple to manage and populate, reporting, all sorts of stuff. Very, very pleased with it.

Touch wood.......... I think I'm being realistic when I think that it WILL happen sooner or later. Hotmail was always being hacked every couple of years and I'm sure Windows Live will be just as much a target, if (maybe) a bit harder to crack. But hey, if it works for you, good luck. I have other reasons for not wanting to go Live@Edu, too. That's just one of them.

Well, I was contracting when I was doing that so fuel costs, proportion of car expenses were all tax-deductible. I was thinking more of the stress of driving long-distances in torrential rain......and snow.......and fog, most of all, fog.

I've just installed Skydrive app on my laptopm to see what it's all about. I'm still not really sure about it, or any 'cloud' based storage, that will potentially have student confidential data saved to it. It's a MS app after all, and it's Windows Live based, which to my mind, makes it a target for hacking, password-publishing and all the rest of it. One of the reasons I gave for retaining our Exchange server and not migrating to Live@Edu. I'm firmly of the opinion that, if we used Live@Edu or Skydrive or Dropbox here, someone, somewhere here would store something confidential, their account would get hacked amongst thousands of others and it would all end in tears........and I'm too short-time for that.

Chucking it down here too, in Hertfordshire. Have to say, I am so glad I don't have to drive all over Herts, Essex, Cambs and all stations North to Lincoln anymore, especially in weather like this. Living so close to school has its disadvantages, but it has its advantages too.

I can't believe Delta Wing and They Stole a Million aren't in that list, and Elite only managed 16th.

Probably never be able to drink anything else, more like.

Over the years, I've answered 'Yes' to all of those.........certainly is getting time to put in my papers.

Omigod. Ikari Warriors. I can still hear the theme music.

I always found the promise of a couple of barley wines and a fish supper was enough. Ohhhh..........you mean the cars. My mistake.

Another One Bites the Dust. Saturday afternoon.......6.5 Special......before Top of the Pops was even a frame on someone's storyboard. He was on a couple of other programs too, but it's all so long ago now

That's the only real benefit. I mean 'difference'. No, on second thoughts, I mean benefit.

100 meg Synchronous

The most accurate decription I ever heard of F1 was 'A 200mph catwalk'.

12V.....same as electric train sets and Scalextrics, I believe, at least my old train set was. I miss my train set.

I just noticed this post...........is OpFlash still alive and well? Or was that years ago?

But not Black Sheep, presumably.

<--------------- And it's a Happy Birthday from him.

By and By? You counted the number of CCTV cameras in your borough lately. It's here already. I hate these itty-bitty, baby-step, one by one corrosions of personal freedom. All justified by that Old Saw, 'Honest law-abiding citizens have nothing to worry about'......... Oh Yeah? Just my two-pennorth, after a week off with flu.

Before I came here, when I worked in the big wide world, suit and tie were de rigeuer for site and field engineers. I wore a suit and tie on my first day here, and was politely asked not to, as the students 'Might think you're a teacher'. Heaven forfend.

Yeah, congratulations, grandkids are great.....all of the good stuff, none of the bad.

Ho hum................join the long (but distinguished) list of people that I've disappointed at some time or another.

I tell you what, let's not go any further otherwise we'll get to the 'Put on women's clothing' bit and things might get.........confused, shall we say.