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The national anthem playing after the film in the cinema. To be honest, most people missed it, as there was a mad dash to leave during the closing credits, a tradition that continues to this day. The epilogue and national anthem on TV close down. This is the version we had in Australia, which I'd only seen in b/w until today.

Curries are the same - who can stand the hottest. A korma does me.

Huge phallic symbol appears near the Ageas Bowl on Boundary Lakes Golf Course (From Daily Echo) and it is visible on Google Maps https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9246774,-1.3179512,63m/data=!3m1!1e3

It's enforced by tradition - that's the way Windoze works and since we've been in the education business since the mid 1500s we like tradition. Anyway, so as not to incur the wrath of the gods mods. "Bing bong - Avon calling."

Still do that - it's enforced here. Back in the day, when I moved off big iron to PCs I remember pressing the turbo button to slow a game down so that I could win. (What ever happened to turbo buttons on PCs?)

A Very Precise Calculation of Exactly How Many Cows Are Being Murdered to Make the New Fivers | VICE | United Kingdom

Cracked it. regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons - add "179"="null.ico,0" Create a null.ico in c:\windows\system32

"Have you checked it's eight, one, none?" "Damn, I've dropped by punch card deck!" "Bugger! The decollator jammed again." "Ops, load printer control tape xyz onto the printer."

A list of tech advent calendars from Opensource.com

"I received an AOL CD in the morning post."

"I'm getting a pay rise."

Did they learn nothing the last time Joe Public was asked to name something? Oldham Council asks public to name road gritter - leading to some hilarious suggestions

Can you spot the message that was hidden in this picture for 12 years | Metro News

They were great - you could make a motorbike from three of them.

I just use window cleaner on ours and and one of those general purpose kitchen cloths that come in a pack, I use the same at home too. I also use it on iPads without any problems - gets rid of all those annoying greasy finger marks. At the mo it's Co-Op window cleaner and cloths, which were "Any 2 for £2". Sadly the Co-Op has just closed, so I guess it will be either Wilko's or Tesco's, depending what is cheapest. We had a bottle of Wico's before and it worked really well.

https://opensource.com/life/16/11/moodle-today

Agreed, a kettle and a cafetière is all you need for good office coffee. If you have a science block, get yourself a macchinetta and pop it on a Bunsen burner.

Just in - an alert from JANET (which doesn't affect us), but I am intrigued by what it means "Ticket Summary: Low optical light levels affecting the Kidderminster PoP to Ludlow PoP link" Does this mean their PoP servers are afraid of the dark?

At my last school all staff did fire extinguisher training and support staff did manual handling and ladder training (we needed it so we could use the tallescope). Where I am now, no training has been provided and I don't know how long the old training is valid for. Fire extinguisher training was fun - we each got to use a foam extinguisher. It was quite a windy day and one of the teachers had left his Caterham 7 downwind. Still there was no chance of the cockpit bursting into flames

I still use Usenet every day and I am a big fan of threading. I have no problem with tree structures - no doubt as a result of many years working with bills of materials, gantt charts and activity networks. Personally I'd like to see Usenet style Edugeek.

So, a student writes an email using IE and the language is American - honour underlined, honor not underlined. Student writes an email in Chrome and the language is English - honour not underlined, honor underlined The Office 365 setting is British English, as is the PC. This seems to happen to all students. Any ideas as to how to get proper English to work in IE?

I remember seeing that exact problem 8 or 9 years ago. I guess it's one that keeps coming back.

Problem solved! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pack-Plastic-Waterproof-Rain-Bonnets/dp/B00AUFKH30

What a good idea Paper bike helmet wins Dyson award - BBC News Here is their website EcoHelmet Of course, you need one of these to go with it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard_bicycle

In case you're brave "Besides being full of proprietary pentalobe screws, the new MacBook Pro has a battery that's glued to the case, and its processor, RAM and SSD are soldered to the logic board. Add to that the Touch Bar, which further complicates repairs, and you basically have no reason to ever open this MacBook Pro. The only thing you can hope to replace on your own is the trackpad..." The Touch Bar MacBook Pro teardown: Nearly impossible to repair