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I've never owned a Citroen before, although I gather they are one of the more reliable French brands. I gave up on French cars after my Renault Scenic RX4 proved to be an unreliable mish-mash of random components (they would buy in from various parts suppiers as the production went along according to a garage I took it too). Loved my 205GTi back in the day though. And don't even get me started on Series 2 Discoveries!

My brother had one of those. I don't think he even changed the oil once in the two or three years he had it!

Weird, I was just about to post this up. I'm on episode 8 now and am quite invested in it. A good story with just enough reveals each episode to keep you going. I'm using it as a surrogate Reacher The main male lead, Gabriel Basso, is a bit wooden though IMO.

I was having a chat with some friends the other day where we were discussing cars that we had all owned (a surprising amount of Ford Capri 2.8's featured for some reason!) and when it came to mine I had missed one out as it was so obscure and forgettable, that I left it out of my list. A couple of other also remembered cars that were so niche or unforgettable they too had missed them off their lists. Mine was a Daewoo Leganzo which I owned in the early 2000's. It was a rather good car, right up until its cylindar head cracked (it had a GM 2.0 engine)! It would have been a lot prettier if it wasn't for the radiator grill! I got it as an almost emergency purchase after my early 90's BMW 3 series rotted to death! Anyone else had a car that has slipped from the collective consciousness or was just so obscure that hardly anyone can place it when you tell them?

I'll give you that. It's the binder you got with a TechNet subscription For a measly £100-ish per annum you got a whole raft of software goodies land each month, as well as (IIRC) three free support calls to Microsoft. Not only did this include 'trial' versions of all their software, but you got beta's and lots of other tools and service packs too. It also came with full licence keys for everything! It was an essential spend back in the day. They finally killed it (after moving it to an online version only) in 2013. It is sadly missed.

Close, it's Microsoft, but a lot more exciting than that. When these used to drop it was like my being 13 again and 2000AD dropping through the letter box on a Saturday!

Whilst not hardware, this is (or was) most definitely tech!

I'd try uninstalling it, just to see if that fixes it.

A hidden add-on? I'm running W10 on my desktop still and just fired up IE only to have it drag my system down too. Support for IE ended last year and I'm wondering if the current version of W10 is just giving it a stiff ignoring. Did she startup/use IE, or is it just the process running in the background unbidden? Saying that, I've not used IE in years

Got Big Jet TV showing on my second monitor at a very windy Heathrow with rain just about to come in. I love watching the skill of the pilots in such conditions

I'm enjoying it a lot too. I have to admit though, dragging almost every living member of 90's Trek back for appearences is beginning to annoy me for some reason. How long before we see O'Brian I wonder?

Sadly, anyone can make 'Tupperwear' these days, and for not a lot of financial outlay either. Mind you, I can remember the Tupperwear Parties in the 70's and pretty much everyone had some somewhere in the house.

The next film I have lined up is Life of Brian on Thursday with my son. He's not seen any Python films yet. Dukes Theatre in Lancaster have it on the big screen. I'm very much looking forward to it.

Or better still, don't buy it at all (horrid stuff) Now I've nailed my Marmite colours to the mast!

Went to see it with my brother last night. It's coming to the end of it's run and down to two showings a day, but the screen was packed. I enjoyed it (it's John Wick, so whats not to like!), but felt it overly long and the fight scenes were getting a bit same-y. I did like The Warriors nod though

I'm sure @ZeroHour will see this, but he's away on his holibobs atm, so it will get sorted...in a bit!

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It certainly was a strange BETT this year, not just because of the Connect@BETT faff many, including exhibitors, had to go through, but because, IMO it lacked the usual BETT ‘atmosphere’. It did seem to be missing the sense of fun that usual BETT’s have, but this is understandable given it was the first ‘real’ show in three years (we shan’t count last years), and with new companies and staff there, as well as old hands having to re-learn/remember how to do large shows. Hopefully the next show should be a lot more, well, fun. Numbers, by all accounts, were down on a normal BETT, but once more this is understandable, with the rail strikes causing many to drop out and not helped by it being the last week of term, which means that many techies stayed away to ensure their networks were all shut down properly. Whilst we did have a nice amount of visitors to our stand, we did miss some regular faces coming for a chat. A big shout out also goes to Smoothwall for sponsoring our lunchtime pizza Freebies! With fewer members at the show, we didn’t get to find out about the very nice range of freebies that could be had this year (and a shoutout goes to @Net-Ctrl here for coming over on the Friday to drop off some very nice mugs and USB battery packs!) and @VeryPC for the socks and sweets, but as @BKGarry proved, they were out there if you looked for them! The location of the show also felt weird. With the show being at the eastern end of ExCel as well as the halls reversed (what used to be on the south side was now in the north and vice-versa) it cause everyone to stop and have to get their bearings every time you left the exhibition halls! I also thought that taking the BETT arena and into the dedicated theatre at ExCel took many out of the main show environment meaning exhibitors lose out on footfall from visitors who would usually filter through the exhibition on their way to and from the arena when it was held inside the main event. A quick note about Connect@BETT, I had spoken to so many exhibitors and got a decent overview of their opinions about it. Some I talked to loved it, but many saw it as a pain, taking staff off the stands and most meetings being not very productive at all. Not to mention that they want to show off their products, not talk about them in a different hall. Whilst I can see the point of it, and it worked for some, I think most (exhibitors and visitors) would be glad to see the back of it. As regards to London travel, I must admit that with the Lizzy line now open, it took a lot of pressure off the DLR each morning, and I got to ride on it briefly (very comfy and fast!), and on my way down and my return in holiday traffic (I had to drive down due to rail closures on the WCML) the smart motorways do indeed seem to keep the traffic flowing, even when very busy, but was so glad to get out of London and its ‘dodgy drivers’ Still, it was nice to get back into things, meeting you all and our sponsors and I can now get on with planning our conf for October. We’d usually hold it in May, but with a March BETT, we really don’t have time to organise ours in such a short space of time. I’m just putting some feelers out now for a venue, but it could well involve trains or weapons depending on what venue works best for facilities!

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If it's as tongue-in-cheek as it it looks then that could be quite good! ETA - I may come to regret those words.

Mine was too here in Preston, it was a lottery which sites I could access. Seems stable now though.

Thank you I'm busy catching up on a weeks worth of email, then off to Turtle Bay for tea and cocktails!

I'm going to post my experiences and views of the show tomorrow (drove back home on Saturday and still pooped, plus it's my birthday today) based on my chats with lots of vendors and my experience of doing BETT since 2007. One thing I will say though is that it did seem to be lacking 'atmosphere', a sense of fun if you will, that it usually does. Maybe this is becase it's the first 'real' BETT in three years (let's not count last years when everyone on the EduGeek stand who hadn't had covid, went down with it immediately post-show) and vendors are still getting back into the swing of things, but it still felt a little, well, 'off'.

Don't forget we have pizza on the stand about 1pm today, although the Domino's app has been telling me it's being prepared for about 15 mins now!

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