anthony davidson is current hot fave

No idea who that is...

In other news.....

THE AUSSIE WOMENS CRICKET TEAM JUST WON THE ASHES, OH YEAH!!!!

Just thought you may like to know :twisted::twisted::twisted:;)

Wonder what Andy Gray and Richard Keys think of that

*Melon you might not get that reference, so here's more about it

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/p...hard-keys-sack

Ear ach please kindly feck off it's getting beyond a joke now :( !!

I yeah I heard a little about that, but I wouldn't have know the names

Life Is a Lemon And I Want My Money Back is definitely the theme song for my life. Yes, my life truly sucks. And yes, I would love to have my money back from Saturday night.

There are oftentimes just way too many words on the screen....

not long now then will all be sorted !

if you thought that was cryptic, whats this??

a cryptic metaphor?

Should get something to eat, feel a bit sick !!

Wish the toilet would correct it's self am sick of hearing the flushing noise now :shock: !!

And I hope the descrepancy that happened yesterday can be explained and verified :? !!

Some people should respect other peoples privacy.

I can't believe it's almost a year since we first heard Los Angeloser :shock:

So true

dont you just love it when kids say the funniest things

with michael barrymore?

:-P

no at home and definately at the wrong time very embarrassing for their mum,but i thought it was funny

Another incorrect phone bill. :angry:

Imma Gonna Leave
 

I give it a day at most! :nuts:

LMAO! You really think he can stay away from here for that long? I have my doubts; however we shall see!

He didn't actually specify an Earth day. Who knows how quickly Wario's planet spins on its axis?

Or if it even has an axis? Perhaps it is like a giant yoyo teathered to an imaginary point in space and one year is equal to walking the dog? :shock:

whats a gospel bus? and why did i get a leaflet from them last night?

I'm just shocked !!

shouldn't play with electricity and water

i really really liked that telecaster

steve vai is amazing... loved this solo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojENxv6AL2E

ich bin feckin freezin

Glad we dodged a bullet and the cyclone heading straight for us dissapated due to wind sheer.

There are tornadoes in Australia?

Hurting =,( !!!!

Welcome to the world Wario ;) We have about 40 reported a year in the UK, a higher number per square mile than the US, but fortunately ours are generally much less severe and more are probably reported because of our high population density (plus in the US I guess many go seen but unreported if they're not carrying a car!) They can happen anywhere except the polar circles

Caryl

Its not unheard of but very rare, no what we have going on here at the moment are cyclones.... not tornadoes

Cyclone same as Hurricane.

Yep, just depends where it is ...

Hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones are different names for the same type of storm. A tropical cycloneis called a hurricane in the North Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, or the Northeast Pacific Ocean on the eastern side of the dateline. A typhoon occurs in the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline. In other parts of the world, these storms are called severe tropical cyclones. In Britain, it's just a bit wet and windy, until the press get hold of the story, then it's armageddon ;-)

This site is so edukashunal :-)

From what I remember from geography lessons .. ;) Cyclones are large wind systems rotating around an eye of low pressure, but not all cyclones produce the spinning column of air that is a tornado which is also of far smaller diameter, and generally formed over land (at sea they're usually referred to as waterspouts). Hurricanes are formed over water when a wet mass of air over the sea evaporates, may or may not hit landfall, and can cause tsunamis and floods. Tornados are usually created by thundertorms or by hurricanes when they hit land.

Doubtless Wiki will have many other versions .. :lol: but Wiki is only as good as the last poster.

Whatever the definition .. they are not restricted to the USA ;)

Caryl

Well that was a shit weekend away, am also down one new laptop and Iphone

THE SNOW CAN FSCKING STOP ANY TIME NOW! GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

that was a spectacular sunrise today


and rumour has it, a big freeze is a coming in a couple of weeks :D

:twisted: Not good :sad:

I know what I did was the right thing so why does this hurt so much =,( !!!!!!!!!

i'm guessin youre talkin relationships

and by saying you know it was the right thing, is rational thought..

love is emotional
love is great
love is fun
love is europhic
love is magical
love is dangerous
love is vulnerable
love is dark

love hurts
love is hard to do

but its never ever rational

Er no not exactly Jonty...

if i guessed wrong... just ignore the above :whistle:

i much prefer david ford's songs and performances to rick brantleys songs and performances

tis dead in here today

It's looking bad for far north Queensland at the moment. Cyclone is upgraded to a category 5 with winds of up to 300km/h expected to hit at around 10pm tonight. It will hit the area from Port Douglas to Townsville. Not sure how familiar you are with a map of Queensland but it is a huge area. They say up to 30 000 homes will be affected. Like they haven't been through enough with the recent floods, now this. My heart goes out to all of them.

Carole

is it true anything posted on facebook becomes the property of "facebook"

and how the hell is facebook valued? how does it generate revenue?

is there advertising on it?

yes.

There's plenty of advertising on it, yes! Four at least a page on the right hand size, about 25 on a linked page. They charge for "impressions" per thousand (ads being shown to users) or "clicks" (when a user visits the advertised site). It's huge business!!

Caryl

good, it has a genuine revenue earner, though i'm still concerned as to the data aspect, is it true anything put on facebook cannot be erased... just hidden from view?

(and it is still valued suspiciously highly for just advertising)

You can delete stuff or pages, and you can delete your account altogether, although people seem to have problems with the latter, mainly because Facebook deactivate the account in question for two weeks, and permanently delete it ONLY if you do not use Facebook IN ANY WAY during that period. So checking to see if it's gone will count as use, as will any action on other Facebook pages, or logging into other services using Facebook Connect .. which imo is a bit sneaky!

As to its being erased or simply hidden from view .. on the internet I'm not sure if anything is permanently and completely erased, or still floating in the ether if you know how to find it. Someone more versed in the internet may know.

As to it's "value" .. its real value will only be tested if it's sold or floated; but I guess the recent value put on it is based on its potential (as are most valuations of companies) plus it's an implied value really, based on its phenomenal growth and the recent investments of some $500m in it.

Its potential for advertisers is huge because so many people put so much personal information on it, including their interests, likes, activities etc, Facebook can analyse that and target advertising, which makes it more of a winner for advertisers than almost any other site selling ads; a massive selling point. That alone must vastly increase its potential value. (And is why the ads appearing on mine are so random! :lol:)

Caryl

Yeah I've heard that anything put onto the internet is there somewhere forever. Even if deleted or erased someone with computer savvy can get it back.

Carole

Just because you've deleted a picture form your profile on facebook (for example) doesn't mean that the file is actually removed from their servers. All you've done is remove the link to the picture from the profile. Chances are that each individual picture is replicated over a nuber of storage devices on the facebook servers to proivde for failure, huigher speed access etc etc. And data will be backed up to tape, disc or offline discs to enable a restoration of service.

So facebook will have multiple copies of that one file that you've uploaded to it's servers. How many people have downloaded the picture that you've uploaded too? There could be copies anywhere ... I've seen photos I've taken (some of which were only ever shared briefly on this or other sites) appear on other peoples profiles for example.

The only true way to delete anything is to have it physically erased from the hard disc that it's stored on, and then to have that portion of the disc overwritten with random data a number of times (7 times is generally accepted as enough to ensure that the data is not accessible to anyone. The backup tapes, discs or offline storage arrays would need cleansing too, which is much more complex.

The same holds true with your hard drive on your PC at home or your memory stick or your memory card in your smart phone. Just because you've "deleted it" and then emptied your wastebasket, doesn't mean it's really gone. Give me 5 minutes and I could have it back again :twisted:

That's what I thought .. although neither speaking nor understanding the language I couldn't have expressed the thought in geek :lol:

Just highlights the reality of the net and Facebook, which so many seem completely oblivious to .. and the dangers!

And as well as people downloading anything you put on it, there are also these endless daft "quizzes", where people who don't know you from Adam, and wouldn't recognise you if you came up to them with a large club (which some deserve :lol:) "answer" questions about you from a position of utter ignorance, and this rubbish too sits forever on Facebook around its many pages. It won't surprise me in the least if on the anniversary of my daughter's death I get yet another notification of a quiz someone has completed on me which answers the question "Would Caryl Burton like to have children?" with "Yes". There's a lot about Facebook I find sits on a scale between daftly tacky to downright and thoughtlessly stupid.

Caryl

It seems I've aquired a lovely bios error that randomly shuts down my PC. :wall: The question is: do I replace the motherboard or the whole lot as there's a couple of things now concerning me about this setup? :confused: It would be nice to have a computer that lives longer than a couple of years. :roll:

You mean a "blue screen of death"? Drop me a PM 'cos it might be software not hardware ...

No, not a blue screen. The whole thing either freezes and becomes totally unresponsive or it shuts down and I get the black screen with BIOS error at the top and lots of beeping! :shock:

It's fecked then.

Can't remember ever seeing a BIOS message once Windoze has started.

You could try re-seating the memory.

That PC is pretty much crashed. sorry

I've already took it apart and had a fiddle :bleh: so it's time to start pricing up parts I suppose :boohoo:. If I disappear then you know it's all gone a bollock! :lol:

oh hope you backed up your you-know-whats

Yes they're all safely stored away in my thingummy along with my wotsits.

You don't want to do that, they'll get covered in a cheesy orange dust.

Happy Groundhog Day!

If you make the same post at the same time tomorrow, then we'll know you're in trouble :))

Firstly, WHOOOO I figured out how to multi quote!

Down to business, yeah they reckon it is big enough to cover most of the US and a majority of Asia, it is the worst in Aus in 100 years!


Yes it is, always be careful what you put there, what goes on the internet stays there forever!

As I said in my last post, anything that goes on the internet stays there forever, even if you "delete" it. There are always ways of getting it.

ive had that on the corner art exhibit... it only became an art exhibit after the above ;)

What a day, that was hard but needed to be done.. Why does crying take alot or most of your energy ?!

Sometimes what we feel as exhaustion is more the emotional catharis we achieve. Also crying is a non-violent means of discharging distress (in itself a physically tiring process),and (sometimes unknowingly) the distress of previous associated experiences. Psychologically we can as a result make clearer sense of issues, present and past, and that too can leave us tired although hopefully sometimes wiser; but it's a learning process which consumes effort.

Also puzzling is why men who would appear to be adults think that behaving like children is somehow intellectually smart and hugely amusing. But that's a whole other can of worms :lol:

Caryl

Well thats my inducton course over with for today.... start work Saturday!!!

congrats and good luck

the best thing about stereotypes is they are soo often wrong

6 weeks to go then the inlaws are OUT :cheer: :yay: :cheers:

I definately do not have the temprement required to drive in the city.......

I am sooo dead meat... the pen just leaked on the fairly new micro suede couch...... oops.

not even a freezer could save the fishfingers which went out of date in may 2009 from being disgusting :shake:

You want to see Channel 4's Dispatches doco called Fish Unwrapped that'll really turn your stomach :barf:

Watched it last night, went straight to freezer to check ingredients lol. But that warehouse with 10yr old fish in it took the prize!!!!

That and the Bangladeshi prawn farms with the sewage running into them.

Damn, I've just eaten fish... :sick:

discovery of the day:

running while listening to born to run is awesome! :cool:

Great, now my laptop was dropped, and doesn't work, it seems like its not reading the hard drive, is it possible for it to get knocked out of place?

Yep.

I did that last weekend, 3 week old laptop, I learnt that doing this will shatter the screen..............

wouldn't recommend it

I'm getting close to deliberately doing that to my new work laptop. "It works fine" they said on Friday as they handed it to me "apart from the wireless giving me the remote email, connection to the fileservers and everything else I would actually want to use it for.

When I turned on my new computer yesterday morning, I kept getting an error message that the fan wasn't working and it shut itself down.:roll:

So last night I got rid of the splitter I was using in one of the USB ports, and now the computer is working better than ever :))

Today was some what interesting !!

That trip to Worcester was kind of pointless :roll: !!

:twisted: Top tip.

Drinking while listening to it is even better :mrgreen:

Word of advice NEVER drink orange juice after eating apple sauce or oreos

:sick::barf:

One of the reasons I will only buy Australian prawns, I used to buy whatever was cheapest until I heard about what they do in Vietnam and other countries like it. Disgusting.

Carole

was there ever a poll on which official video is your fave?

Not that I can remember. MSO would win by a landslide anyway. Anyone who voted for Bad Attitude Live would be shouted down because 'Meat displays more passion with the MSO,' a couple of people would insist that 3 Bats Live is the greatest thing ever because it reminds them of the shows they attended, one person would vote for Wembley '82 just to be an arse and then never reveal themselves and at least one person would claim all of Meat's releases to be equally as amazing and that they find it impossible to choose between them! :twisted:

:lol:

Id vote for MSO beacuse its the complete show. BA LIVE cant win imo because it feel like a TV edit.

That's because it is a TV edit! Why don't you make a poll? :cool: