Other one AI might struggle with:

Lisping girl of legend (4) - (ans: 'Myth')

How about some Cockney Rhyming slang?:

Beehive in North London? (4, 6) - (ans: 'High Barnet')

A clue definition of '...V' is acceptable, if it follows on from a previous related question or answer. Even then it may seem related, but isn't. This will throw one off the scent, but the answer will often be part of an overarching theme. A theme often allows weaker definition cluing. Several other clues might include tangential references to science, but there will one clue that is often refered to by clue number only, elsewhere in the puzzle - e.g. 'Amphibian is working by force' (6) - hinting at the overall theme 'Newton'. I would also be on the look out for oblique references to the biblical character of 'Isaac'.

Themes are particularly popular with Araucaria in the Guardian. He loves to bend the conventional rules and it is expected that he will. Which brings up another reason why this AI would struggle with UK cryptics - a priori knowledge of the setter's style, or even the house style.

I own a pair of B&O A8 earbuds. They sound OK - I honestly can't tell the difference between these and anything else I've tried. My brain isn't wired to care much about audio.

When I was shopping around back in 2002, it was between these and a pair of Sony noise cancelling earbuds (just because they seemed pretty cool). I'm glad I chose these.

Coolness is not the reason that I bought them, however. I bought them because they wrap over the ear and are incredibly comfortable to wear for long periods.

I just reached my hand up to check if I was wearing them. I am.

Have you cleared the battery calibration data recently?

I like symbian devices, particularly Nokias. They make some of the nicest handsets around. I love my 5800, and S60 v5. I liked my previous S60s phones and my Psion EPOC devices before those.

That said, I hate the development environment, it is absolutely and consistently dreadful. It's a wonder anyone develops for this platform. The Wiki is full of out-of-date examples, and contradictory advice. The compilers are terrible - two completely different free compilers used for the emulator and phone (with different bugs), or a third commercial one which can actually generate decent ARM code - all WIN32 only, of course.

The Symbian C++ API is just awful. OpenC made it bearable, python makes it usable. Nokia's focus is, however (like an ADHD sufferer) shifting once again - this time to Qt. They are currently shipping a 5-600MB Qt SDK for Linux, which can *only* produce code for an emulator!

It's as tall as Big Ben - a really big bell in St. Stephen's Tower, Westminster.

Weird unit of measurement, but there we go.

Interestingly, Solaris had (past tense, as it's dead) a command to remove zombie processes.

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I never had the chance to use it, but I thought it had a cool name.

I believe the bear costume is a reference to this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7112929.stm

Why don't yanks take part in F1?

I thought you loved racing cars about.

A-Serial is a device not just a cable.

It contains a USB->RS-232 bridge circuit, i.e. FTDI FT232 plus a MAX232 line driver.

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Nicer.

It's like Gordon Brown at No. 10.

Doesn't matter, until the situation changes. Who would invest? I say that as a shareholder.