Nah! Thats what the tablet is for, phones screen is too small.

Indeed! Also most weekends.

Ah! Well done sir for that fine piece of Discworld

Long live Terry Pratchett.

Perhaps those who love his writings should wear lilac on the day he dares to pass away just as the Watch did in "Night Watch."

Santa?
We call him the "The fat man in the red suit" and my eldest son when he was about 5 would run and hide at the merest glimpse of one in the distance :D

In my house WE (the parents) give our kids pressies NOT some stranger in a red suit!
Why should someone else get the praise when its our hard worked for money that paid for it all?

My two cents anyway - Now I'm broke LOL

Ah well done ! You have made my morning
True as it might be it certainly put a smile on my face :)

Ah no they are not, sometimes I think they are a little too cocky though :P

Perhaps a little back on topic, I used to work in sales for a computer shop, selling software as well as hardware.
I brought my boys up on your run of the mill "children's" PC games and really they are a hit and miss affair.

One notable hit that I'll always recall was a game staring Elmo. I believe that game was the success it was only due to the fact my eldest liked Elmo and had a few stuffed Elmo toys.
Perhaps one key then is to provide software on their computers that they can relate to in real life, like my boy did with Elmo.
Just a thought.

Don't ask me to relate that to proxy servers though :D

So very very true. Nothing like a little "hot blooded" motivation eh? LOL

If they do manage to bypass it I think perhaps I might be more proud of that achievement than I would be upset. :D

Attempts to get to "filtered" sites are logged but I don't check them with any frequency, I guess I rely on the complaints of being unable to get to sites as my guide to its effectiveness.
After all I'm not a complete bastard :P

True ! But as long as they continue to complain about its presence I am led to believe they have not bypassed it :D

Hahahahah I have two boys who have to endure theirs dads liking of using a laptop loaded with Linux acting as the proxy, gateway, firewall.
I use Dans Guardian as a content filter and they HATE it LOL
I love the filter though and have been using it for many years. It has a wonderful where I can adjust the level of filtering based on the average age of those going through the filter. Naturally you can add certain IPs to not go though it.
Thankfully they have found no way to bypass it YET :D

I play Modern Warfare only for its multi player function. In fact I have most of the PC versions of COD and have never completed the single player side on any of them.
The games I do play single play on are mostly C&C / Diablo type games.

I buy FPS games based completely on the online multi player side and isometric type games for the single player side.
Many people do play multi player in C&C and Diablo type games and of course co-op in games like Serious Sam and the like. So to reduce the time and effort spent on multi player would be a bad thing in my opinion.

However developers should look carefully at their games to see if multi player is a valuable addition to the game or not.
Sim City is a game that works well without multi player for me but I have friends who say they would love a multi player function for it.

...and there goes another previously good keyboard... Damn it!
Can someone please invent a good keyboard that can withstand a laugh induce spill? Just don't call it iKey!

Why does the world still have this bizarre belief that taxes are for what they say. Call me cynical, but as soon as the gov't gets its hands on a stack of loot, its going to spend it as it pleases. The rationale for raising taxes is usually an excuse.

Ever been shocked by 110? No big deal. 220? You need protection.

...or tequila

I have had a very easy time also. One on a fairly new PC (Intel Dual Core, nVidia graphics card and 2GB of RAM) and then a Toshiba Tecra A7 laptop (Intel Dual core, ATI graphics card, and 2GB of RAM).

My only gripe was the failure that still occurs in the Toshiba laptop with the Bluetooth card not functioning. I was able to get it to work with 9.04 but the same trick is not working now.
Everything else is functioning well.