Is that Tom-aaaaah-toes or tom-eh?-toes...??

(V)--We demand that you cannot keep us out.
"(Priest)--Who are you?
(M)--I am Majikthise [pronounced Magic Thighs].
(V)--And I demand that I am Vroomfondel.
(M)--You don't need to demand that.
(V)--All right. I am Vroomfondel and that is not a demand, that is a solid fact. What we demand is solid facts.
(M)--No, we don't. That is precisely what we don't demand.
(V)--We don't demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts. I demand that I may, or may not, be Vroomfondel.
(Priest)--Who are you?
(M)--We are philosophers.
(V)--Though we may not be.
(M)--Yes, we are!"

Douglas Adams, what a guy!

You should have had Mr Burton, my maths O level teacher. He was brilliant. He was totally passionate about his subject and he was also a fantastic teacher. he encouraged us to think about maths rather than to just blindly follow formulae. I still vividly remember the lesson where he taught us differential calculus from first principles.

He encouraged us to study outside of lesson time and his door was always open during lunch, or after school. almost every one in his class passed their maths O level with at least a B, over half had A's

It's no exageration to say I owe my career as a developer to him and his enthusiastic teaching.

almost all genology programs will support the GEDCOM file format, it's the defacto file layout/data structure for family history. So it should be possible to extract data from all your family's various software packages into the same GEDCOM format and merge them into a package of your choice.

some people have this thing callled a Family...

  5 people in our house, 2 playing Wow, 2 watching iPlayer and someone else torrenting from eztv - that sweet 50Mbps Virginmedia cable connection we have starts getting stressed. (yes, that does happen a lot!)

We're moving more towards online entertainment all the time (netflix etc) so it's not unreasonable that 100mbps will become the expected connection speed before too much longer.

You sir may need a new keyboard as your current one is randomly replacing the letter "t" with the letter "d".and is missing out letters sometimes.

"hard haT", "building siTe", save liveS", "where IT did not work out"

I'm not a proferssional mathematician but I think I do have a high level grasp of the principles of the BT paradox - I though it relied on being able to select an infinite number of points from the object. The earth has a finite number of atoms (or sub-atomic particles, or quarks... or.... )

easy - activate the pin number lock for your phone. It's a feature every phone has had for years.

work, I can FB at work without fear of my password being logged by the Overlords.

Years ago when I was a kid our neighbour was a sparky working on a site building new residentials. He had a huge fight with his foreman over something that wasn;t his fault, he got so pissed that he cross-wired the meters for each pair of houses on the site he was working on that day so house A would be paying for house B's electrons and vice-versa.(easy to do in our brick built "semi-detatched" houses in the UK where each pair of houses is one physical building)

unless they've harnessed somehow harnessed the power of TQM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation) then they would have known in advance we'd be looking. I think. Qunatum stuff maes my head hurt.

8 fingers + 2 thumbs + 10 toes = 20 digits

Fixed.

No, not Tuesdays. If we're gonna ban any day, then it must be Mondays. I don't like Mondays.