Word to the wise, don't let her hear you calling her your first wife!

Back in the dim and distant past when I last used windows ("XP" I think it was called?) I seem to recall a Double Click entailed clicking one button twice. Don't tell me they subsequently changed that to one click from each button!

Yep, they agreed to ditching almost all of their major policies in return for the referendum on voting. That was the one major item they couldn't, and wouldn't, budge on because they presumably felt that everything else was window dressing in comparison. Had the population not been such a bunch of Daily Mail readers and the referendum come down against FPTP then the Lib Dems could have hoped to get more seats in future elections and change our parliament from a two party system into a real three party system with a far better spread of representation in parliament. That would, IMHO, have been worth letting go on the other items they cared about. As I said, I'm not a Lib Dem supporter, but it would seem to me to have been a worthwhile gamble. Sadly, they didn't count on the vast reserves of apathy and ignorance this country can call on when the Red Tops wave the flag!

... and then whoops, they didn't win, so all bets are off! I'm not a Lib Dem supporter, but really, their election promises were for if they won the election and however you cut it, they didn't win!

I'm more annoyed about both Lib Dem and Con MPs who said they'd repeal the Digital Economy Act if they got into power and they haven't done so. That's a far more heinous crime because there was really nothing to stop them just cutting it dead in the water on day one after the Nu-Liebour unelected mandarin, and multi-expelled from government for sleaze, Lord Mandlemort rail-roaded it through at the last minute.

It will be interesting to see what the parties are willing to promise next time around, but of course we haven't actually held them to their word this time, so I guess we're just back to business as usual!

... and I guess we'd be in line for an eight day silence to mark our respect!

If we actually return to the moon, might a space elevator be more practical there? Could we do that now?
What about Mars ... how close are we to using a SE there?

The Police thought it was a problem. Apparently there were two gangs operating in the area at the time. One was a bunch of chancers and the others were a nasty bunch of bastards who, in all likelyhood, would indeed kill your family. My friend and his family were whisked away to a safe house. Alarms were put in his house which didn't just ring to the local Police station, but rang directly to any Police cars out on patrol with instruction that if the alarm went off they should proceed with all haste to my friend's house.

He returned a few days later. His father in law turned up unexpected and was greeted by a van load of armed response officers - somewhat spooked him by all accounts!

He now never answers his phone. You leave a message and he calls you back.

It was a VERY nasty experience and he will NOT be having any devices in his cars that could give even the remotest chance of tracking them.

An old school friend was contacted by blackmailers a few years back and they asked for £10000. In return, they said they wouldn't kill his family. He contacted the Police and they eventually caught the people.

There is NO WAY IN HELL he would have a tracker in his car because if anyone was able to break into the system it would make it easier for similar people to track, find, and do god knows what else, to his family. They could _know_ that his car was away from home and his wife's car was at home. They could _know_ that all vehicles were away and therefore the house was empty. And let's not even start to tell me the system is secure because we all know there is no such system!
There are just so many ways the information could be miss-used and abused, when a far simpler way to 'tax by the mile' is to put tax on the fuel.

Tax on fuel: You drive a lot ... you pay more. You drive an inefficient vehicle, or drive inefficiently, you pay more. Simple and cheap to setup, and cheap to run.

I'd settle for 10Mbps and, oddly, it's what I pay for from Virgin Media. I do hope all the extra traffic isn't going to even further degrade my bandwidth! That said, getting 10Mbps all across London sounds great!

Next, we want it to be able to pass a connection from POP to POP as we wander around without feeling like it's dropping and re-connecting (just like a mobile phone does) then we lucky Virgin Media people can use skype or somesuch throughout London ... Sur-weet!

LOL: I was with Telewest from the start ... BlueYonder ... now Virgin. To be fair, mostly it's OK but I've had some howlers when seeking support! My favourite was ringing up to complain about a slow service (I had 6+ months of this too ... turned out there was a fault and eventually they found and fixed it) and I was told that I should turn off my cable modem and let it cool down for an hour or so, and more, that I should turn it off every few days to let it cool down because the problem was caused by it OVERHEATING! Let me tell you, I was not happy. When I hung up I rang through again, but this time to the "I'm thinking of leaving" people and told them to come take this fire-risk out of my house ... I was assured it wasn't a fire risk and it wouldn't over heat and everything was fine ... I passed on the name of the nob-jocky support wipe who tried to pull that fast one I can tell you!

Also, all the support crap of ... turn off the cable modem. Now unplug it ... UNPLUG IT! Holy crap ... what the hell difference will that make? ... and STARTING the conversation with "is there anything else I can help you with today" ... GGGRRRRRRRRR! Let's fix the problem I just rang about first shall we! ... and messages like "you could also check on our website ..." NOT IF MY CONNECTION IS DOWN I CAN'T! .... and going through the whole damn turn off, unplug, stand in a bucket of milk, plug back in, reboot, sing hallelujah rigmarole .. THEN they check to see if there's other problems in the area ... oh yes, I see there's a fault in your area ... WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU CHECK THAT FIRST YOU DOLT! ...

The 6 months sh1te service I mentioned meant I had to call every month to tell them how sh1te it was to get a rebate. I asked why, since they would KNOW when the fault was fixed and until that time my service would be sh1te, they couldn't just not damn well charge me until they fixed it. Apparently they wanted to annoy me even further by having me go through the damn turn if off, unplug it, yada yada yada support dance every month.

... and yet, with persistence, you can sometimes get through to someone who knows their arse from their elbow and they can be very helpful.