I didn't think to video it but one day when I was working from home I got a call from 'Microsoft' wanting to 'fix' my PC. oh boy, I was literally rubbing my hands together with glee as I fired up my test VM and let them in. The caller put me through to a 'technical' guy. They setup a remote session but then I pretended that they lost 5 years of email they put the phone down! Can't wait for them to call back. he he.

What a milestone in space history.

When I read the summary I did remember someone having an idea of doing this on some kind of sea platform - was that you? I remember the sign-up page had a fair-few names on it already. _Chris

At first I thought I was reading an echo from the 1990s as I thought Ceefax was gone long ago. Ceefax as an information service has been copied into the digital format and works pretty much the same way i.e. you can enter 'page numbers' to go to the information needed directly and it's a lot better as it has different fonts and pictures. The old Ceefax had a similar look to Prestel and although fantastic resources in their day, have not had their day.

wow all this posting over a missing hyphen. If only we could turn our energetic posting into solving cold-fusion then the world would be a happier place. Come to think of it we can skip the cold-fusion and just use the hot air on this forum. Don't mark me Troll - I'm a nice person!

I saw the shuttle on it's 747 carrier way back in the 80's near London Heathrow airport. It was something I'll not forget and a wonderful sight to the science-mad little boy.

A wizard wheeze would be to flag pictures of landscapes and kittens - let's give them something nice to view for a change instead of the facebook equivalent of rottencom?

exactly. if you want to get fit then the Wii Fit is a means to an end therefore you would put effort in to the games. If you wanted to play around then just sit down and wave the controller around. It's not a question of the system let's you cheat but more of if the individual actually wants to get fit/lose weight. my gf and I have the wii plus fitboard and dance and we really get in to it. My heart-rate-monitor tells me I have increased heart-rate and am burning calories. Now get up off that couch and shake it baby.

Adobe were losing their grip on the online web-based gaming world along comes this news. I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out. Perhaps a time when games become software-as-a-service and run in the 'cloud'.

yay! more data for the SETI mesh to chew on.

to my dream of being a space handyman. Free optic washing with every tankful. The life of a space cowboy for me. The littlest hohouse on Venus and all that malarky.

Yeah I did but all he wanted to talk about was penises and overweight bald guys so I stopped it.

I splashed out on a Sony PRS505 about 18 months ago and am very pleased with it. Yeah the menus can be sluggish but once you're into a book then it hardly matters. The most important factors were screen readability and eyestrain. I can read the Sony for hours and it's just the same as a physical book. Plus I've stuffed two complete Open University courses on an sdcard and so I can have them on-tap. Very cool. Yeah I know others are better/worse/different but the 505 suits my needs and that's all I'm worried about :-)

You get a lunch break?!