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OT - sometimes technology can be a good thing

For the last three days I've been on a bit of a tour of the UK (Barnsley - Sheffield - Harrogate - Troon - Avonmouth - Barnsley). Technology (well, computers) have pissed me off at every available opportunity - from panels that don't boot to emails that won't send I've had it all.

I left Avonmouth at 1pm yesterday, and at 8pm ish came to a standstill in yet another traffic jam on the M1 at J31. At 11.00 we were still parked there, and the little one in the back was getting more than slightly tetchy (3 hours past bedtime). Anyone know what was going on BTW?

Anyhow, Mandy pulls out my tablet, puts in the 3G card and fires up Boobah on the BBC website. For 30 minutes Charlotte giggled and smacked hell out of the screen playing with a Flash game. It's the most useful thing the internet has ever done for me....

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Tim Hobbs
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After 1700 Miles towing across France our best investment was a portable DVD player for the kids... Never, but never has the rear of the car been so quiet. Thing is I could then hear all the squeaks and rattles. ;-)

Lee D

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Lee_D

That boobah site could keep anybody entertained for a fair while!.

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if anyone is bored) I remember first seeing it months ago, and the main site just kicked straight into the wierd flash stuff without any kind of main page. I'd never seen the TV program either and had no idea what was going on!

Reply to
Tom Woods

Almost analagous to the 3 year old spending more time playing with the fancy wrapping paper instead of the birthday present that was inside it.

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wayne

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Richard Brookman

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wayne

Way (way) back, we used to get fish and chips in NEWSPAPER! No sterilised and sanitised barrier layer. I used to reckon that the ink made the chips taste better, but that's all gone now.

As in - E-bah-gum?

Rich

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Richard Brookman

It can't have been that far back!. I remember getting fish and chips in newspaper.. Or am i just getting old? :(

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Tom Woods

Were they in black and white?

Reply to
wayne

Yes.

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Richard Brookman

I think it was generally half printed newspaper. I presume it was either test prints or where one colour or part hadnt come out (imagine, only the pictures or only the text or just some articles)

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Tom Woods

COLOUR? Luxury!

You must have been in the post-Eddie Shah period. I was talking about before The Times realised that having news on the front page was a good idea, and the Guardian was the *Manchester* Guardian. Ah, them were't days....

Rich "Has Mafeking been relieved yet?"

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Richard Brookman

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