Public Address | Cafe | Island Life: What's the frequency, Helen?

slarty

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:19:47 +1300

Look what I found: the St. Custards website.

A poor sub for those missing copies of The Compleet... (mine disappeared with the ex in 1996)

http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/

daleaway

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:26:58 +1300

I know who stole my Compleet Molesworth in 1963, and I would have a fatwa out on her now had she not married a real dud and been forced to live in a city which I shall not name out of delicacy, so I reckon fatwa has been executed by…

Rob Stowell

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:46:57 +1300

Fotherington-Thomas lives at the bottom of my mate's garden. poor fule. he never made it in advertising.

Stephen Judd

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:37:43 +1300

My mum had a couple of Molesworth books, and oddly enough my intermediate school library had several more.

It's a long way from St Custards to Fairfield Intermediate, Hamilton but it somehow worked anyway.

slarty

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:39:30 +1300

"as any fule kno"

Hey! I didn't think there was anyone else in NZ who knew about Down wiv skool :)

InternationalObserver

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:00:01 +1300

can I go one better? :

I bought a Philips 400GB HDD from Harvey Norman on Dec 22. Didn't get a chance to install it until Jan 12. I then realised it had already been installed previously and they had left some recorded items circa August 07. Those recorded bits…

James Green

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:07:52 +1300

A somewhat unrelated Albany story was our subsequent trip to a cheesery just on the other side of the motorway. You get to it through a string of cul-de-sacs of forgettable architecture, and randomly, there is then a small farm, with a few goats, and some great cheese, under siege…

James Green

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:04:07 +1300

Westfield Albany is not as terrible as you make out. Living in a delightfully mall-free city (mwa-ha-ha), I'm occasionally dragged to such places when we're travelling. Granted, there is little to be said for the interior, but I believe it's core source of triumph is the terrace along the front/back…

Mark Graham

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:07:49 +1300

Aha – try this – not exactly tinfoil but it will stop the aliens...http://www.stopabductions.com

Tony Kennedy

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:13:36 +1300

talking of tinfoil hats ... or more precisely "singing of" and as it is still the holiday season (at least according to Nat Rad) for your consideration I present ... this

Russell Brown

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:03:34 +1300

She mostly bears it with good grace, but get around a friend who’s not a fan of computers and empty half a bottle of wine into them both, well, then I find out how unwelcome my clever gadgets are.

I thought for a moment you meant that the pair of…

dc_red

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:58:43 +1300

"LittleCreep"
"WeHaveMovedOn"
No dice.
"Sustainability"
"Cancerous"
...
"RichPrick"
"ForFucksSakeTrevor"

Surprised you didn't try "Peter" (in the time-honoured tradition of password selection). :-)

David Slack

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:42:54 +1300

This solves the airport problem:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044

Indeed it does. Richard, who is formally qualified to say so , informs me that it's not rocket science. My problem was that I was trying to do the Factory Default reset, described at the foot of the page. That one just would not…

Rob Hosking

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:30:10 +1300

For the password: try putting in written form the Helen Clark laugh – "the honk" I was told by a Labour staffer it is known as.

Not as menacing as Muldoon's 'heh heh heh...' drier and more forced.

richard

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:11:35 +1300

This solves the airport problem:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044

The MagnumMac problem can presumably be adjusted by threatening to ridicule them on your widely read blog :-)

Paul Brislen

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:21:33 +1300

I see your problem... it's either the tinfoil you're using for your hat OR (and I can't rule this out just yet) that I've stolen all your bandwidth spamming my mahjong club.

It's a close run thing.

Public Address

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:21:31 +1300

Discussion from blog post.