Nick Deverill
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I was a boy scout in England, which is where scouting started, and it definitely was not part of the tradition here during the time I was in the scout movement (1956 to 1964).
And it's not now either. I've friends who are leaders.
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I like it, and it negates the all to common line in gay stories where the CPS works hard to put children in homes where they'll be harshly treated by bigots.
I was actually contemplating asking the true status of the CPS until this story appeared!
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Nice writing, and a very good read. Very much as though the storyteller was sitting next to one - perhaps on a bench just after sunset.
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Raised a smile here!
Tops my wearing highland dress (kilt, sporran, jacket etc) on the London Underground. My excuse was I went to a retirement party, wore the dress for that as the retiree was very Scottish and I could not be bothered to change. And it has to be said a little devil on my right shoulder suggesting I went home that way.
The dirk however was in my bag - even I'm not quite that silly.
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I don't live there now, but moving to Scotland was an eye-opener. Some seriously smelly dudes who avoided bath time.
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Plenty of water in the UK, and it's currently raining. Just bring your empty bottles, no charge!
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The simplest way to clean up a Word file for conversion to a web page is copy the text in Word, and paste into notepad. Then copy that and paste into the web program.
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My grandfather, after trying stilt walking for the first time at age 75 said he felt no different in himself to what he did at 18. Didn't stop my Aunt telling him off though!
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Some forums do have built in spell checkers, but since I found the easy to use British English Dictionary add on to Firefox, I just use that. It's not perfect, but even antidisestablishmentarianism is in it! (believed to be the longest word in English excluding technical terms etc).
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At the end of the cancer road, the patient is not usually still on chemotherapy as the attempt has been given up.
Various painkillers, usually opiates, cushion the end. Quite often the person is hanging onto life for a reason, and once that reason has passed the actual end can occur surprisingly quickly. I'm pretty sure I remember reading about someone who hung on for their wedding - and died within 48 hours.
Very sad process, no two cases are the same but I'm not criticising the timescale elements here, the poetic licence taken is not unreasonable in my book.
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One I had read before, but surprisingly little recollection of it. It is however a must read and fits into the time period very well.
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Just logged in and sent myself an email from a non-gmail account I have. Worked perfectly.
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And have enough change to install a Wurlitzer cinema organ.
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I'm not a dog person, but number 5 is the good one for me too.
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I think the spirit of that law was for frequent offenders (could be wrong) and perhaps they are being rigid about it for reasons other than the stated.
That I believe to be true. It's a sad fact of a lot of legislation that the people caught out are mostly the honest ones, and the bad people work around it.
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It is quite a problem to schools and I know in some areas, kids were being taken all over the place in term time. Can make a teacher's life very difficult.
From the article, you'd think this was a one off for the family, but was the quote of five years actually true?
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I didn't investigate further, but there is another file the page loads, and that file is seen as the virus. My anti-virus stopped the loading (Avast) but if I could be bothered to examine the page source, I'd expect to see a line in the page header calling another file. Much as in the same way a website calls a dotcss file.
Must say though, I was both surprised at Nifty and the author. Probably more likely the author's machine has a virus than any attempt by the author to propagate the virus.
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Straight bananas is a myth. While the EC has many loony bits, it's not helped by some of the press who don't let a inconsequential matter of the truth get in the way of a good story.
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One of the tests for a good law is; can you enforce it?
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The correct pussy cat icon is now there, but many pc's cache favicons, but the next time you clear the cache you should then be seeing the correct cat on the tab. I checked by opening a different browser.
But I power cycled the laptop and it is still coming up with V for the forum. Had this problem when I changed the favicon on a shop site I look after - and typically, I can't remember how I cured it! One does not mess with favicons very often.
Added - to fix Firefox, do this.
Click http://forums.awesomedude.com/favicon.ico
When pussy cat is displayed, close browser, and reopen.
There's probably other ways, but that one does work, I've just re-pussyed the laptop.
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Forum pages have this in the header (triangular brackets replaced with squiggly ones to avoid mucking up the forum).
{link rel="shortcut icon" href='http://forums.awesomedude.com/favicon.ico' /}
Which is definitely a V, as I managed to down load it. It's 16x16 pixels
And AD stories have this:
{link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.awesomedude.com/xxx_inactive/favicon.ico" /}
And this is the cat. And the cat is 32x32 pixels
So to see different favicons is correct.
If you see anything else, either your browser or the whole PC is caching the favicon. Certainly caching was a problem in the early days although I've not run up to it recently.
So in conclusion, the favicons have a different source and return different images.
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Logo is the favicon. Support for different sizes in browsers is mixed, with a moving favicon supported only by Firefox.
To be fully compatible, one is best keeping to 16x16 pixels. My first attempts at downloading the cat to see how big it is failed, although if I really wanted it, I'm sure I'd work out a way.
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I have a policy of giving organisations that insist on an email address, a unique address. That way, I can determine if the email has been ripped of from somebody else. So far, Adobe are as guilty as hell since over 50% of my spam is sent to adobe@my domain.
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But there are an estimated 50000 others convicted of the same 'offence'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315
(BBC report on posthumous pardon for Alan Turing.
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Kyle
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I must admit I read the article and thought I'd read it several times before. Bits have undoubtedly happened but as a whole - it's a work of fiction I think. As per the links given by others.
Nice story, and the issue of teen suicide does need emphasis but factual? Nah!