Better?

Ok, ok!! I'll make the text bigger!!

Bugger - just what I was after too; did I miss it?

You should be able to go to View/Text Size (or similar) and choose, "Larger", if the mouse trick doesn't work.

Maybe we should re-arrange for a bit later in the year - when snow won't be a problem.

...yep, or ctrl and scroll the middle mouse button.

Hmmm...just tried it with IE7 (in a virtual machine) and it all seems to work fine. Bizarre.

Rousseau conceived Alex BEFORE she got to the island, she was pregnant before she got there - it's only woman who get pregnant on the island that die, which is why Sun will be ok, and why Aaron was born ok and Claire was fine.

Is that IE7?

How do you mean it won't let you in? Is there an error?

Arrrggggg - no coffee in the house!! ...but breakfast sounds nice.

Not sure, I think it just assigns a random colour every time you enter.

So what do you all think of it so far? Did anyone have any 'funny' crashes, bugs etc...?

By the way, there's no registration required or anything like that - just type a nickname in when it asks you.

Bugger, I thought I'd fixed that.

Some of you may know that I've been working on a new site - not Bank Charges related, for some time - 10 mins here, 5 mins there - it's taken me bloody ages to get it up and running, and it's nowhere near finished. ....but it has a chatroom that I think I have finished getting right. You are welcome to help me test it if you like...;-) CIDB.NET - Consumer Information Database It's the weekend after all ;-)

Oh, and Brave New World - cloning etc... well, we're just starting to see the beginning of that I think. Remember Dolly? That was considered SF not so long ago. I think the thing about SF is that the author doesn't let himself be constrained by the norms...and that gives people who actually make this stuff happen open their minds too. Apparently (and I have no citation for this apart from a Arthur C Clarke quote), most astronauts and scientists read SF.

Ooooh - that second to last quote is sooooo untrue! I have a time machine in my shed - was HG Wells wrong!? Nah, seriously though, Tesla wrote about a global floating aerial ring around the earth for global radio communications, yet AC was credited with 'inventing' the geostat satellite. SF is riddled with ideas that have come true - and to be fair, many that haven't come true....yet. AD 2000 by A.M. Fuller predicted the fax machine in 1890. AC wrote a story, I forget it's name now, but it was about a machine that blocks out sound - these are actually in existence now, and some airlines use them (I think they are made by Bose). The thing about fiction is that it's ALL in the author's imagination surely? If it wasn't it would be a manual (sadly, the current government seem to have confused this too, and seem to be using GO's 1984 as a manual on how to run a country, rather than the fictional warning that it was intended to portray).

TBH, I much prefer Clark over Asimov. Much nicer stories and with more technology in them - plus it's explained how things work in AC's stories. Asimov, IMO, was more about the social impact (I Robot, Bicentenial Man to name just a couple). I think SF is too broad a genre for the two to be compared fairly. ....and what is wrong with James Herbert I ask? Classic airport writer and again, IMO far better and *real* (if you know what I mean) than Stephen King (although King did write my favourite SF (or paranormal) book - Firestarter - nearly bloody cried at the end of that book). No, it's a sad day that AC has died, and I'm rather glad that the scandal claims proved to be nothing more than the Daily Mail sensationalising (sp) once again.

12! Jesus! 84 quid for easter eggs - b**er that! Buy one bottle of scotch and 12 easter egg cups - then you'll have a quiet afternoon!! Joke! Joke! Don't send social services round! There's no way I'd waste a WHOLE egg cup on a child!

Cheapskate!! Nah - only joking. How many kids are coming? (If you say 3, I will refer you to my earlier comment! ;-) ) My eldest's birthday is around this time too, last year (when she was 5), I bought a handfull of cream eggs, and a bag of the parrot eggs, and just hid them in the garden - total cost about 5-6 quid, and they were there for hours; laughing, searching etc... They all got an egg each, and they all loved it. The personalised egg idea is nice, but not at 7 quid a pop. Oh, I also bought a bag of 250 twisty balloons off of ebay with a pump for 3 quid! Made balloon dogs (or something that sometimes actually resembled a dog!) all afternoon too. You'll need the pump, trust me! I was purple in the face after trying to blow just one of them up! Might be a bit late to get them off of ebay for this weekend mind. PS. If you go for the balloon idea, don't try to get too elaborate - it only end up in embarrassement - for you!! (I talk from experience ;-) )

Well, seeing as GB has never learned to drive and has always been driven around by someone else, and has never had to fill a car with petrol or fight the DVLA just to put tax on the thing, I don't suppose he cares about the 'fairness' of it - just so long as he can carry on milking us for all we are worth.

I think it may be this: BBC NEWS | Business | Q&A: Mobile mis-selling Like trolls, it seems that the mobile phone companies don't know how to engage in polite converstation either!

I would say that that means 'unlikely'.

Bucks maybe - it's a US IP address.