OK, you gentlemen of the press, have you really ever “hailed” someone for doing something you consider worthy? Or ever told your mates that you had a good “romp” last night? No, of course you haven’t – and nor has anyone else. So stop it. Just stop it.
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Very sad to hear this morning of the death and probable suicide of Keith Emerson. I never got beyond Pictures At An Exhibition with ELP, but the Nice were the most exciting and entertaining group I ever saw – and I saw them many times. The live performances of Rondo and America were the anthems
Well, this flaming “tennis elbow” is not going away in a hurry. The first prescription of some NSAID eased the pain for a couple of days, then flatlined. The second prescription of a strong ibuprofen gel did bugger all. And the third prescription of cocodamol was, I think, clutching at straws on the part of
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Had a fox amble through our estate during the cold snap the other day – beautiful to behold. Only my second sighting of one since moving out to Grenoside, the other being on Elliot Lane, just before the junction with the A61.
Having just posted about Microsoft, and the words “pain in the arse” having strangely sprung to mind, I was thinking of a suitable word for that condition. “Analalgesia” sounded useful, but it seems the word already exists for something completely different… And, anyway, it would be a mix of Latin and Greek, and I’ve learnt
Certainly not praise for Windows 10, which has proved to be a significant step backwards from Windows 7 on my PC: slower boot time, odd incompatibilities, and, worst of all, mysterious and annoying random freezes for about 1 minute). But praise for the Surface 3 which I received as an unexpected Christmas pressie. I’ve had
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So I went through the formal switching process to change banks, all DDs in place two days before the switchover date, npower sent e-mail acknowledging the new account details – then five minutes later another e-mail saying “We couldn’t collect your Direct Debit amount of …“. The DD was already in place, and they shouldn’t
Hmm… that wasn’t particularly difficult, was it? Just delete it from the template and add it to the footer menu… No need to be frightened by jdoc:include…
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Just a reminder to myself… Been bugged by how to remove the © notice that Joomla sticks at the bottom of every page. Google turned up loads of stuff that has no relevance to what I see with Joomla 3.4.5. Eventually discovered that it’s defined in /templates/protostar in the footer section. So took a copy
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