🙂 Smile (-: User is left handed. %-) User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight. :*) User is drunk. [:] User is a robot. 😎 User is wearing sunglasses. B:-) Sunglasses on head. ::-) User wears normal glasses. B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses. 8:-) User is a little girl. :-)-8 …

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A new aid to rapid, almost magical, learning has made its appearance. Indications are such that, if it catches on, all the electronic gadgets will be so much junk. The new device is known as Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge. The developers usually call it by its initials, BOOK(tm). Many advantages are claimed over the old-style …

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Bloody thing.. after working nicely for just over a week, leading me to think the problem was all down to blocked injectors… the starting *problem* is back with a vengeance. The long landrover saga or engine Demons are back with a vengeance… FIRKING THING! /me takes a deep calming breath….. So, 80% of the time …

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I’ve never had such a love hate relationship with a damn car!! Boris the Landrover LR3 is my daily driver and I really do genuinely enjoy driving it. But this vehicle’s reliability is down in the swamp. Why is the Landrover LR3 unreliable? I can’t tell you – and I’ve spent thousands of dollars trying …

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Two days after dropping a couple of grand on a new starter motor, new transmission shifter (and two weeks of rental cars) trying to *fix* the ‘refusing-to-start’ problem… The very naughty Boris had driven like a dream over the weekend and I was finally enjoying the Landrover experience again thinking it was solved… this morning …

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MovieMode = *ON; So, According to ScreenRant.com development of the next installment of I AM LEGEND is underway: There have been rumblings about an impending second installment in the I Am Legend (would-be) franchise being made, ever since the original 2007 film grossed over half a billion dollars worldwide in theaters. Warner Bros. has finally …

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Boris the Landrover decided to breakdown last night…. it was the good old recurring problem where the LR3 decides not to start… At all…. It’s like the engine immobilizer kicks in and it just wont start. Turn the key and it turns for a few seconds then stop turning regardless of position of the key… …

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Before I start raging about this car I need to take a deep breath. This Problem Landrover LR3 is a particularly naughty example of landrovers utter rubbishness. This bloody thing is making my head EXPLOOOODEEDEE with frustration. Just to reduce the chances of my head exploding in frustration, I am going to amuse myself by …

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So, as usual… today I was scratching my head with a problem that was kind of outside my realms of expertise. These realms are many, I hasten to add the ones outside are the many ones and the ones inside are rapidly diminishing with my brain cells exploding in a puff of logic and old …

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You DO NOT have an AS400 or an iSERIES! This has been an ongoing argument disagreement in our IBM i and RPG programmer communities for well over a decade: Should IBM have changed the name when the launched the replacement for the old AS/400 computer? Many people using the latest IBM i servers still enjoy …

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Me and my wing man (Bailey Version 2.0 – the Springer Spaniel) arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday night after a smooth flight courtesy of Delta Airlines. Shipping pets around domestic USA is remarkably easy and pain free: Make sure dog is all up to date with vaccinations and get a certificate from Vet saying …

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Note: The following are humorous (and sometimes serious) quotes gathered from the internet. Since it’s all a big rip-off, I am assuming no copyright whatsoever. I don’t even guarantee that they are accurate. Now that you’ve been warned, enjoy. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. — Thomas Watson, Chairman of …

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