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- A Halloween prezzy for those admins with a malicious disposition
- Copy the bit between the dashed lines NOT including the lines into Notepad and save as "halloween.vbs". Get a suitable horror bitmap bmp file showing the picture that you want [b]at a suitable resolution[/b]. Get a wav file for a scream or whatever. Copy both into c:windows on your target's...
- Tags: neilb@..., bitmap, sWinDir, HKCUControl PanelDesktopWallpaper, WAV, wav file, Halloween
- Discussion threads 2007-10-26
- OK, so who's up for a beer?
- So, I'm over here in sunny Florida just across from St Peretsburg. It's a mild 89F hotter up where jd is getting toasted by global warming at the moment.If there's any local peers that fancy a cold beer - I'm buying. Send me a peer-mail...Nice place, nice beach, nice exchange...
- Tags: neilb@..., Neil, St. Pete, Mum
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- FRIDAY YUK - Official! Queen Gadget says so!!
- me, too....reminds me of the instructions with a Yank iron that stated "do not use on clothes whilst wearing....."It shouldn't surprise me, though - whilst picking up a script from the chemists the other week, I saw a box of suppositories with the instructions in huge bold font on the...
- Tags: neilb@..., patient
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Oh. Is it that time of year again?
- NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCETo the citizens of the United States of America,In the light of your failure to elect an even slightly competent President of the USA and thus demonstrate your ability to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. Her Sovereign...
- Tags: neilb@..., American States, football, accent
- Discussion threads 2007-07-03
- Summer is here!
- I don't know what's happening in the rest of the world but something unusual is going on over here in England. After the warmest January since records began, we are now having the warmest and driest April.Not that I'm complaining, mind, as I already have a suntan!Neil It's beenreally...
- Tags: I-don't-know-what, neilb@..., Skyline
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- Spring is here. A month early!
- Spring has come to London and it's been here over a week with tempreatures in the mid 70s which, for early April, is ridiculous. It's not all good, though and so I thought that I'd share this cautionary tale with you.I was walking to the station to go home yesterday...
- Tags: neilb@..., Neil
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Well, we didn't have to nuke them, did we?
- We didn't have to blow up any one or any installation. We didn't have to invade or even send in special forces. We didn't have to threaten and, unless something really bad happens, we're not going to part of your excuse for "Son of Shock and Awe".OK, so they're not...
- Tags: neilb@..., Neil, Yeah
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Some USA 2006 snaps
- These are a few piccies from last year's Western USA trip. It's just a few from the thousand that I took. I'll post some more if anyone wants. Also, if anyone likes one enough to actually want a copy, I have them in higher res than the ones on Photobucket.For...
- Tags: neilb@..., Neil
- Discussion threads 2007-03-17
- Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus
- Today is St David's Day. He has been the patron saint of Wales since the 12th Century.The most famous of the "miracles" attributed Dewi Sant took place during the synod at Llanddewi Brefi sometime in the 6th Century. It would seem that, in order to get the crowd's attention "he...
- Tags: M&G, Neil, neilb@...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- Sense of humour - are there those that lack it?
- This is a serious question aimed at adults. Following the thread started by Gadget that informed us of the new "Spam Killer" button, I posted a very obviously spoof "Ethiopian with money" thread. I did think that using my own login name might - just - give the game away.Of...
- Tags: neilb@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-17
- I would just like to point out
- that I am refusing to obey jdclyde's orders to "Post here, I COMMAND IT!" despite the awful consequences that might ensue from my act of rebellion against one of TR's main "enforcers".I accept that he has guns - lots of them - and that my refusal t
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, neilb@..., Happy New Year
- Discussion threads 2006-12-29
- Things that make you go "AAAAAAGH!" - Rant warning!
- I'm sitting here watching my telly - Gordon Ramsay in Kitchen Nightmares - and I've been assaulted!On my screen has just appeared an advertisement for Coca Cola. In it a chubby-cheeked Santa Claus (I'm sure those cheeks are false) hands a bottle of Coke to a young girl, then to...
- Tags: neilb@..., Coke, who writes these adverts?, off-topic, advert, Neil, Santa Claus
- Discussion threads 2006-12-19
- My usual Christmas present to you all
- A Christmas present for you all from me. Some of you may know that I used to be a biochemist so this is the biochemist's view of a hangover and the closest we can get to a cure.Some might suggest that you imbibe responsibly. Me? Go for it!The m
- Tags: off-topic, neilb@..., hangover, alcohol, tequila, brandy, gin, whisky, moonshine, poteen, painstripper, boot polish, vitamin, dehydration
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Why I will not be hanging my stocking up THIS year
- I posted this last year but, since then, I’ve been checking up more carefully on the facts. As I was once a scientist I have a certain scepticism that has finally convinced me that Santa Claus DOES NOT EXIST. I’m sorry if this comes as a shock to some
- Tags: santa claus, ho ho splat, neilb@..., Santa Claus DOES, off-topic, sleigh
- Discussion threads 2006-12-02
- The inmates are in charge of the asylum
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6142416.stmFor those of you who cannot get the link, it would seem that six prisoners are likely to be awarded an out-of-court payment because they were forced to go what they considered to be "cold turkey" when impris
- Tags: you couldn't make it up, off-topic, neilb@..., addiction, government
- Discussion threads 2006-11-13
- Something to make you feel all warm inside
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6132140.stmSometimes you just wonder what's going on in people's minds...:DLooks like...he could have just burst :-(Well, at least...Well, at least there wasn't a Gerbil involved. :^0Ex
- Tags: warm feeling, schadenfreude, off-topic, fireworks, neilb@..., ass, Bicester, Neil, firework
- Discussion threads 2006-11-09
- Coming to America
- I'm currently in the Holiday Inn at Kayenta Az for Monument Valley. They wanted $12 per day for internet in Vegas! It's free here so first chance to post. This is an expansion of an earlier post.Mum's arthritic hip flared up so she could hardly walk two days before we...
- Tags: casino, different rocks, Horseshoe, more rocks, neilb@..., off-topic, red rocks, rocks, steaks, Vega, VEGAS, wheelchair
- Discussion threads 2006-10-18
- Monday Watercooler
- Monday WatercoolerNot the best of weekends. Went down to Brighton with my mate and his family yesterday to take my Goddaughter and friends out in the boat for an 11th birthday treat but the weather was bad so we toured the harbour.We went out to the harbour entrance to watch...
- Tags: Neil
- Discussion threads 2006-08-21
- oooooh! You ....you....rat!
- oooooh! You ....you....rat!Ok, my go....A Geordie is drinking in a London bar when he gets a call on his mobile phone. He hangs up, grinning from ear to ear, he orders a round of drinks for everyone in the bar, because, he announces his wife has just produced a...
- Tags: Geordie, humour, humor, doesn't have to be geordie/mackem jokes!, neilb@..., off-topic, Mackem
- Discussion threads 2006-08-04
- Don't post in TechMail's Yuk, post in MINE
- if you want to, that is.:DHappy Friday to my reader...happy Friday to you, toowhy are you so grumpy today?Sostarting or posting in the Friday Yuk is NOT a requirement for TR members? Why didn't I get the memo?If I think of something funny I'll post it in yours. After all,...
- Tags: Mambo
- Discussion threads 2006-08-04
