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I don't trust the story at all.

I dont see any reason *not* to trust it (but I didnt follow any of the links...)
I would have thought it not that suprising by EU standards although usually they're more bogged down with practical things like whether to ban open containers of olive oil on your restaurant/cafe tables.

... raising a glass only counts if there's a five (5) pound weight attached, and if you alternate hands 

let's see, two full ones of those German litre beer glasses would make roughly five pounds weight - one in each hand.
Sip alternately :p

[Challenge game finished!You lost the challenge with 14802 points against 21957]

Since it's the only Asian start point I've had so far, here it is for you to play with: The Challenge

edit/ removed link & added in spoiler /edit
Challenge game finished!
You lost the challenge with 14802 points against 21957

my best score yet - as I said above I dont move from the spot - well tbh, if there is a sign nearby I will move towards it (and search for it). I just dont have the time to do it at all unless I limit it that way.

Is this a good time for me to plug the new background Patch tool in Screenshot Captor?

definitely - I often wished I had something like that, expecially for this thread

Monday morning:

  I recognize that album cover.....

I recognise that monday morning . . .

your Point Motivator might be helpful too mouser:
http://www.donationcoder....PointMotivator/index.html

PS I'll give it a go too (do I really have to make a solemn oath though ) - would be interesting to compare rough lists of what we plan -
to me eathing healthy involves:

• eating veg with every meal
• also I eat too much bread (it's so good here though)
• and FWIW cooked food seem to agree with me better

cmpm - why is your toolbar background in W-7 the same as mine in Vista, but tomos' is different?  Tomos - did you change something in Windows that caused your toolbar to be off white / light gray?

I tried the Basic theme in 7 the other day - it looks like your screenshots - colour seems to be related to title and menubar which aren't changable.
I'm using a modified Aero glass theme - oddly enough though I think the toolbar colour is related to colours I set in what looks like the Classic theme settings (MS's implementation is very confusing) but dont have time to check (I'd have to chenge each colour and see results)

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but I really dont know - see what it says about colours only affecting Basic or "Ease of Access" themes

hmm link not working here (goes to empty shopping cart)
(I already have Start8 myself anyways, so if interested would just get the ModernMix for $5)

^lol - I'm not laughing at you cmpm - I'm laughing because I introduced the comparision with Windows 7 which seems to be causing all kinds of problems (the 'actual' problem is in Vista Basic theme).

cathie - I did have a look at the basic theme here btw - you know my OS by now ;-) and it is as you describe (I mean I never doubted you, I just thought I could help, but the basic theme is, well, yes, very basic.)

^gotcha, I did look for clues in the images, but just combined that with the wild and/or intuitive guess approach
road markings, signs naturally - road or otherwise, driving on the left/right, vehicles, vegetation, weather.

To rgdot's cschw's challenge, I was doing really well but managed to get almost minimum points on one**

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[edit] I just did a 360 lookaround at each site - I'm not going down any of those roads cause otherwise I'd possibly never see myself again... [/edit]

Or you can use any website, and a Google Docs form, like the one on my father's Blogger blog. Any data submitted from it goes to a spreadsheet on Google Docs and he gets an email when a new message is added.

Pick a template you like and modify it till it's just what you need. Once you are finished, add the code they give you to any web page.

looks/sounds good - will try, thanks app

This one wasn't too bad, got within 200 meters on all of them I think....definitely have too much free time.

so... have you like been everywhere

Thanks.  You have Windows 7 - not Vista

yes, I got that:

image (also in quote) is from Windows 7 - if you can find the equivalent setting in Vista it might do the trick

[without having to join the site]

I'm a complete noob in the world of blogs - or whatever I need here (read on!)

Here's what I need:

• I want to set up a quick website (focus is images - I just want to show a bunch of samples)
• I want people to be able to contact me directly (PM style) without having to join the site
  (I dunno here: I dont really want to publicly display an email address, but maybe there's another workaround here? Including an email address as an image could be a solution.)

Tumblr is actually really nice -
I can make a really simple scrollable page with a series of images:

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BUT - contact is a problem via Tumblr:
there is an 'ask' page, but the question get's posted to my page/blog (possibly only when I answer it, but still - it's privacy is uncertain).


It's nothing top-secret, I just want people to be able to contact me and that they be able to safely include *their* contact details.

Free is good - but monthly payment is not a problem.
Dont have time/money at the moment to get this done properly i.e. my own website - but also this might only be a short-term site.

oh, one can turn around as well! Well, then I am satisfied with my 9525 points.

2) link

well I went for the challenge Curt - and make up for my last attempt (I think there's a lot of luck involved with me, but it's fun looking for clues)

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I think it's to do with the windows theme (not sure if you mean Aero when you say 'basic theme')
See below - image (also in quote) is from Windows 7 - if you can find the equivalent setting in Vista it might do the trick.

Might be just a case of changing "window colour" to grey and making it light (vary intensity).
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my SC looks like this:

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Well, I tried the same as your second... you're doing very well.  Compared to me, that is.    I only scored 7k on that same one. (The second link is to share and compete)

well my next attempt was almost more impressive
I only got one on the correct continent - still ending up with a genorous 5k points...

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just how wrong can a person be

So can anybody send me the exe? Spanning days, several computers and a couple of ISPs, no dice. The site is slow to dead for me, download barely starts.

just sent you a PM with link

as said above I think the [Accept] button is normally the [OK] button - otherwise it's pretty much as normal for windows (here the dialogue for changing screen resolution):

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It ended here.

oh dear. I'm now 'here' too

they're very generous with scores but the first game was a disaster -
second was a lot better in spite of a couple of major duds - link (I'm getting competitive already )

^variety, the spice of life (luckily )

Thanks mouser!

a minor related problem here (no big deal, but might be helpful in diagnosing):
Seems to only happens after starting SC (normally just after rebooting in my case)
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• open SC
• sorting is by creation date
• the most recent shot is showing in window
• related thumbnail is bottom of the thumbnail panel, but the panel shows the oldest thumbnails & the sub-dirs (i.e. it's at the top - should be at the bottom)

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Note, the thumnail does have focus - so if I tab to the thumbs panel and click the up arrow to go to next file, the thumbnail view *will* jump down to that file.

Hey, it's not just mid-20th:

Seattle Times article: Dinner gets very local for squirrel-eating Seattleite
Best quote?  "It did not taste like chicken." 

best quote alright
but it got me wondering what it does taste like
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Squirrel isn't as gamy as venison, she says, and tastes like rabbit. (Adhering to the journalistic creed of "trust but verify," we sampled the squirrel; it had a nutty flavor and tender, slightly greasy texture.)

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I've never cooked rabbit myself, but have eaten pretty good tasting rabbit in local restaurants in Spain.
For that matter I've eaten pigeon breast as starter in a fairly fancy restaurant once. That tasted *very* good - and there's lots of them everywhere :-)
It's an interesting topic all round, (but not one for this thread I guess).


Does remind me of a story involving a friend on mine though. He was living in the countryside on a small unworked farm (just a few fields really), and was vegan at the time. Spent a lot of his free time outside, was planting a lot of trees at the time as well. Anyways, there was a hare living on the land. It (she) had a couple of babies/leverets. Over time, my friend got to know them so well to see, that he'd named them all. 'Paris' - the mother, was first named - before he realised that she was a she. Anyways, one day after driving home from work, he discovered 'Paris' dead on the road.
He stopped and checked - she was dead all right, but still warm. So he took her into the yard, skinned her, and then on to the kitchen and cooked her slowly in a pot, adding lots of veg and a few spuds for a good stew. Apparently the verdict was pretty gamey and very tough.
But he sure suprised a lot of people :-)
I would have liked to have been there to see the scenario - in fairness, probably not that different from any traditional small farmer that kills an animal that's been almost like a part of the family for a year or two. Somehow seemed almost cannibalistic though, what with him being vegan and all.


(with apologies to Ian if I didnt do the story justice - I believe there was a mock-epic poem written shortly after by a creative friend of his - naturally involving France, and Troy, and probably Paris Texas the film.)

made me smile

and sure they've got a point -
but are the alternatives that much better . . .

+1 ... to both posts lol