Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Often, they seem they are amply filled.

Interesting comments from "Digital Look".

Perhaps, the Europhobes should not cheer at the possible demise of the Euro.

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"Four leading economists have called on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee to cut interest rates from their already historic low in an attempt to kickstart growth. The members of The Times’ Shadow MPC — Michael Saunders, UK economist at Citigroup; Sushil Wadhwani, of Wadhwani Asset Management; Sir Steve Robson, the former second permanent secretary to the Treasury; and Charles Goodhart, of the London School of Economics — urged the Bank to cut rates by a quarter point to 0.25 per cent. “The economic outlook has worsened since the July meeting and inflation prospects have improved further. More stimulus is needed to prevent inflation falling below target over time,” Mr Saunders said before the MPC’s two-day meeting, which begins today. Wadhwani and Mr Saunders also voted for more money to be pumped into the flagging economy through quantitative easing.

Britain’s heavily indebted economy would suffer a deeper slump than Germany’s in the immediate aftermath of a break-up of the euro, a leading consultancy has predicted. Fathom Financial Consulting estimates that the UK’s economic output would drop by 5.2% in 2013 in the case of an implosion of the single currency and a full-blown banking collapse. That compares with a 5% decline in gross domestic product in Germany and a 4.3% drop in the United States. The UK would suffer disproportionately in part because of its large financial sector and overvalued housing market. A flood of cash into sterling would also drive up the pound and crush exports, Danny Gabay, a director at Fathom, said. Speaking at the consultancy’s Monetary Policy Forum, he said that the Bank of England would have to print £1tn in its quantitative easing programme to stop the pound from skyrocketing, The Times reports."

Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?

It is 30 years since the Commodore 64 went on sale to the public.

The machine was hugely successful for its time, helping to encourage personal computing, popularise video games and pioneer homemade computer-created music.

Nothing compared with the Sinclair QL a few years later. (1984) Super QDOS and unreliabity and an amazing memory micro tape of stretchable 128K.

Where you had to open the box and push the chips in.

For somebody with dyslexia, it was amazing liberation, one could write and corrrect and correct and correct before printing a letter out.

Remember the old Sinclair rubber keyboard ? never owned one , bought the Amstrad with the built in cassette , another about the same time was the BBC B

More Church Bulletins:

The eight-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7pm. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

Gold MedalGold Medal

Is that for me for remembering the rubber keyboard

aldwickk :-)

How ironic, our first gold medal is for women reversing! I'll get me coat!

Well done Bradley Wiggins!!

I see you found a new toy to play with, lol

Some unfair referees in Olympic.
Beach volleyball, Russia went out as referee decided a ball was in after initially saying that it was out. The mark on the floor showed it was completely in.

Last night boxing, Iranian guy who was ahead and was playing great disqualified by the referee. BBC commentator was astonished by the decision and thought the other opponent should be disqualified as he was turning around (180 degree) and putting himself (his head) in danger.

Is anyone looking at these decisions? It was promised, at the start of the game, that the referees will be fair.

Good to see a few remember the good ol' Commodore 64. What a great machine at the
time... I used to do an occasional business page for Your Commodore magazine and
the odd games review. Good times... :)

Greystone - we both know that this is the real deal!

LOL skinny. Used to be a pain for me as a left-hander...

Kofi Annan says he’s quitting Syria role

That'll shake 'em -):

Luxury. Many happy hours using one of those in the 60s.

Don't forget paper tape and the Elliot paper tape reader.

Jockland's so popular these days http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-19093528

I think before anybody is let into Free Wales, or Independent Scotland they should have to pass through stringent Immigration vetting.

I suppose some would still escape over the border.