Clothing: Little Feet “Texas Twister” UK tour T-shirt (now rather baggy and full of holes rather like me :p )

Actor: Robert Mitchum 😎 (for a good day), John Cleese 😮 (in Fawlty mode, to depict an average day), Brando 😡 (in Apocalypse mode, for a bad day).

Sandwich: Smoked ham and Shropshire Blue with piccalilly on wholemeal.

Animal: An enthusiastic dog. 😀

Quiz: Shooting Stars. 😀

Cooking skills: Roast leg of Lamb (boned, coated in chilli and honey and slow cooked for 18hrs with 50 cloves of garlic )

Night out: Fantasy, The Stones playing my local with Julia Sawalha on my arm :diablo: . Real life ? That would be telling 😉

It’s nothing to do with XP, (me – defending Microsoft, I need to lie down!), AMD or motherboards.

Hard drive manufacturers state the size of their drives based on 80 Gb = 80,000,000,000 bytes. They don’t. 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes. 80 Gb is 85,899,345,920 bytes. That’s where your nearly 6 Gb has gone, it was never there in the first place.

Well I bow to your superior knowledge, I was just recalling something I had read on the subject a few years ago.
Mind you it’s no wonder computers are a mystery, I was under the impression that a kilo of something was 1000 of that something.
I think I am right in saying that 1 km = 1000 m, 1 kw = 1000 w, 1kg = 1000g so why does 1kb = 1024b ?
Not being inflammatory…..just asking 😎

Maybe you can name a few other sailors who were knighted but didn’t sail around the world?
Flood

Sir Walter Raleigh (mind you he felt the Monarchs blade twice, once across the shoulder and finally across his kneck )
Sir Chay Blyth rowed the Atlantic in June 1966 with John Ridgeway in English Rose III.
Aside from their loved ones, no one remembers David Johnstone & John Hoare who vanished attempting the same voyage a month before. They and ‘Puffin’ were lost without trace.

NO ! Big up Ellen…well done 😀

I love that photo, takes you back to your childhood dreams “and when we opened the barn door at the abandoned farm we found……….” 😮

😀 Hooray and well done 😀

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/sailing/4229079.stm

41 miles left……….. GO GIRL :diablo:

http://www.teamellen.com/ellen-article-100.html

Happy birthday indeed young fella’ me lad. Have a great day.

It comes after, in a decending order based on the level of award. I might suggest you consult a reference, such as “The Standard Catalogue of British Orders, Decorations and Medals” by E.C. Joslin.

Spot on old chap !