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| 1, My computer is giving up this message whenever I plug in my external hardrive - "Administrator has restricted this computer to access USB/1394 mass storage device'
I'm running on XP, any help?
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2. Is it possible to apply to a better university at clearing even if you have an accepted place somewhere else?
All sorted, Thanks!
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| So, I will shortly be jetting (well, trundling) to Paris. I'm rather excited about this not least because I haven't left the country this century. I will be good. However, I really don't know what to go and see and I have allergies which would be good to have translated into French in advance. So:
If you know French could I possibly get you to translate my dietary requirements into French, pretty please? I'll owe you a beer or similar.
Secondly, where should I go/where should I eat. There seems plenty of places to go but I have very little information about where's good for food. I am allergic to wheat so don't send me to a bakery or somesuch, otherwise I should be able to get safe food.
:) - Mood:anticipatory
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| Not terribly productive - we really are hampered by the lack of a study, meaning that the boxes that should be unpacked into there and still all over the house. Still, carpet fitter on Monday then we can Get On, Yesterday, we: - Nipped (or popped) out in the morning - to the (not very good) home brew shop in East Hull, to stock up on winemaking kits. I prefer to make it from scratch, but don't have time, so I'll set some of these going today. Also into Asda for turkey mince for the prodigal Iggy, and the next door Matalan for a beak, where we picked up a terracotta salt pig, a pair of boots for me, and a washing up bowl, for the princely sum of £25,
- On to Wickes, to get the paint for the living room,so that I can start cleaning and filling the walls bit by bit, and then Pete can put up the shelves. We grabbed lunch from the van outside the store - a bacon, egg and mushroom breadcake (as they call them here) for me, and a sausage and bacon one for Pete; a fiver for the pair.
- We finally found the missing shelf for the kitchen bookcase which is currently pressed into service as an emergency spice rack, so I finished (almost) emptying the kitchen boxes and reorganising the cupboards - only three more boxes to go, and I know exactly what's in them, and where the contents will live
- Went over to Newlands Avenue with a box for the charity shop, which was delivered to the Red Cross, as they were the first one we encountered, and it was raining. Also dived into Tony's Textiles for a lined curtain for the bathroom - it's really cold in there, and it has a huge, bare window. Picked up a cheap curtain rail, a pair of curtains and a tieback for £18. One curtain was plenty, so I'll whizz back there this morning and get another rail and tieback, and the second one will do well in the study. Tonys is a great shop - we got the bedroom curtains in there from the reduced box - 20 quid to do the two big windows in the bedroom, to replace the vile and filthy things (which don't even open) that Gavin put up. Must get the rails fitted - the curtains are all hooked ready.
- Put up the bathroom rail and curtain; looks a lot nicer, and seems to be warmer in there
- Freegled some more boxes
- Did the quote for a client, and Pete also spent some time trying to work out why something which has been working perfectly for a year for another client has suddenly stopped working.
- Had a kebab for supper - mixed kebab and portion of chips to share, £10.25 delivered to the door. And very nice it was too. I was looking forward to settling down to Gavin and Stacey, but the Tivo had failed to record it. This turns out to be because I failed to ask it too, so that's a fail on my part.
- Fell asleep at 9 p.m. again - my body clock seems to be currently set 5.30 a.m. to 9, which is not ideal.
And now it's almost 8, and I must get going. Later, peeps. | |
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| I'm on a massive weight loss kick at the moment and am targetting what I eat through the day at work. I'm mainly buying meal deals from various places for my lunches at the moment but feel that I could a) save a lot of money and b) save myself from piling on more pounds by making my own lunches. Problem is that i'm just not feeling inspired. I need whatever I make to be incredibly low in saturated fat and tasty so I actually want to eat it.
Do you guys have any favourite things to make for lunch? Or any websites particularly good for providing low fat recipes that are quick and easy to throw together? I'll obviously be preparing my lunch the night before work, so don't really want to be faffing around in the kitchen too long if I can help it....
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| I'm getting a whole weekend off :) Am heading to London for the weekend on the 5th December for a friends 40th birthday celebrations...am looking forward to it and am also a little nervous at the same time. - Mood:bouncy
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| If Fahrenheit 451 was about social workers instead of firemen, it would revolve around the perverse and twisted notion of social workers being concerned for the welfare of vulnerable, subjected, or ill people and spending their workhours trying to help those to a better quality of life.
Is there a word, maybe a german word, for a role, where the common and agreed understanding is that the holder 'does X', but in actuality due to the way the contract is set out, or the management, etc etc, all of the holders (as a group) do the opposite of 'doing X'.
In Some News; My awesome GP has proven herself not infinitely awesome, and has wasted a whole afternoon of my time delaying several important phone calls by 3 days, and several important health matters that were already a week late, a further 2 weeks. this post was brought to you by the Swansea 2nd Area Adult Mental Health Team and their utter fucking incompetance
at holding a SECOND emergency assessment of me and thinking I'd go away happier and with more wellbeing if they helped even less than any time before and continually dropped iceburg sized hints that it was a friday afternoon so they coulsn't be fucked to do a thing, until I suggested that maybe things could be done on monday, and even they seemed to think that cup of tea and "time" would magically make me not loathe existance.
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| I have a Canon 350d that I've had for nearly 3 years and it just doesn't seem to be as good as it used to be, (it's actually more likely that I've just got worse at taking pictures). Anyway can anyone recommend me a place, nationwide or local to the West Yorks area I can get it 'serviced'. Somewhere that won't rip me off would be good as I'm also wanting to renew my passport and that's another £80 argh!
Ta muchly! | |
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| I still have the sinus infection, period pain and achy joints. But now I am also having a gallbladder attack featuring so much pain that if I didn't know what it was, I'd have gone straight to the hospital. (I did actually collapse in a heap on the floor when I was trying to go to see my counsellor, stupid me for even trying). As it is, I don't seem to have a fever anymore, so it's not a gallbladder infection, so there's no actual need for me to see a doctor. Probably it's just whining about hormonal changes (apparently gallbladders are sensitive to oestrogen) and the fact I couldn't take my ursodeoxycholic acid for a few days. I just need to keep lying here in bed and taking lots and lots of lovely drugs. But talk about one's body completely falling apart all at once! Also I had an absolutely HORRIBLE nightmare this morning after Richard went to work and had to phone him to make sure he wasn't dead, even though I did know it was "only a dream" that ( Probably triggery for some )So yeah, if anyone wants me, I'll be in a cave, under the covers of my bed, going "eurgh" :/ | |
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| Is there any major events this weekend in swansea at all, a mate is trying to book a hotel but is finding it difficult as many places are fully booked
so, are the national tiddlywink championships being held there this weekend or what? | |
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| Penis fencing is a mating behaviour engaged in by certain species of flatworm, such as Pseudobiceros hancockanus. Species which engage in the practice are hermaphroditic, possessing both eggs and sperm-producing testes.[65]
Child-bearing, while necessary for the continuation of a species, requires considerable resources from the mother. Thus, from a biological point of view, it is preferable to be the father rather than the mother.
The species "fence" using two-headed dagger-like penises which are pointed, and white in color. The "winner" is the organism that inseminates the other. The sperm is absorbed through pores in the skin, causing fertilization in the "loser" | |
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| Hello jut wondered if anyne here had been envolved in the EXTinked exhibition in salford? For those of you who haven't heard about it here's the website! http://www.uhc.org.uk/portfolio.php?tag=14&project=54. Anyway they have allocated one hundred people to have a tattoo of the 100 most endangered species in the UK and I just wondered if any of you were ambassadors?? xx | |
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| that no can possibly hate me more that i hate myself.
So if anyone would like to add anymore words of hatered or anger towards me than that would be great. At least then i'll know who hates me and why.
Thankyou. - Mood:numb
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| Going to detail progress here for myself - feel free to skip :) Yesterday we: - spent 3 hours hunting for DECT phone base, firewall and Pete's phone charger - this entailed opening every bloody box. We eventually found all three in the very last box, inside another box
- got the bed made up, so no more sleeping on the mattress on the floor. I also washed the bed linen and hung it on the line, after a desperate but successful hunt for the clothes pegs - that's a "feels like home" thing, but we need a new line and clothes prop
- assembled the clothes rails, found the hangers (why do we have so many?) and hung up all the clothes I could find, although I know there are a fair few packed in the top of the tower of book boxes
- sorted out all the wicker baskets in the bedroom, redistributed their contents to where they should be - bedroom is nearly there now, Bit more tidying, and new curtains and rails to hang
- Had a Polish chap round to quote for fitting the loft ladder and hatch - he's startlingly cheap at 200 quid, and I'm not sure whether to trust him, but his feedback on mybuilder.com is good ...
- discussed how to lay out the living room, discovering in the process that our not very nice television stand will have to go; simplest thing will be to put a custom triangular shelf in one of the alcoves, so Pete will hie himself down to Sculcoates Lane and visit the wonderful woodmonger, who planed a piece of wood exactly to size for the catflap, and charged us precisely £1.50, including the wood
- knocked out the manky shelving in the study alcove, part-assembled the spare set of shed shelves, and determined that they will fit in there - not ideal, but quick and easy, and so will do for now. The first set of shed shelves went in the cupboard under the stairs, which I have organised to within an inch of its life
- found the blind we bought for the old study in Bristol, and discovered that - amazingly - it will just fit in the study here
- found the missing shelf for the pine bookcase in the kitchen shelf, but sadly not its fixings - so we'll pick some up today on our trip to pick up the paint for the living/dining room, which will have to be decorated in instalments; paint a bit, shelve it, move on. The kitchen bookcase is holding up the finishing of the kitchen, so that's a priority
- got the Linux server up and plugged into the firewall (now we've found it),although we have a lot of network plumbing to do. Did some research on a job that a customer needs a quote for today - just what we need right now
- had fish and chips; £6 quid for two allegedly small portions, which we couldn't finish, they were so huge. We were going to have them for lunch, but I was late getting up there, and they were shut, so I bought a couple of filled rolls - one tuna/sweetcorn, one ham/cheese ... £3.10p. Cost of living is cheap up here!
- had someone round to collect a stack of cardboard boxen via Hull Freegle, and got someone coming for more tonight. Also cleared all the ones from the back yard ready to go to the tip this weekend - they're stacked behind the wheelie bin.
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| this having a bad cold and falling asleep in the early evening then waking up past midnight is really not ideal | |
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|  masks like this- where can I get them from in the UK? | |
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| Poll #1490835 Phones
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 133 Are you on Pay as you go or Contract? If you're PAYG how much do you top up a month Which network are you with? Why are you with this network? If you could have any phone, (for free) which one would you choose? Male or Female? | |
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| So I was wanting to make these this Christmas because I used to do when I was a kid, but as it's been a while since I was a kid, I can't remember how. I remember it being pretty straightforward, but I wanted to be sure before I made a mess.
I found several recipes online and there are some that do and some that don't use egg whites.
I don't remember using egg whites! Of course, I also don't remember how to make them anyway so...
Anyway. Do any of you guys make them? Or remember how? - Mood:nostalgic
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| 1) I have a cold. I was due to be going over to Leamington Spa for a training day on how to make videos today, but given that I was feeling grismal and not wishing to inflict my bugs on anyone else, I've stayed at home. Nothing that a few Lemsip and paper tissues won't keep in check, so no worries. 2) Biting into a plum, I discovered that I'd lost a chip from one of my lower right premolars :( An apple I could understand, but a plum? It's not as though I bit down on the stone... so it's off to the dentist for me tomorrow morning to get the problem fixed. 3) My god-daughter-to-be is due to be born sometime in February. She seems to be doing very well, according to the latest ultrasound. 4) Having heard the Agnus Dei from John Taverner's[1] Gloria Tibi Trinitas Mass a week or so ago, I liked it enough to want Harmony Assistant to sing the complete Mass for me. Unfortunately the CPDL, my favourite place for getting free scores from which to work, had scores of only two of the movements available, so I decided to buy the score on paper and to work from that instead. Allegro Music (not to be confused with the identically-named Allegro Music, who sell keyboards) turned out to be the cheapest stockists that I could locate. I ordered the score from them on the 13 th, and it arrived this morning, nicely packed, all present and correct. They're well worth a visit if you're wanting any scores; they specialise in organ music, but they have pretty good general coverage. 5) All things considered, life is pretty good right now. I hope you're all doing well. [1] That's the Tudor period John Taverner, not to be confused with the very similarly named contemporary Sir John Tavener. I know that Sir JT claims to be a direct descendant of the other JT, but having two homophonous composers is irksome. I propose, in the spirit of Clemens non Papa, that the Tudor JT should henceforth be referred to as "Taverner non Eques", which should serve as a disambiguator since knighthoods can't be be conferred postmortem, can they? | |
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| Stop reading Libertarian blogs about the CRU hack.
There is a limit to the amount of WRONG my brain can handle. | |
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| Wondering why I said to Richard, with all wild optimism, "If I'm better this weekend we should tidy the house" when LEGO Rock Band is out tomorrow. We'll be wanting to spend the whole weekend in front of the Xbox. Hmm. | |
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| We stopped in Trinidad and woke up to bright sun and a stairstep volcano behind the motel. Driving towards Denver with the mountain peaks playing peekabo behind the hills and deer looking minute on the flat that starts the plains. Just seen a morro: looking for all the world as if someone glued it in place.
road signs for Colo City: is that where all the data centres are? | |
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| idiot kat has reaIlsed the post she made last night ( http://darkwaterfairy.livejournal.com/297513.html), being a friends only post, blocked anonymous commenting. >_< so feel free to add any anonymous answers here. Also, any plurals or multiples stuff much appreciated! | |
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| I'm currently feeling very sorry for myself. I've been in bed for several days too ill to do anything except reading trashy novels. Ugh. The following has all been wrong: - Back and legs hurting too much to get up.
- Possible sinus infection - certainly lots of impacted snot and pain all round my sinuses. Dizziness and headache.
- Food poisoning or stomach bug, not sure which. Something with lots of unpleasant TMI, anyway. And a fever.
- Medication withdrawal effects - due to inability to keep meds in my stomach. Mmm, lovely migraine and shooting pins and needles all over my body.
- Period pain, to add insult to injury. A few days early. Couldn't my reproductive system have waited for my digestive system to get better?
With the sinus headache and migraine on top I haven't been in any state to look at a screen at all, and the odd text message that I had to send was wobbly and full of typoes. I've just been lying in bed feeling sad and lonely, but too out of it to actually contact anyone. I am grateful for the fact that you can now get vanilla soy yogurt in this country, because all I have been able to keep inside me for the past couple of days has been that, ginger biscuits and peppermints. Last night I branched out and had some utterly plain pasta with a tiny bit of Pure fake butter spread, eating it v e r y s l o w l y. Wondering if I can risk real food yet. Also my hair is disgusting from all this lying in bed, but I haven't been able to wash it because I haven't been able to control my body temperature for long enough to have a bath. Still not sure it would be a good idea to try. Moan moan moan. Very grateful to Richard for all of the looking after me he's been doing. It sucks that he has to spend so much of our relationship being a nurse, but he is very good at it. | |
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| Whether you’re celebrating with a day off, a lot of tryptophans and football or not, I figure today’s as good an excuse as any to tell you that I’m thankful for you, all my friends, without whom I would never be where -- or who -- I am today. | |
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| Anyone else have problems getting paid today? | |
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| Well, we're here. All we have set up at the moment is my Netbook and the wireless router - I haven't *looked* at LJ, Facebook, Twitter, etc, just done the odd Twitter post from the phone to let folk know we're alive. The move was hideous, but eternal and inexpressible gratitude go to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) geoffcampbell, who drove the lorry, organised the team of packers and loaders as though he were playing Tetris, and generally made the whole thing work; Pat and Dave, WANOLJ, who came round to the old house at 6 a.m. on moving day and worked like *heroes* for five hours; agc who drove to Hull from Wiltshire to help with the unloading, and etriganuk who trained over from Manchester to do the same. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. We couldn't get everything on the van, so perlmonger had to do a one way van rental at an extortionate price, and spent four hours packing and loading the last stuff in the pouring rain, not getting away from Bristol until nearly 5 p.m. He came down with a nasty chill on Tuesday , unsurprisingly, but he got here. Nothing broken in the move so far, although my ceramic duck mobile's wire broke when I tried to hang it up, so that's a casualty. We cannot find the clothes pegs, or Pete's mobile phone charger, so if anyone needs him, use the house phone or my mobile (contact details just posted in a friends locked post). I drove the cats up, which could not be described as an enjoyable experience, even for me - Iggy and Mustrum cried the whole way, and Iggy disgraced himself in his basket. EnRon, of course, just curled up together in their carrier and slept the whole way - they really are utterly bombproof, those two. When we arrived they went off exploring, but soon came home through the kitchen window, which we kept open until Pete managed to fit the cat flap on Tuesday. Except for Iggy, who disappeared on Sunday evening - we were distraught. I'll write more about this later in the cats' blog, but suffice it to say that when I was making a cup of tea at 6 this morning, he strolled into the kitchen from the living room - so he'd found his way back through this grid of Victorian terraced streets, and discovered the cat flap. I'm more relieved and happy than I can say. So, anyway, we're alive. I'll write more about the house later, but I know some people have been waiting to hear. Thanks to all those who've phoned and mailed - no time to respond now, but I'll get there. On with the unpacking - we nearly have a living room now, the kitchen is almost finished (going to paint it RED) , and Hull is good. Except that bloody Gavin still hasn't paid the sodding rent. | |
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| Can anyone help me with a broadband query.
Im with Virgin and have been for a number of years. Alot of my friends have told me to leave them as they are known for being poor, however Ive never actually had a problem with them until now.
Ive recently bought a new laptop which runs on Windows 7. My old laptop is XP. Ive tried installing the broadband software from the disc virgin first sent me, however it doesnt seem to be loading, and I keep getting this message;
"Network Adapter Error
Broadband setup CD could not renew the IP address for your network adapter (DHCP)
There may be a problem with your physical connections.
Check your connections and click retry to try again."
Ive tried clicking retry, and it just says if the problem persists to call the technical team, who I cannot get through to.
Does anyone know what this could be? Someone suggested I may need newer software....I have no clue!:( | |
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| Hmmm...has anybody here ever organised a pub quiz for charity?
If so, do you have any advice? I'm thinking this is one event I could maybe manage organising on my own but I'm not really sure how to go about it. Like, do I need a license like I would for a raffle? Etc etc. And if you have done this, would you say it was a success?
While I'm at it, anybody organised a raffle for charity? How did that go? I've been advised to do at least one raffle but again, not sure how to go about it and if I really would be able to organise one on my own!
I've got the help of a fundraising team at my disposal but I'd like to hear from some other people who have done this, including disaster stories :P
Thanks in advance :D | |
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