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From: James Jolley on 18 Apr 2010 08:45 On 2010-04-18 12:29:42 +0100, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) said: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> Plus it's nice to have it on a laptop when on holiday. Kills a few >> boring hours. > > Especially when doing long-haul flights, and using an offline reader > like MacSoup. Many's the time that I've spent the flight posting, and > then zapped the messages off from an airport while waiting for the next > connection. Good point, i'm just more of an ipod type guy though myself. Flights take it out of me.
From: Jim on 18 Apr 2010 10:10 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > Plus it's nice to have it on a laptop when on holiday. Kills a few > > boring hours. > > You should have a different kind of holiday. There are generally a couple of days when we _can't_ go anywhere, for reasons I'd rather not go into. It's handy for then. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Peter Ceresole on 18 Apr 2010 10:23 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Although, on the other hand, the good thing about an offline newsreader > is that it _is_ offline. A dicky ADSL connection can make you quite > happy about that. And, of course, there's still dialup. I'm back on the wet string for ten days, and although it's *decent* wet string, as out here I'm using a USR Courier than which there is no better dialup modem, it's still madness to try Usenet (or mail) on line. -- Peter
From: James Jolley on 18 Apr 2010 11:12 On 2010-04-18 15:10:13 +0100, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) said: > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > >>> Plus it's nice to have it on a laptop when on holiday. Kills a few >>> boring hours. >> >> You should have a different kind of holiday. > > There are generally a couple of days when we _can't_ go anywhere, for > reasons I'd rather not go into. It's handy for then. > > Jim Lol the boose you mean, that's fine, we all get shitfaced on holiday.
From: D.M. Procida on 18 Apr 2010 11:37
James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-18 15:10:13 +0100, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) said: > > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > >>> Plus it's nice to have it on a laptop when on holiday. Kills a few > >>> boring hours. > >> > >> You should have a different kind of holiday. > > > > There are generally a couple of days when we _can't_ go anywhere, for > > reasons I'd rather not go into. It's handy for then. > Lol the boose you mean, that's fine, we all get shitfaced on holiday. That's not what Jim means. Getting 'shitfaced' doesn't sound like a very enjoyable way to spend time on holiday though. Daniele |