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From: Geoff Berrow on 21 Feb 2010 09:46 On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:48:55 +0000, Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: >When I was about 7 my Dad used to go to London a lot so I was left alone >in the house. Dad smoked and had a petrol lighter (one of those where >you pull the bottom off to refill it, it had cotton wool inside). We had >a Rayburn, and to assuage the boredom I used to get his bottle of >lighter fuel, open the Rayburn door, and swish some in. It went >WUMPooooossshhhhh every time. One day it did that a bit more forcefully, >and the flash ignited the bottle's cork stopper (it had a little glass >tube through it). So there I was, aged 7, holding a Molotov cocktail in >my hand. > >Luckily I was awake enough to just blow the cork out. I put the bottle >back on the shelf AND DIDN'T DO IT AGAIN! When I was a boy our old gas cooker has a gas outlet that you could use to supply gas to another appliance by means of a rubber hose. We had a copper boiler that was attached in this way. I used it to power a home made bunsen burner to make stuff like Cartesian divers out of glass tubing and to heat red mercuric oxide to create liquid mercury. On hearing that coal gas was lighter than air, I modified a bicycle pump and a football inflator to blow up balloons with coal gas. They did float. Nothing went bang, apart from the canons we used to make every year around bonfire night. I sometimes wonder how I survived unscathed... -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Bella Jones on 27 Feb 2010 07:29
Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote: > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:47:32 +0000, me9(a)privacy.net (Bella Jones) > > > wrote: > > > > > > >Currently trying to figure out how to get email accounts to show read > > > >messages. > > > > > > If you are reading it on your computer you may well have pulled it off > > > the server. > > > > I mean on the iphone. when i read an unread message it dsappears. Ah, > > you have to ask it to keep a copy? boring! I thought i'd asked gmail to > > do that. Think i'll use it at the web site instead. > > I've set mine up using the exchange settings > <http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic= > 14252> > which gives you push email to the iPhone. > > I'm not synchronizing contacts/calendars, leaving that to iTunes. It all seems to be ok now on the email front. -- bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk |