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Edwin Mead

Edwin Mead 99-103 Oliver Garner
Edwin Mead 51-92 Oliver Garner

Well played Oliver. After the first game, I thought I was going to be thoroughly thrashed, but I surprised myself by leading before the conundrum in the following game.

Edwin Mead

James Robinson wrote:If you're nowhere near a TV set, The Guardian has setup a live blog for today's show:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/tvan ... ue-burnley

Irritatingly, this blog gives out the solutions at the same time as the puzzles. Don't read it if you want to play along.

Edwin Mead

3 close games:

Edwin Mead 72-87 Andrew Feist
Edwin Mead 100-72 Andrew Feist
Edwin Mead 97-74 Andrew Feist

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What do people make of Norton? I've not heard anything good about it. I hear the latest version may be a bit better, but it has always carried a reputation of being resource-hungry. The paid-for security software I would recommend is McAfee SecurityCenter. I've used McAfee for several years now, an...

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I got as far as working out the number of combinations after the first round (I reckon this is 94, but am ready to be corrected), but then my head started to hurt when I began thinking about round 2.

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The predictive text in 'User Search' doesn't work. The following error can be found after some text is entered in the box:

Line: 282
Char: 2
Error: 'onErrorFunc' is undefined
Code: 0
URL: http://www.apterous.org/

Edwin Mead

Hence why You'll have the Tautological Police Of Tautologies on you... You're mellowing Charlie. I recall a similar slip (Martin Gardner) I think and you told him you'd be hitting him right now. What's going on? Is it age-related? Say it ain't so - I love watching you running people out of the foru...

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We could do away with all these languages (and this poll) if everyone learnt Esperanto. The world would be a much simpler place. And much less interesting. I think that Esperanto is much more glamorous in my daydreaming mind, where I foresee a harmonious world where everybody speaks one ridiculous ...

Edwin Mead

We could do away with all these languages (and this poll) if everyone learnt Esperanto. The world would be a much simpler place.

Edwin Mead

Great avatar, Dinos!

Edwin Mead

May I enter the knockout stage please?

Edwin Mead

I'd like to see Keith Chegwin as a guest.

Edwin Mead

After tinkering a bit further yesterday evening, I think that the problem is that Windows 7 does not like my square old monitor. Increasing the font size helps me view/read everything except Apterous (but what's the point of having a computer if you can't play Apterous?) I discovered a tool in Windo...

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I've just bought and installed a new PC, but when playing Apterous the text is far too small to play without giving me a headache.

Altering the general screen text size doesn't change the size of the text within Apterous. I suspect it's something to do with Java.

Can anyone suggest anything please?

Edwin Mead

I agree too.

Not often I get off my bottom and actually post anything here, but I feel compelled to make my opionion known on this matter.

Edwin Mead

Ben Wilson wrote:Following on from Jim's suggestion here, how about a slightly more politically-correctly named 'Apterous Soap' that starts off Rex-like and gradually sheds words from his memory as he spots them

I think this may be interesting if he sheds words from his memory as his opponents spot them?

Edwin Mead

I'm afraid I haven't any more suggestions. Sorry I couldn't help, I expect someone who knows a thing or two more than I do will be able to give you better advice.

Edwin Mead

Ian Volante wrote:
Edwin Mead wrote:This is possibly a stupid suggestion, but have you tried completely uninstalling Java, and reinstalling?
Yep!

How about trying different browsers (firefox, chrome, opera....)?

Edwin Mead

This is possibly a stupid suggestion, but have you tried completely uninstalling Java, and reinstalling?

Edwin Mead

Marc Meakin wrote:Films have The Oscars, television has the Emmys, music has The Grammies......countdown (or the C4C forum) should have The Charlies.

or The Cecils?

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I heard this story on Today on Radio 4, where I'm sure they said that they had the intruder pinned to the ground, at which point they should have ceased their self defence and called in the coppers.

It makes much more interesting/shocking reading if this fact is removed from the story.

Edwin Mead

Flight A

Edwin Mead 101-73 Niall Seymour
Edwin Mead 89-58 Niall Seymour

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Happenings on the main Apterous page:

"Betty Power played his first game."

Either this is a bug, or there's something Betty isn't telling us!

Edwin Mead

No wrestlers in the list?? Hulk Hogan would get my vote.

Edwin Mead

I managed to beat the max score in round 3 of this game.

Edwin Mead

In the first round of games (for some reason this doesn't happen after the first round), I often find I can't enter anything (word, numbers solution) until after several seconds. The timer is obviously still going because the round will "start" with the clock some of the way round, althou...

Edwin Mead

How about David Sullivan?

Edwin Mead

Scott Phillips played The Scrabbler's Scramble and had a few words disallowed...well all of them....including geranium , which is surely in the Scrabble dictionary. Is there an error with this wordlist? Also it then said in aptochat: Scott Phillips completed Star 2 of The Scrabbler's Scramble with ...

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Flight A

Edwin Mead 93 - 97 Andy Wilson
Edwin Mead 88 - 84 Andy Wilson
Edwin Mead 103 - 62 Andy Wilson

Edwin Mead

I'm in last place of Flight A according to the stats (truly shameful!), but shouldn't my Net Games be higher than those who didn't play their game in the last round? I have won one more game than them, after all?

Edwin Mead

Flight A for me please.

Edwin Mead

I managed to finish in third place on Monday (my best ever result) and then last place yesterday (my worst ever result)!

This averages out, putting me mid-table, where I belong.

Edwin Mead

It's working fine now. I got an error message earlier when copying the link, but it looks like it's fixed (the link is also now clickable).

Edwin Mead

I can't see the new tournament page, the link above isn't working.

Am I being stupid or is there a problem?

Edwin Mead

I probably won't do very well, but I'd like to join in please.

Edwin Mead

Innis Carson wrote:A similar outburst can be seen here:

http://apterous.org/chatlog.php?log=1248035505816

How nice to see that people speak so highly of me when my back is turned!

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