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Adam Gillard

Login failed: java.lang.NullPointerException Still, at least the window border is really pretty. Yes, that's true. Do you want the console data from a successful log-in and an unsuccessful log-in? Or is it not worth pursuing, and I just make do with trying to get rid of a backlog of bot games so th...

Adam Gillard

What normally happens [if you want to skip the life story and get to the java message, just see the bottom line] : When I start Firefox (from it having been quit/restarted) and try to get on to the apterous game, it takes about 5 minutes to do the initial log-in, then I have to play test games with ...

Adam Gillard

Yeah well done, you could've let the audience have a go at the end though.

Adam Gillard

Kai, well done on hosting the tournament. I also think it went well. However, I was under the impression that Division A and B were going to play each other. Volante suggested it and you replied: "Actually that's a good idea. Maybe the winner of A plays the winner of B, runner-up of A plays run...

Adam Gillard

Just discovered this:

2010-07-21 04:00:11 Innis Carson got a bronze pencil for PENCILLERS!

Thanks Innis, appreciate it. On a related note, PENCILLER is still available.

Adam Gillard

Charlie and the moderation team (ahem) may have evidence to the contrary, but I don't think James Nguyen is a cheat. I'm surprised that people are jumping on the cheating bandwagon (unless there's some evidence I'm missing). Maybe we should have a poll to see what people think. I know at least one o...

Adam Gillard

Division B result: Adam Gillard 2 - 0 Tom Rowell Adam Gillard 110 - 107 Tom Rowell This first game was a corker. Tom pulled ahead as I started slowly, only managing an ode to ROWELS in R2. Then I picked VERONIQUE which got me back in it. I didn't win a single one of the next 9 rounds, which left Tom...

Adam Gillard

Mr Dog owns 9015 pairs of slippers, yet has no experience in the Way of the Dog.

Adam Gillard

Wow Innis is totally - what's the technical term - I believe it's "pwning" his division!

Adam Gillard

Fastest conundrums: international edition (please).

Adam Gillard

Three apterites on today: Michael Chadwick, Ben Warth and Matthew le Tassier - that must be a record.

Adam Gillard

Division B result: Ian Volante 0 - 2 Adam Gillard

Ian Volante 47 - 127 Adam Gillard

Ian Volante 28 - 104 Adam Gillard

Adam Gillard

The new navigation bar on the homepage is great. Well done Matt.

Adam Gillard

Charlie Reams wrote:in it's 25 months

Adam Gillard

Bullet Hypertouch Conundrum Attack.

Adam Gillard

Countdown of the future... (excuse my general uselessness with computers / image cropping; if you have the time, expertise and inclination to improve this aesthetically, please do).

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=wkgv1l&s=7

Adam Gillard

I just saw this in the Happenings on the homepage: "Scott Phillips commented on The Duellist's game with him. 41 minutes ago." (This is at approx. 12.08am). I got the message: "This game is part of today's Daily Duel, you'll have to wait til tomorrow to view it." Presumably this ...

Adam Gillard

Ryan Taylor wrote:I'm saying nothing!

Yes, nothing well said.

Adam Gillard

I have a great new Idea, called capture the flags. ... Also, if you really wanted to make some serious dosh, you could charge Adam Gillard for using this feature, because I think he would fucking love it and would be prepared to pay loads to be part of it. I think you've misjudged me both in spendt...

Adam Gillard

Somebody who shall remain nameless sent me a hyperlinked PM saying "Like this message". I believe that would be classified as like-whoring. I didn't click the link.

Adam Gillard

I just discovered the words LOSINGEST and WINNINGEST. I'm not a language purist, but... (you can "Openbook" that phrase too Charlie)... I am mentally and even physically (to a lesser extent) repulsed by those two words.

Adam Gillard

I have a book at home called Countdown - The Ultimate Challenge (Wylie & Eadie, 2005). Apart from Whiteley being spelt wrong on the front cover, there is something else that bothers me. In the introduction on page 8, it is claimed that the selection AAIIRHKTS yields a 9-letter word, TARAHIKIS (f...

Adam Gillard

... you get given a nickname by Charles "Charlie" Reams (seriously though, I'm quite pleased with "Cheeky").

Adam Gillard

Wonderful stuff Eoin! I really enjoyed watching that - great conundrum solve as well.

Adam Gillard

PROOFREAD is in, but that's it. No PROOFREADS* or PROOFREADING*.

Adam Gillard

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Forgot to post my games with McCullagh from Monday. 2 - 1 to me including a friggin sweet pencil in game 3. Cheers Ed

Ed 104 - 111 Dinos
Ed 101 - 90 Dinos
Dinos 100 - 91 Ed

I suppose you could say his woonerven got the better of him. <insert *groan*>

Adam Gillard

I was looking at the "Most maxes" page on Statland, and I noticed that the figure for German 15 was 14 maxes (tied twice). This game is bug-affected, and I'm assuming the other two 14-max games are too (wherever they may be).

Adam Gillard

CARBOXYLASE in a 10-second Hypertouch round is one of the best spots I've ever made on apterous.

Adam Gillard

beheadings

Adam Gillard

... you log on to do the Duel, only to realise that you already did it at 12.01 am

Adam Gillard

Division B: Adam Gillard 104 - 59 Jim Bentley I made a nice start, including a pencil for MADERISED in the first round, and ended up with a 40 point lead after the second conundrum. Jim then spotted an 8 just too late from this selection: K ISOLATED (he had ISOL typed). It was a comfortable win for ...

Adam Gillard

When you click the Speed Letters Attack challenge under Miscellany, a Step Letters Attack comes up instead. I think this is just a typo and was meant to say Step Letters Attack, which doesn't appear anywhere else. Similarly, it should be "Lightning" and not "Lightdown" Goatdown ...

Adam Gillard

All true. Tarquin and I had a good laugh about that. Now where did I put my port?

Adam Gillard

25 100 9 9 6 6 -> 912

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

Adam Gillard

Hugh Binnie 100 - 108 Adam Gillard A pretty closely fought first game, with a couple of nines thrown in. Realising I had a 22-point advantage with 2 rounds to play, I simply tried to make sure the final letters selection wouldn't yield a nine. Hugh Binnie 86 - 80 Adam Gillard Also closely fought, w...

Adam Gillard

I tried a Russian conundrum attack with Giles Hutchings, and it only lets you click one letter (then you can't click any others). I managed to type more letters using my Mac's Cyrillic keyboard, but you really need to be able to click them one by one (since people either don't have a Cyrillic keybo...

Adam Gillard

Yes that is strange Miriam. One that just came to my attention was FRO*. I suppose it's only ever used in the set phrase "to and fro" / "to-ing and fro-ing", so that would be why it isn't in. Or, as Mark James suggested, is it an abbreviation of "towards and from", henc...

Adam Gillard

I like Kai's avatar, because it shows who he is, is colourful, demonstrates creativity, and beats like the hearts of the girls he will possibly be fighting off later in life. I also liked his previous one with the two smileys which only lasted about 2 days. Interesting that some people have too man...

Adam Gillard

I think Bayfield would die happy if he ever pencilled this (also only available in Dutch - some controversy over the second 'D' though...)

Adam Gillard

Adam Gillard 73 - 72 Ryan Taylor Ryan Taylor 82 - 91 Adam Gillard Two closely fought, well mannered games. In the second game we each spotted a 9 that the other missed, which led to a crucial final conundrum (but Ryan needed 10 points, so couldn't wait for the extra letter). Thanks for the games Ry...

Adam Gillard

I tried a Russian conundrum attack with Giles Hutchings, and it only lets you click one letter (then you can't click any others). I managed to type more letters using my Mac's Cyrillic keyboard, but you really need to be able to click them one by one (since people either don't have a Cyrillic keyboa...

Adam Gillard

Charlie Reams wrote:I believe this is now fixed, and I managed to sign in as you from my Mac. I've given you an extra week on your subscription since you were completely locked out.

Yes, I've successfully logged in. Thank you.

Adam Gillard

When I saw Charlie had posted in this thread, I thought he might have some news. Instead he's banging on about the Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974 (well, that's what Google said).

Adam Gillard

Charlie Reams wrote:I'll have a look at this tonight and see if I can figure out what's up.

Thanks.

Adam Gillard

Well I've tried googling around (that's how I found the site that tests if your Java is working), but to be honest I don't know what the problem is, so I don't know what I should be searching for. I also don't know how to uninstall Java, seeing as it's built in to the Mac. I also don't want to unins...

Adam Gillard

Back to topic... any thoughts on how to fix it, Charlie?

Adam Gillard

I tried clearing the cache and that didn't help. I've tried restarting the browser, restarting my computer, and logging out and in on the homepage and that didn't help. According to this page , my Java is working correctly . It's just apterous that doesn't work - my Java works fine in general (I'm g...

Adam Gillard

It sounds like your download of the applet got corrupted. I'd suggest following these instructions to flush the cache. Thanks for the advice, but the control panel depicted in those instructions is different to my one. The only thing I have is Java Preferences. If I click the "Network" ta...

Adam Gillard

Michael Wallace wrote:I find your anti-catholic ignorance very annoying. You should have noticed that I have an imaginary friend who tells me what to do and I am going to tell on you.

Very good.

Adam Gillard

Kai Laddiman wrote:Pairings are here.

(If it doesn't work PM me or something and I'll do my best.)

Adam Gillard - Ryan Taylor. That had an air of inevitability about it.

Adam Gillard

Yeah, I'm a bastard - deal with it. I think the problem is that our sense of humours are at completely different ends of the spectrum. Yep When an edgy comedian makes a racist joke he isn't himself a racist. Just like I am not anti-Semitic. Well don't make anti-Semitic jokes then I laughed at your ...

Adam Gillard

Oh and I still can't get on to the game, which is why I posted in this forum in the first place.

Adam Gillard

How is it ok for you to call people racists and homophobes with no evidence No evidence? You just posted a picture saying that being gay is "bad news for you". That's homophobic. It's not out of order to refer to someone who makes a homophobic post as a homophobe or someone who makes raci...

Adam Gillard

Homophobe. And stop littering this forum with massive pictures else the actual bug reports may go unnoticed. TWAT Much as I value your opinion Ryan... wait, what am I talking about? Seems my first impression of you was spot on. Unfortunately I'm not clever enough to avoid replying to the drivel tha...

Adam Gillard

Especially as Gillard doesn't seem to have been on much recently since Ryan done a racist all over him. Innis would beat me to it anyway, whatever it is. You may have noticed that I am never on between Friday night and Saturday night. Being annoyed at Ryan's anti-Semitic ignorance; never being on a...

Adam Gillard

Homophobe. And stop littering this forum with massive pictures else the actual bug reports may go unnoticed.

Adam Gillard

I haven't been able to log in since the server reboot. I just get a piece of paper with a red 'X' on it in the top left corner of the window. Here's the Java stuff: Java Plug-in 1.5.0 Using JRE version 1.5.0_24 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM ---------------------------------------------------- MRJ Plugi...

Adam Gillard

Got some conundrum removal requests, I think this topic is the most suited place to post them: The second one is a stupid word, with a much more common anagram which for some reason is not in the dictionary yet. Is UNCATERED* the anagram you're referring to? I honestly can't think of another plausi...

Adam Gillard

most of all I love the new cereal " Krave "....chocolate pillows with a hazelnut centre too. (There's also a brand called Choco Pillows that are just as awesome). We really like Chocolatey Squares , and so were quite interested in Krave when it came out. Krave tastes really weirdly salty ...

Adam Gillard

Charlie Reams wrote:
Adam Gillard wrote:How about multiplayer for Flat 15 / other flat scoring games? That would be pretty cool.
That's basically the Duel.

Fair enough. How about more Duels incorporating Hypertouchundrums then?

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