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Re: Fake Britain: A Map Of Fictional Locations In England, Scotland And Wales

sbisson — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 05:38:08 -0000

A couple more from Sayer's Wimsey books. Wilvercombe in Have His Carcass is a resort town on what appears to be the North Devon coast, probably near Ilfracombe (or possibly renaming it) and Riddlesdale in North Yorkshire from Clouds of Witness.

I'm not sure if Duke's Denver counts, but it's a few miles east of the actual Denver in Norfolk.

Re: Opening Windows again (part 1)

sbisson — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:35:24 -0000

There's actually some nifty stuff going on with the batteries; there should normally always be enough charge in the base to remove the screen. If you look carefully the screen uses the same connector as the Surface charger, so you can use the charging cable to charge the screen separately from the keyboard base.

Re: Labour's latest policy proposal: everybody should have his own owl

sbisson — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:59:32 -0000

Well, remember that classic 80s New Statesman competition to find a new proverb? The winner was "An owl in a sack troubles no man." I think we can all agree with that.

Re: Microsoft in 2013: Big changes, big surprises, and a unifying vision

sbisson — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 06:19:20 -0000

Ooops! Fixed my typo.

Re: The Tripods Trilogy Is a Rare Young Adult Story About Failing as a Hero

sbisson — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 07:19:09 -0000

There's a fourth book written 20 years later, which shows the actual invasion. Like many of Christopher's other books it's a very British disaster story, where you know that no-one is going to get out of it well...

Re: BlackBerry: Confident enough to go beyond BlackBerry

sbisson — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:54:37 -0000

Even the BlackBerry folk have to take turns!

Re: Life after TweetDeck: Here are five alternatives

sbisson — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:15:38 -0000

Well, that's not quite right. Tweetdeck desktop will still continue - it's just not an AIR app any more. The Chromium wrapped, locally running version of the Tweetdeck web app is actually rather good - it's become my tool of choice recently. The real issue is the end of Facebook integration...

Re: First Photos Revealed for BBC AMERICA’s ‘The Musketeers’

sbisson — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:57:05 -0000

"Hello, My name is D'Artagnan. You killed my father, prepare to die!"

Re: Upcoming appearances this spring and summer!

sbisson — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:32:08 -0000

See you at Maker Faire!

Re: Wordament Web Beta

sbisson — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:50:12 -0000

It works just fine in the UK!

Re: R.I.P., Ted Kennedy

sbisson — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:53:29 -0000

So Fake Steve is really E. J. Thribb (17½)...

Re: How will we get our news? (Scripting News)

sbisson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:42:01 -0000

The problem isn't one of newspapers dying - it's one of too many local papers and no real national paper. The newspaper is doing just fine elsewhere in the world.