The National Australia Bank has acquired, no doubt after considerable payments to markting consultants, a new logo: nab.
From the online dictionary:
nab
tr.v. Informal nabbed, nab·bing, nabs
1. To seize (a fugitive or wrongdoer); arrest.
2. To grab; snatch.
Pure marketing genius that.
(Hat-tip to the New Internationalist)
No, not something that, as a cyclist, I write very often, but this morning when 36 cyclists arrived at Charing Cross Station for an architectural tour that was starting from Hastings, Southeastern Trains (albeit after a bit of throwing a tizz and having to be persuaded), sensibly ensured space on the train by devoting one of the first-class carriages, which would on a Saturday have been empty anyway, to housing the bicycles. So they went first-class and we second, but it was a perfectly sensibly arrangement.
More on the tour tomorrow…
If you’re expecting me to contact you or do something, I will, I hope, be fully back on the air soon.
UPDATE: After 24 hours the problem appears to mysteriously have fixed itself, or else the actions I took finally had an effect. I accidentally opened Outlook Express by the back door by clicking on an “email me” link. It didn’t crash, so then I very cautiously, with my fingers crossed, opened the whole thing, and it worked. Perhaps the finger-crossing did it… I’ve opened it several times since and it seems OK. I’ve still got all the display boxed unchecked and the screen looks a bit odd, but I’m going to live with that.)
A request for help, because I know my readers know everything – today I restarted the (newly new Dell) PC (running Windows XP) in an attempt to get a file to print (a problem I’ve had and solution that I’ve been using for years), and which may have been unrelated to the subsequent problem.
When the machine booted up, Outlook, the email programme I use, refused to open, generating an error message. I think the problem is with “Sysfader”, because the blank square from the “Outlook opening box” just stays there, white, and when I try to shut down the machine the error message is that it is not responding. (Although the “close anyway” command works.)
What I’ve tried:
* going back to several different system restore points
* unticking all of things under Control Panel – Performance and Maintenance – Adjust Visual Effects – Performance Options (based on something I read on a website.)
* Switching off Google desktop.
None of which had any effect.
Outlook has in it several emails that I don’t have elsewhere that I need now. Help!!!!!!
Extra note: I’m running up-to-date Zone Alarm with anti-virus, anti-spyware etc, so I don’t think there is a problem like that.
(Suggestions to throw a meringue pie in the face of Bill Gates will also go down well. As I was discussing with a genuine techie yesterday, if computers were cars…)
If it is running in Britain with “roll bars, side-impact protection and seatbelts”, and fixed, non-exploitative fares, is a tuk-tuk still a tuk-tuk?
I’m playing with the idea of the possibility of a shared wireless network. I live in a 17-storey block of 70 flats, of concrete construction. I was wondering if it would be possible to set up a shared network, maybe across a few floors, or the whole block.
Anyone have any experience of this, either as a user or in the set-up? I’m interested in technical issues (simply expressed) and the nature of the account – can you just get a normal subscription, or given the bandwidth, do you have to get a special, expensive, one? What sort of admin/security/discipline issues arise?
All feedback gratefully received – I found one reasonably relevant article, but it is a bit on the technical side for me, and a bit old.
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