On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:21:08 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 30 Jan 2009 14:06:08 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
>>> Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water ;)
>>
>>Buzz!  Hesitation! ;-)
>>
>>
> <hands up>

Is this a robbery? ;-)

>>> Versailles.
>>
>>Oooh, nice move, though it's not clear which station you're at - it
>>doesn't affect my move to Porchefontaine.
>>
> Before we go, Eiffel Tower.

OK, now we've been there, it's time to head back to England.  Let's start 
from Le Havre.

>>> What a carry on with my laptop. It was refusing to boot up 4 times out
>>> of 5, shutting down hard just after the option to enter the bios. So I
>>> reinstalled Vista, would you believe it formatted my HDD not just the
>>> vista partition. Luckily I saved all my Pov files (16 Gigs including
>>> meshes) to an external HDD. Now I'm in the process of loading all the
>>> programmes I use. At least I can winnow out the ones I installed but
>>> don't use. I bought a 1 TB external drive so I won't have to do that
>>> again, just restore an image. Phew!
>>
>>Ugh, sounds like fun.  Or maybe not. ;-)
> 
> Maybe not, indeed :)

Having had problems like that with various laptops, you have my 
sympathies.

Jim

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