A repeated good morning to all. Hope your days have started well !

It's a spy code, isn't it? Each day your spy handler checks this thread to see that you haven't been assassinated in the night. You thought that this obscure part of the Internet would provide adequate cover. And if, one day, you don't greet us in the agreed manner, well...

The grumpy owl flies from the painted barn at midnight. Repeat, the grumpy owl flies from the painted barn at midnight.

Oh a filet of fish is just enough to give Gaywood a treat.

Is she meant to be coming in that video?

Video?

At least you don't look 500 years old.

Some gay cunt.

Apparently

At least you don't look 500 years old.

Your new avatar is shit. I demand it returns to Sambot. That is all.

Your new avatar is shit. I demand it returns to Sambot. That is all.

Let's take photos of both Craster and Myp in their portrait poses on the weekend so we can compare them.

Based on the hairline, 5 years sounds about right.

Where as your one with the maths geek and his posh car (who doesn't know that 1 is an integer?) is, of course, perfect

This will probably only appeal to JC, but my Alienware laptop (finally) showed up today. I'd been expecting something that was a bit of a letdown, a bit crap and therefore very easy to part with on eBay for (possibly) a bit more than I paid for it.

What's actually arrived is the most beautifully packaged, gorgeously designed and well-built computer I've ever laid eyes on. And I've owned many different varieties of Apple Mac over the years. It's really something else. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to part with it.

Sadly although I needed to be at home to be able to sign for it, I couldn't blag the day off and so I'm having to work from home. So I've got this gorgeousness sitting next to me, but I'm too busy to be able to have a proper go and put it through it's paces.

Linky to the laptop, Zio?

http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/notebooks/alienware-m15x/pd.aspx?refid=alienware-m15x&cs=19&s=dhs

The pictures really do not do it justice. I did think it looked pretty vulgar in the photos, but the reality is quite something. Not even remotely portable, the body is metal and it weighs a tonne. Mine is 'lunar silver', which is actually a kind of gunmetal grey.

The packaging is really something too. The manual is a leatherbound job that's actually looks posh-er (and worryingly larger) than the manual that came with my bloody car!

It even comes with an incredibly daft looking baseball cap, the kind that only smelly nerds that don't wash properly would ever dream of wearing in public.

I took a couple of photos, mostly so I knew where everything went for re-boxing and shoving on eBay, but I'm seriously wondering if this might be a keeper now, and I'll sell my desktop PC instead. It's that nice.

Probably a stupid question - why does a jpg that looks identical on everyone else's machine, look different (in terms of colour palette) on one particular computer? The computer itself is used for graphics work so has a load of Adobe things on it. If you open the image in Windows Picture Viewer, it's fine, but not in Photoshop. I could put that down to Photoshop itself, but it's also wrong in her Firefox too, but yet IE is fine.

Sounds like a colour space thingy.

Firefox may be getting it's colour info from Photoshop.

Does this machine have a fancy high colour range monitor?

You need Zardoz or Mallowbar for details, but expensive monitors can show a greater colour range.

It'll be that

Isn't is just one using RGB and the other using CMYK? I'm pretty sure PS uses CMYK.

Hmm.. the bloke opposite her though as exactly the same monitor and does graphical work too and it's fine on his. I might ignore the problem until it goes away.