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  1. What I heard is that it was only if you became a "fan" (in the Facebook sense of becoming a fan of a page) of the Fan Check application that you were at risk of getting a virus. This was because they had allegedly sent out a message to all its fans via the Facebook message interface, which contained a virus (or perhaps a link to a virus), much like viruses that are spread via attachments in regular e-mails. I can't verify this personally, as I never became a fan of the application. But I have to say this sounds much more feasible than just getting a virus because of simply using an application, or even just being tagged in a photo by someone else using the application, even when you don't have anything to do with it. James
  2. You didn't fall off then ... James
  3. The timetable starts at King's Cross, yeah, but it does include both Huntingdon and Stevenage, if you look at all the stations on there. The first half of each timetable is for trains from Stevenage to Huntingdon, and the second half is for trains from Huntingdon to Stevenage. Hope that helps. But if you're not used to reading formal train timetables, then you're probably better off using the web site NobbyNobbs linked to originally. You asked for a timetable though, so that's what I gave you. James
  4. Never heard that word before! James
  5. Gordie

    What to do

    Well said. You did better than I probably would've done, Tally. James
  6. Don't forget Sky have an hour-long weekly highlights show from the plinth, so if your hour is considered by them to be good enough, you might even get on telly! http://www.skyarts.co.uk/site/plinth/ The first showing of "your week" will be on Sky Arts 1 (and Sky Arts 1 HD) at 7pm on Friday, September 18th, but there will be plenty more showings throughout the week ahead on the various Sky channels. Might be worth a look, if you can endure Clive Anderson. Good luck. James
  7. You're about as subtle as I normally am! James
  8. Yay! Well done! Looking forward to it, although I guess it's probably gonna be about a year from now before it's actually shown. (I still don't think this is "Off Topic" though - cue Kathryn to come along and move it again. ) Hope you and Alex are getting on great. James
  9. Pah - you've got nothing on me. I'm almost at SIX years!! 12 days to go ... Course I've only made 431 posts in that time, compared to your 8,388 - that's the true gauge. So yeah - you do need a life. James
  10. Autistic musicians definitely exist! No, not me ... but the Autism Research Centre (ARC) (based in Cambridge) occasionally holds "Autism, Art & Music" concerts, specifically for musicians with autism. The last one was held in London's West End, at the Savoy Theatre, no less, in October last year, with Jools Holland (an ARC patron) hosting! I don't know if they're planning another one this year or not. But their web site might be worth keeping an eye on if you're interested. James
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    London Mini-Meet

    I've been to that shop ... except for New Zealand purposes with my family, including my soon-to-be-sister-in-law, who's a Kiwi. The address (if it's any help) is on their web site: http://www.angloaustraliantrading.com/aatc...ompanyInfo.aspx Don't be confused by the fact it quadruples as an "Australia/New Zealand/South Africa/Canada Shop"! Maybe that's why you didn't know where it was, coz it says "Australia Shop" on the front, not "South Africa Shop", but it actually stocks stuff from all 4 countries. James
  12. The full timetables for your route (between Huntingdon and Stevenage, and vice-versa) can be found at the following web pages - these are PDFs, so you'll need Adobe Reader installed on your system to view them ... Mondays to Fridays | Saturdays | Sundays (all valid until December 12th) James
  13. Alex is 24 ... ... at the other end of the spectrum to him and his mum, I flew to the US in 2001, aged 20, entirely on my own, to stay with my then-girlfriend in Iowa at her parents' house for 6 weeks (was supposed to be more like 10 weeks, but I got too homesick)!! However did I manage?! If I had Alex's mum for a mum, she'd have had a heart attack at the prospect, I would imagine! James
  14. Yeah, but they were so small and subtle on the cars level. And sometimes things would be kinda in-between the 4 corners when zoomed-in, but I suppose that was common to all 3 levels. James
  15. Thanks, all. something_different: You're bonkers! 3 more, but you knew that already. Hey, nellie - I thought you'd left! Or maybe it was just that you'd relinquished your moderating duties. James
  16. The cars (Level 2) seemed the trickiest to me. James
  17. I have a tendency to do this on occasions when it's something I really like ... but I do wish I wouldn't get that urge, as it usually ends up with me going off the song forever! I end up overplaying it till it's just "okay", rather than something I absolutely love. I blame the fact that I'm rarely able to feel excited about anything any more for that urge taking over whenever I do feel it. James
  18. Hang on, Mumble - it wasn't you that first used those terms - it was me. You were just quoting me, for want of a better phrase, so you have nothing to apologise for. And I was only using those terms to describe Tom as I saw him during that half-hour (his story probably took up about half-an-hour of the hour-long programme), and it wasn't meant to be implied to refer to anyone else. Being on BBC Three, I would imagine they thought the target audience (16 to 34) would only have a limited attention span for this sort of programme, hence an hour was about as far as they could realistically go. A controversial opinion, yes, but that might've been their line of thinking when commissioning this show. James
  19. Argh! That was all right the first time around, but I was stupid enough to have a second go, which seemed sooooooo much harder!! James
  20. That sort of thing's happened to me before too, for obvious reasons! I've not been best pleased!! I think the last time was while standing in a bus queue in Exeter with my then-girlfriend, and the two of us were referred to (by a beggar, if I remember correctly!) as "ladies". People should look at a whole person, not just their hair length! Especially if they're begging for something! Well I sure hope so. James
  21. Wow - what a great story. That's so impressive. Congratulate her from me, please! (Even if she won't have the first idea who I am! ) James
  22. Oooh - one final thing Kirsty might like to know ... According to Digital Spy, you were watched by approximately 679,000 people on Tuesday night!! (That's 3.4% of the people watching TV between 9pm and 10pm, and over 1% of the population of Great Britain!) - http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a170916/lat...-2-million.html (at the bottom of the page) And look - you beat E4's first showing of the latest episode of Ugly Betty! Yeah, good point - I hadn't really noticed that. James
  23. Well, apart from Kirsty and Alex stealing the show(!) (in my eyes anyway) (see above for what I said about them) ... Overall, I was very impressed with the show. It was well-made: positive while still being informative and "real". The filmmaker had obviously thought very carefully about how to fairly and effectively portray those with autistic spectrum disorders. Can't say I thought much of Tom's mum though - bit of a bad attitude. Tom seemed the "least autistic" of the 3 featured guys - little more than just a bratty teenager with anger management issues, as far as I could see (although I appreciate we probably only saw about half-an-hour of his life). But, if he does have an element of autism about him, then he can't have been helped by the upbringing of his parents, constantly treating him like a kid. His mum should've been happy for him that some girl somewhere thought positively of him - this girl obviously made him happy ... until she was unable to visit him, of course. His mum just wanted to keep him all to herself, openly admitting that she still sees him as her 4-year-old. Oli's attitude, on the other hand, to the world of work was fantastic - something I really admired, given my rather lackadaisical attitude to it. How he was / has been unemployed for so long, with enthusiasm like his, I have no idea. Okay - gonna respond to some comments in this thread now ... You're dead right. I've had the odd job here and there that has involved repetitive data entry, but they've only been temporary jobs, and I've been quite content with that for a limited amount of time. It's not something I could handle doing over a prolonged period, however good at it I may be (and I would be). Oli's clearly looking for something permanent and stable, so repetitive data entry surely wouldn't be suitable for him - there'd be no mental stimulation at all beyond the first week. You could tell from his initial reaction that he didn't fancy it either. Me too. Thought it was vital to everyone watching that they showed the bit with Kirsty's face cards, otherwise most neurotypicals would've thought it was an awful date. I think it was more that Tom was feeling thoroughly miserable about his female friend not being able to visit him. I used to go into very depressed states like that a few years back, just lying on my bed, facing the wall, blocking everything out, not wanting to be disturbed at all, hence Tom lashing out when his mum came in. All you wanna do is beat yourself up (metaphorically speaking), and you don't want anyone trying to cheer you up, coz you don't feel you deserve to be cheered up. Yeah! Me too! That was ridiculous! Not the timing of the exam (as that would've been fixed months previous), but the timing of his departure from home. Couldn't have been any worse! James
  24. Whew! You had me worried then! I'd been refreshing the "Off-Topic" forum to check for any new posts, and suddenly the whole thread had disappeared! I thought something I'd said had caused you to delete it or something! But now I know it's here, merged with the other thread, and not deleted(!), I can say it's nice to see you again, Kathryn. Otherwise I might've had different thoughts! Well I was gonna reply to what was previously "the other thread" a bit later too, once I'd digested all the comments made so far, so, to do that now, I'll have to add to what's already in this new thread from me so far ... James
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