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It's my dad's birthday next week and I've just ordered a present that, if he likes it, has a second part I can give him for Christmas 
Other than that, nope.
I like doing as few as possible for Christmas.
Some people insist on sending a card, but I've managed to keep that number to an absolute minimum...
Sending cards to people you never see anyway or to people you see almost daily, ugh!
What a horrible time-consuming tradition! 
So that leaves eating all the good food at my parent's house, om nom nom!
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No...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It should be illegal to discuss anything to do with 'that' until after 5th November!
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Didn't mean to jingle your bells.
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snow problem....... 
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Is that that pagan shopping festival that occurs every December? Don't do that; nothing to think about! Simples!
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Sister-in-law's birthday tomorrow, mother-in-law's on Wednesday, wife's on Friday, over sister-in-law's the following week, two neices and a nephew in November.
Get through that lot and maybe start to think about Christmas.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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You do realise that, given it's Samsung, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5" Titanium Bronze Plus will be released in another 2 weeks. You'll probably have to keep the one your bought for yourself and get the missus the new one. It's only fair.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Get thee behind me, Satan!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Get thee behind me, Santa!
FTFY
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Would be nice. Sammy's using last year's phone chips in their tablets, making them kinda meh performance wise. A faster chip would be a nice upgrade. Them putting the buttons in the proper android order instead of bass 'ackwards would be nice too, but is probably too much to hope for.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Only as far as Beth's started baking[^] and we're actually managing to keep Toblerone in the cupboard unopened (which in itself is a miracle!). 
We've not done any shopping yet, but the Christmas Parties seem to almost as soon as Halloween is past. We've two booked so far (one for the office and one for my church) but I'm sure others will be along soonish.
In other news I can predict that there will be absolutely no turkey.
Anna ( @annajayne)
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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OriginalGriff wrote: ... it's less than ten weeks to Christmas.
Sod that, its only 16 weeks till skiing! 
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xkcd strikes again: https://xkcd.com/679/[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Got a lot of about 20 updates...hidden inside a real gem 3035583...What I really love is the description of it: "Install this update to resolve issues in Windows"...Really?!
I think a will skip it for know...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Shalom, Kornfeld,
That KB is the trojan horse that will automatically download Win 10 to your machine even if you have not chosen to install Win 10.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I know - after all the reports I saw I memorized it's number by heart 
That's why I found the 'description' so 'funny'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: "Install this update to resolve issues in Windows"
It will install Linux on your machine? 
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Perhaps it won't, but I will. I'm ditching Windows after MS's nonsense.
Steve
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Which particular nonsense?
And who to go to? Apple for their nonsense, Google for their nonsense or Linus for his nonsense?
The choices!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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With all the difficulties I've been having trying to recover my Itunes music library, I discovered a great number of similarities between the Itunes program and Microsoft Edge. Did Microsoft hire former staff from Apple?
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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Yeah, I switch to linux (Mint Cinnamon) for my laptop after running 10 for a number of weeks. Since I don't game or Photoshop on my laptop, everything is working great. All my normal applications work just fine (Firefox, Thunderbird, Libre Office, etc). My main machine though will stay windows, linux gaming isn't there yet (getting better though) and Gimp sucks compared to Photoshop.
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Same here. Mint-Cinnamon; lightning fast, stable, just works. As soon as I find a replacement for Ditto, it'll be perfect.
I only keep a win10 for .Net development, which even may be replaced by Mono sometime in the future.
"The primary trait of a good programmer is laziness. Nobody works harder to do nothing than a good programmer." - MehGerbil
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Strange or not, I had got the Windows 10 download into my SSD which was terrible as it took a lot of space, but, now that I've installed all the updates (important and optional) it has disappeared again. I still have the Get Windows 10 icon near the clock, but...
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I've had Microsoft try to install this trojan multiple times. This is why I double check the information on MSDN. When all they say is some generic BS about what the update is, I figure it's not important enough to install.
I've intercepted it from getting installed to the point where I'm ready to disable Windows Update all together. Thankfully I have it set up to manual mode.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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