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1 - It's an interesting comment.

Anybody want to guess when some sort of 'limit' is reached and BlogSphere won't be able to display all the comments?

Posted by Declan Lynch At 03:18:37 PM On 01/08/2007 | - Website - |

2 - Well Declan has already messed it up!!

The best TV show was Alias...

Well, I'll ask Declan's question:

What will the limit be for the number of comments?

Posted by Chris Whisonant At 03:35:04 PM On 01/08/2007 | - Website - |

3 - I've been watching this thing called "The Iraq War" on the CNN channel for a while now. It's pretty good drama, though a bit over the top. That guy they have playing the President clearly can't even read a script. Also, does anyone really believe a bunch of elected officials beholden to voters would be this stupid? Still, there's plenty of gunfire and explosions and a whole lot of angry people running around so of course it's great American television.

Posted by Andrew Pollack At 05:52:13 PM On 01/08/2007 | - Website - |

4 - So Andrew is your question "does anyone really believe a bunch of elected officials beholden to voters would be this stupid?"

Posted by Carl At 05:59:28 PM On 01/08/2007 | - Website - |

5 - Of course - but where will it end ?

---* Bill

Posted by Wild Bill At 07:38:48 PM On 01/08/2007 | - Website - |

6 - It will end when the sponsors won't pay for the commercials any more. Who are the sponsors?

Posted by Richard Schwartz At 11:24:09 PM On 01/08/2007 | - Website - |

7 - M*A*S*H best ever TV show.

Posted by Clay Goforth At 12:24:41 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

8 - With the new series starting next week, 24 currently gets my vote.

New question

"Favourite Movie???"

Posted by Graham Tucker At 02:30:12 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

9 - Favourite Movie - This is Spinal Tap

New Question

Who was your teenage pinup - eg. mine was Debbie Harry (when parallel lines was release first time arround)

Posted by Rupert At 05:17:02 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

10 - My teenage pinup was a 386. Such power! Such speed! It fair made me giddy...

Next question: You can change one thing about yourself. What is it?

Posted by Philip Storry At 08:33:31 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

11 - Suzi Quatro
The first female UK number 1 since Mary Hopkins.
She started the move to punk. I women in Leather never seen before mmm Leather. Sean stop now before the cyber police come for you.
OK next question.

How can I install DB2 for the sametime gateway after C58R4ML.exe and run
setup /i EN without getting the error message
"Please go to the Control Panel to install and configure system components.?

Or

What is the worst film you have ever seen?

Posted by Sean At 08:37:03 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

12 - Worst Film: Star Crash ( 1979 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/ ). Saw it while we were living in Dubai, UAE. Just horrible. Funny now, though....

Posted by Craig Wiseman At 09:04:59 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

13 - Worst Film: Star Crash ( 1979 <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/</a> ). Saw it while we were living in Dubai, UAE. Just horrible. Funny now, though....

Question: What is the capital of Assyria?

Posted by Craig Wiseman At 09:07:21 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

14 - Question: What is the capital of Assyria?

Posted by Craig Wiseman At 09:08:15 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

15 - "Ass-yr-ia" - cronic phobia of being caught between two 'backsides'.

(and for the favorite film ... most anything with barnstorming planes in it - though there are few of these)

Posted by Glen At 09:50:26 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

16 - worst film u me nd everyone we know!

favourite food?

Posted by bethany At 10:40:43 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

17 - worst film u me nd everyone we know!
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<br>favourite food?

Posted by bethany At 10:41:05 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

18 - Hey Carl, on your diet is the answer to this anything ?

Posted by Rupert At 11:58:45 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

19 - Favourite food? That's a toughy it's a close call between Sausages, mash and gravy and buffalo wings. I would have to say the sausages and mash. I just can't get the right sausages here, and missing it more makes it more of a favourite.

Next question: If you won the big prize in the lottery would you stay in your job?

Posted by Carl Tyler At 11:58:58 AM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

20 - If I hit the lottery (and thus was set for life) I would take time off to finish the farm and then would likely find some philanthropic to do ... or go dog trialing for a while

On my current project, management's favorite 'motivational phrase' to get people to document their work is .."what would we do if tomorrow you hit the lottery or got hit by a bus ?"

Posted by Glen At 01:46:21 PM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

21 - I feel this is a trick question cause eather way "you" arent there so i belive the answer is..... Then they have to come up with a new project

My question is if u use 2000$ on microsoft certification exams you become a MCSE or something, if u use the 2000$ on IBM exams where do you end up?

Posted by Svein-Erik At 03:50:36 PM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

22 - With a better job
Favorit beer?

Posted by Doffy At 03:54:33 PM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

23 - 'Kanon' by Grolsch.

Don't drink too much of it too fast.

Why are american houses constructed mainly using wood, wouldn't concrete be better? (especially with those hurricanes/tornadoes and what notP

Posted by Ninke Westra At 04:50:14 PM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

24 - This is just a guess, but I think it's got to primarily be that concrete (and steel) construction is not cost effective for single-family home construction.

Speaking of houses, how did the gang on Friends afford those large apartments (that's "flats" to you, Carl ) in what was clearly quite a fashionable section of New York?

Posted by Richard Schwartz At 05:23:02 PM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

25 - Home in the United States are manufactured from the most cost effective materials for the reagion as of about 150 years ago. Since that time, "tradition" has prevailed in maintaining geographic boundaries on manufactuing materials and architectural styles. As an example, homes in the north east are most often of wood construction. Wood was plentiful and local in the time before mass shipping capabilities of trains. Likewise, mud and related ingredients were previlent in the Virginia and North Carolina area. Brick homes are still common construction in the southern coastal regions with architecture to match.

Posted by Glen At 05:35:29 PM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

26 - favorite beer - Boone Kreik Lambic

(Boone Brewery, Fonteinstraat 65, Lembeerk, tel. (02) 356-6644, fax. 356-3399; tours are given from May through September on Wednesday afternoons or by appointment.)

Posted by Glen At 05:38:42 PM On 01/09/2007 | - Website - |

27 - Best TV show... Babylon 5.

Next question, what is your favourtite colour M&M?

Posted by Alan Lepofsky At 01:25:02 AM On 01/11/2007 | - Website - |

28 - "avourtite colour M&M?" - White

Posted by Glen At 10:01:47 AM On 01/11/2007 | - Website - |

29 - (forgot to ask a new question ...)

How old do you think Carl is ?

Posted by Glen At 10:34:14 AM On 01/11/2007 | - Website - |

30 - Best TV show: The Prisoner (followed then by, in order: Twin Peaks, Firefly, Carnivale, The Critic, Family Guy, Lost, Sports Night, Freaks and Geeks, and Rescue Me.) Alias is also a great show. I find 24 to be completely ridiculous.

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 02:31:43 PM On 01/12/2007 | - Website - |

31 - Carl's not old

Why is the banner blank on the LS Online site?

Posted by Jeffrey R Berg At 09:46:55 AM On 01/14/2007 | - Website - |

32 - BLACK ?! I just looked and it's pink !
http://www.ls2007online.net/wps/portal

So, new question, "what is the term for the non uniform shrinkage of lead in the old lead typesetting systems ?

(I thought I knew but my spelling is so bad, I could not google it to verify).

Posted by Glen At 10:00:42 AM On 01/14/2007 | - Website - |

33 - Wasn't referring to the color. Blank, as in no banner text.

Posted by Jeffrey R Berg At 12:20:48 PM On 01/14/2007 | - Website - |

34 - yeah - realized "blank" not "black" (but can't edit posts after the fact. It was pink when I visited it.

Anyone know the word/phrase I was looking for - "he term for the non uniform shrinkage of lead in the old lead typesetting systems" ?

Posted by Glen At 02:22:51 PM On 01/14/2007 | - Website - |

35 - For Glen - an answer and a question in one -

would that be "badness"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX

Posted by Maria Helm At 04:14:09 PM On 01/15/2007 | - Website - |

36 - I was thinking of a word that sounds something like "scrumtion" but I have no idea what german spelling might be. When converting from lead typesetters, the system created words and phrases as bars of lead. The typist would sit at a machine and type in the words and then press a button and the machine would create a short bar of those letters. (In grade school, there was a guy in town who had one of these old machines in his barn and he would host field trips from the grade 4 or 5 and at the end, he would type in each student's name, and give then their name in lead type.)
Anyway, when I worked on newspaper pre-press software, we had a german customer that insisted we add a flag that enables a one-dimentional scaling of about 0.92 in the 'X' dimension on our output. We came to discover the newspaper was taking advantage of that shrinkage factor to squeeze in more text in less space!

New question - when creating an avatar for SecondLife, how similar or different would you make it's appearnace from your physical self ?

Posted by Glen At 09:11:20 AM On 01/18/2007 | - Website - |