Police in Liverpool last night announced the discovery of an arms cache of 200 semi-automatic rifles with 25,000 rounds of ammunition, 20 tonnes of heroin, £5 million in forged UK banknotes and...
I have just watched on an old VHS tape found in a drawer the most mesmorisingly awful film surely ever made; 'The Queen of outer space', 1958, starring Zsa Zsa Gabor. 'Three American astronauts are on...
I have recently bought a Toshiba laptop; Satellite Pro C660-2TQ in Germany and the installed user manual is in German (natch!) but I would like to have the English version, and can't find how to...
I'm coming to the UK soon and will bring my new Toshiba laptop and would like to watch some programmes on BBC iplayer. I don't want to watch live TV - and understand that this is anyway illegal...
If condensation trails from jet airliners are the product of water vapour entering a cold environment, why yesterday, planes travelling south towards Switzerland against a clear blue sky did not...
I have just returned from the canals of Burgundy, and one sunny morning saw on a long 5-arched stone bridge which crossed the canal and the River Yonne alongside it, a large flock of pigeons trying...
Every time I start up my computer I get a flag, bang in the centre of my desktop; 'FsUsbExService,Msg.' failed FsUsbExService, No existing FsUsbEx device. What does this mean please? I have tried...
I have bought today (here in Germany) a Panasonic TV, model TX-L-32 EW5 the manuals included are in German, Italian, French and Czech only. I have tried looking for an English version to download but...
Does religious intolerance stem from the teachings inherent within different teachings, or from the manipulation of those teachings by politicians and clerics?
The King James Bible was translated in 1611, the year of Shakespeare's 46th birthday. If in Psalm 46, we take the forty-sixth word from the beginning and the forty-sixth word from the end, we get...
The King James Bible was translated in 1611, the year of Shakespeare's 46th birthday. If in Psalm 46, we take the forty-sixth word from the beginning and the forty-sixth word from the end, we get...
Is Bradley Wiggins, of whom I am a great admirer (who wouldn't be!), right to call for the compulsory wearing of safety helmets for all cyclists, after the tragic death of a London cyclist?...
When I write a document in 'Word', I have the option 'Add symbol' for accents and umlauts etc. but I can't figure out how to do this when writing emails in Outlook Express, is this possible please?
Is it advisable to continue feeding birds throughout the Summer months? At the end of the winter season I bought a job-lot of bird food - nuts, fatballs and seeds etc. and have continued feeding them,...
The Anglican and Roman Catholic churches have been getting a rather bad press of late, at best confused, and at worst corrupt. Meanwhile atheism pursues its bloodless purity. The most determined...
If, in the middle of writing a post for AB, I look for a reference, say an online dictionary, or the source of a fact on Internet Explorer, whatever I have already written disappears and I am unable...
I'm thinking of buying a laptop to supplement my PC but I don't fancy using the little fiddly pad thing installed. Is using a mouse an option on all laptops and does anyone have any suggestions for a...
In his new book of this title (Hamish Hamilton), Alain de Botton writes that 'atheism should not hector people about the error of super-natural belief: this is "boring". The real task is to...