Gwyn

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I learnt in a Mini. The day before my test someone else wrote it off. The instructor managed to get a brand new one for me to take my test in. It had no driving school stickers on it - just L plates. I was sure the examiner thought I was a spoiled brat who had been given a new Mini. Added to that the damn thing would not go into first gear so I had to drive off in 2nd.
After fifteen minutes I was back at the test centre, convinced I had failed. But I passed! My instructor hadn't even had time to order his cuppa when I walked in with my pass certificate .

All those hours driving with my dad and big brothers paid off.

Comment by Gwyn posted on Another pointless thread at 13/03/2011 - 20:33

Gwyn
It's a Fiat Punto Stefan. maybe you mean a Polo?

Here they all learn to drive in Beemers and Audis with the occasional Passat.

Comment by Gwyn posted on Another pointless thread at 13/03/2011 - 20:14

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Dangermouse wrote:


My favourite trick is getting it into supermarket parking spaces in one go. I generally walk past several people fiddling around and failing miserably to park far smaller vehicles on my way into the shop!
I don't get that. I can park my Kangoo in a supermarket (or any other car park space) in one go. I could park the massive old diesel no power steering Peugeot we used to have in a parking space in one go, even parallel parking the damn thing. I had muscles Arnie would have been proud of, driving that thing .
Either you can park or you can't. It's all part of how well you were trained as a learner.

Comment by Gwyn posted on Another pointless thread at 13/03/2011 - 09:34

Gwyn
I have a Jupio universal charger which will charge the LI90 (and the battery for the RZ10), and works as a car charger too.
Ansmann also have something similar I believe.

It is worth a shot at that price, if you are certain it will charge LI90s.

Comment by Gwyn posted on Unipal charger at 12/03/2011 - 20:50

Gwyn
PSE9 can't edit video unless you got Premiere Elements with it.
You could do a search for free video editing software that could do it, but I fear Steve is right and you would have to do it frame by frame.

Comment by Gwyn posted on Video Rotate at 12/03/2011 - 20:40

Gwyn
I use a grey card occasionally. I bought a set of grey, black and white credit card sized cards. They came with a lanyard too.

I got mine here, but there are plenty of them around.

Comment by Gwyn posted on White Balance. at 12/03/2011 - 16:10

Gwyn
greynolds999 wrote:
Gwyn wrote:

I had planned a nice meal (duck) for tomorrow evening
DUCK! Cannibal!


Two year olds find books quite tasty in my experience.

Comment by Gwyn posted on Another pointless thread at 12/03/2011 - 09:43

Gwyn
I use MSE on my netbook, having removed the "free" Norton which came with it. I have had absolutely no problems with it. If you remove the previous AV program correctly there should be no clashes. Obviously you cannot run two AV programs on one machine without they fight.

I use Avast on my PC, simply because it is on there and I can't be bothered to change again. I got rid of AVG from the PC because it was getting greedy and slowing things down way too much. Should Avast do the same then I will install MSE.

The PC runs Windows 7 HE, having run Vista before with no trouble. The Netbook has Windows 7 Lite or whatever the heck it's called.

Comment by Gwyn posted on Grindingly Slow Laptop! at 12/03/2011 - 09:42

Gwyn
I don't use a grip so a) it doesn't fit properly, b) it would be a pain for changing batteries and c) if I then add my QR plate my camera still doesn't stand flat.

Sorry Yvon, but I shall be giving it a miss.

Comment by Gwyn posted on rumor mill... at 12/03/2011 - 09:32

Gwyn
Due to be announced at 2pm PST = 10 pm GMT, in case anyone is still interested in the gizmo.

Comment by Gwyn posted on rumor mill... at 11/03/2011 - 20:23

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