Are you naturally rude, or is it something you worked hard to achieve? Wind your neck in! I'm as entitled as you are to voice an opinion here!! The whole point of internet forums are to promote debate, discussion, and opinion. Being rude is not the way to counter someone's point, no matter how relevant, or irrelevant you think it is!

Be honest - when was the last time you received good customer service, the type that would make you recommend a particular retailer to a friend, or family member?

LOL!!.. That's what happens when you have bananas for fingers, trying to type on a netbook, I suppose!!

In my defence, Your Honour - I wasn't writing my cv... honest!!

Never having bought any products from them, I couldn't comment on whether or not the standard (or lack thereof) of customer caare and product knowledge is a factor. Years ago, most retailer, irrespective of what they were selling, had a level of staff training and product knowledge that was "second to none" by today's standards. Nowadays, you either get the uninterested school-leaver or the kid with a university degree in techno-babble working to a "stack 'em high, knock 'em out" regime.

All-in-all, our educational standards have been allowed to fall so low, and things like this (directly or indirectly) are the result. Recently, our company advertised for a courier-driver. Now, it's not exactly a prerequisite to hold some sort of educational standard, such as an O level, but it would help immensely if they even knew how to use a spell-checker when compiling their CV's on a pc!

Women!!... What are they like, eh???

Boris Johnson and the entire Olympic committee haven't thought this event through at all!! Not only are photo enthusiasts (as opposed to "professional" (media) photographers) going to be severely hindered, I'm gonna have fun trying to plan out our collections and deliveries in Central London since at least 85% of our clientbase lies in the areas designated as official Olympic routes. None of our drivers will be able to park in the delivery bays that they can at any other time, and certain roads will be "persona non-grata" to courier traffic (unless you have a shiny brown van with UPS emblazoned on it!)

I'd have thought that allowing people "free rein" with a camera/camcorder would have been a good thing! God forbid it happening, but surely it would be of more use to the Met and/or security services (MI5) to have images of a suspected terrorist from potentially several sources, than "hope" that one "lucky" tourist captured the incriminating photo??

No doubt, we'll also have the "job-centre rejects" stopping people from taking photos because "it's against the law".. you know the one - the law that they know you have broken, but don't actually know what the actual Act of Parliament is called - they just know that the law exists, at least in their own befuddled singular braincell.

If you walk down Union Street, past the side entrance into Central Station, there's always a "street entertainer" there, and he only charges 10p for a cup of tea to watch him performing!!

Could be due to how the image is orientated, John. In landscape mode, the pic is probably unaffected across the width of the page, but on portrait mode, perhaps it is the sides of the photo being resized to 800px? That being the case, an image measuring 1024 x 768 should be unaffected in landscape mode, since 768 px is below the "trigger" threshold for the image. In portrait mode, the page width becomes 768px, so it would possibly be the 1024px that triggers the resize.

I hope this makes some kind of sense, since I've had a relatively sleepless night, and my brain's a bit befuddled atm!!

I think I may be correct in saying that it's not the image size itself that makes the image slow to load - it's the file size.

If I have a 1024 x 768 jpg weighing in at 4.5Mb, and takes perhaps 3 secs to load, then the same image size (1024 x 768 ) weighing 1.5Mb will (theoretically) load in only 1 second.

Keir - I'd go with John Riley's advice on this one! Isopropyl alcohol is the cleaning fluid of choice for getting rid of gunk on most electronics, as it is non-conductive (not that is matters in this instance), and evaporates without leaving a film of oil or some such. You may have to spend a couple of hours delicately mopping at it with a few wet and dry cotton buds (wet to soak the affected area - dry to mop it up, after allowing the alcohol to work on the mark), but if successful, I'm sure it will have been time well spent.