Forest BB

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You want smoothie on a burrito? The salsa should have chilli powder in it, and plenty of jalapeños.

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Duncan knows about the Old Bluey's disks.

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The Forest is based in Edinburgh and was founded by young American Ryan Van Winkle almost a decade ago.

But the freak, and his type, all for nothing
He misses a step and cuts his hand, but
Showing nothing, he swoops like a song
She cries "Where have all Papa's heroes gone?"

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In your dreams. You is just the J-Dawg's beard. He bats for the other team, isn't that right, boys?

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Erk. That will be me in a few years. For a guy who's big on usability, why does he have 3 button cuffs?

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Time to go Jakob Nielsen on these tumblweeds. Pages should only open by default in a new tab/window if they are needed while doing something on the page they were spawned from, e.g. instructions for filling in a form. The rest of the time, if people want a new tab/window, they can hold down Ctrl or ...

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Apart from an embarrassing moment when everybody could edit everyone else, I haven't been able to work out why. There seem to be several ways to set permissions for groups, and I can't have set them all everywhere.

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Don't worry - I can still edit your posts.

You don't have an edit button for 30 minutes after you posted a message? Does anyone else have this problem?

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Ca plane pour moi. The IE6 issue seems to have fixed itself too.

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Not often you get one over on Ling the Merciless. An alternative to the single pixel method is to have a transparent GIF for the logo and keep the pink CSS colour underneath. The attached image has dark corners and the Forest lettering in white and is transparent where the pink used to be. The advan...

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You want something like: #wrapper #sidebar #top { background: #fd595c url('background.png') repeat; ... } where 'background.png' is the attached file. I think you can have both a colour and an image. If, for any reason, the image doesn't load, then the colour will be used, or will be used first if t...

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What the dillio, homeslice? Back in the day, there were only 216 colours that you could be sure all browsers would display the same. 216 is 6 cubed, so for each channel (red, green, blue), there could only be 6 possible values (00, 33, 66, 99, CC, FF). Use them, and you're good to go, homey Joe. In ...

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In IE6, the pink right hand side bar gets shifted down to the bottom right of the page, according to one unfortunate IE6 user. But I don't have access to such an old browser, so I can't say what the CSS issue is exactly. And it is IE6. So it is more FYI than WTF.

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How much would it cost to hire Heinz Wolf for a day?

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I've set editing/deleting time to 30 minutes. Use it wisely.

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It would be vulnerable to a dictionary attack cubed. Mwahhhahha.

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She can get full size ones from this Flickr set.

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Here a couple of shots with my new wide angle lens.

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An artistic and static (but regularly changing) front page would be good. It would take the pressure off the dynamic content having to look fancy. All CMSs suck. I don't have a preference for either drupal or tumblr. If tumblr is simple, can't drupal be configured to be simple too? It would be a sha...

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Leave FaceBook. It is the only option.

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I believe I may speak with a certain amount of authority on the subject of nachos. With the grill on the middle shelf, the full plate of nachos should fit under and not burn. Putting the shelf too high, you can't get a decent serving, and too low and you end up with something that Desperate Dan woul...

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Following some links from BoingBoing, I found an album of awesome 70s funk from Benin, West Africa. The group, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, dish up haunting wahwahs, demented keyboards, frantic percussion and beautiful singing. Time to brush up on my Yoruba.

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Excellent (monochrome) issue of CIA nights. Who needs garish colours when you have factual hard-hitting investigative reportage? Reminds me of the Keith Lard incident.

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These are the prices for Zapatista coffee from Cafe Liberdad in Hamburg: The beans cost 63€ for 5 kilos (10 x 500g bags) P&P * 4 kg — 14,56 € * 8,5 kg — 17,78 € * 13 kg — 19,14 € * 17 kg — 21,11 € * 22 kg — 22,36 € * 27 kg — 24,34 € 20kg would cost 274€ or ~240GBP. Can the Edinburgh Zapatistas beat ...

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I can't make the meeting, but I'll see what I can find out about getting some Zapatista beans from our Hanseatic friends.

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The Hamburgers were tricky to pay, if I remember well. I had to grovel in German to them, after we hadn't coughed up for several months. But maybe things are more organised now, or they can take international orders more easily. From either supplier, I would be in favour of getting more Zapatista co...

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Who would the members of your gang be?

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I had the best nachos in a long time last night at the Golden Hour. I think there were 3 layers, each lovingly grilled, but not burned. A structural engineer couldn't have positioned the chips better than Donald, for maximum salsa potential and optimal melted cheese absorption. I initially thought t...

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Gong bashing. You got my vote.

Going going gong.

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This came in on the ForestSpeaks list. I don't know if you are interested in it: From: info@mattroberts.org.uk Subject: SALON VIDEO ART PRIZE - Open for applications SALON VIDEO ART PRIZE - Open for applications We are currently seeking submissions for the inaugural SALON VIDEO ART =20= PRIZE select...

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I notice the Salad Plate has changed name. What is DFW?

For the Falafal meal:

The sexxxy accident (who's your fava?)

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I've always wanted to go to Preston. One of the newest cities in Britain, but with a long history, Proud Preston boasts the National Football Museum, the birthplaces of the Arkwright mill and the Temperance movement, and the second largest bus station in Western Europe. Not that you would see it if ...

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I didn't see Martin last night, so there wan't much progress on the printer front. But I did manage to get redwood (the one working Linux box) to be the recipent of scans from the printer. I got the router to assign a fixed IP address to redwood - the same IP address as the printer tries to send sca...

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Coolio. For once it might all go according to plan.

Thanks.

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I'm not sure how DHCP is set up at the Forest. Do the Action Room boxes already get fixed IP addresses? If not, can one log into the device that runs the DHCP server and assign IP addresses to MAC addresses? I had imagined that one could get the individual computer to ask for the same IP address eve...

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Do the Action Room computers get a new IP address each time they boot up? It needs to be fixed for the scanner to scan to an IP address.

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I think the metal is there to stop the organic stuff getting in.

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I didn't get a great deal done, but I've figured out a few things: 2 boxes work OK - baoboa and redwood redwood's disk is almost full (97%). There is a 35gig folder on the desktop called 'forest films 2', and a Mac OSX image. oak thinks it is called willow and has a lot of disk errors willow has no ...

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I was going to say that someone had to say it. But I didn't have the balls.

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I hadn't seen Lynne's last line

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I think you would be free to volunteer any time. Give the cafe a ring between 10 and 7 to speak to a kitchen manager. They can tell you when the free shifts are. A shift is usually 3 or 5 hours long, between 10am and 11pm. There is a volunteer induction session, which runs every so often, which is a...

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This didn't happen. I couldn't find the network card, and the one in one of the old beige boxes under the desk was broken too.

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True - they changed the location, and it was all happening round the corner. Doh.

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I brought in a small P4 box and put Ubuntu on it. It is in the admin office and just needs a working network card. Graeme dropped on off, and it just needs to be put in. The user data from the old admin box can be copied over. I might get some of this done tonight, depending on how busy EMing is. Ot...

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This was the scene at 11 this morning. Even the pigs couldn't be arsed to turn up. Looks like capitalism will live another day.

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Back to 3am for closing. Adjust your wallets accordingly.

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Bring Your Own Chalk. Like Bring Your Own Booze, but less fun.

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info at THEforest dot org dot uk might work better. But the BB is a good place to ask questions.

Not that I can answer this one.

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I got trained last week. It is fun, free and useful. It showed me the importance of getting smashed responsibly.

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They don't make posters like that any more. My eyes are still fucked from looking at the double lady. Thanks, Alex.

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