1) Emergency number

The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112.

If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there
is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing
network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly...this
number112 can be dialed even while the keypad is locked.
Try it out.

2) Locked the keys in the car? Your car has remote keys?

This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you
happen to lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home, call
someone on your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car
door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button, holding
it near the phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from
having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object.! You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can
reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can
unlock the doors (or the trunk).


3) Hidden Battery power

Imagine your cell battery is very low, u r expecting an important call and u
don't have a charger. A Nokia phonr comes with a reserve
battery. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this
reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery.
This reserve will get charged when u charge your cell next time.

It's a fantastic & fascinating thread, & I'm proud that it's on blonde, & I hope it runs for a goodly while yet.

But it IS an emotive subject, & so please remember to keep it cool!

I confess to a great interest in this subject, alhough I am not at all sure what is right & wrong, & we can never get a definitive answer.

Anyone who has read Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" would be pretty much ashamed at the havoc that Man has wreaked on the animal, bird & plant population during the last century. Earth has existed for x billion years, but in just 100 years, "civilised" Man has destroyed more than one can possibly imagine.

It's a very sad thing. But I really don't now what's right & wrong here, & nor, I suspect, does anyone else.

If Man had left Nature alone in the first place, there would be no need for conservation! What a dilemma.

and if we keep ignoring the cause and effects of global warming all of this will become a moot point!

At least Arsenal finished off the season with the double - the womens FA Cup and womens league!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At this stage, while you still have some fold equity, you have to push all in and wish for the best.

Well done wormster, Poker 425 is an unwelcome interuption in my computer horse racing play. I have 5 TV's in my living room now so that I can multi-horse race and I'm thinking about going pro soon. Could you set up a forum for us horseites at all?

Cheers

To be honest Byron you have to look at it this way, Poker425 costs money, it doesnt make money. The TV horseracing generates income for William Hill. A 1 hour show with the costs of sending two/three people to the venues, get the footage cut and then two presenters to front the show AND the loss of revenue to the channel from no turnover on the racing during the broadcast is not a small amount. It is in fact a below average yearly wage each week that William Hill 'lose' when they are added together.

My view of the horseracing is probably the same as yours and im not looking to express that here but you honestly wouldnt believe the turnover on each race.

As far as I know this has nothing to do with the decision to go to 30 mins from an hour but when we were first trying to get the show off the ground it was a seen as a potential problem that the revenue would be hit. The barb ratings grew nicely and the show was well received which took away these concerns as it has a value that cannot be measured in monetary terms.

I think the show is very popular and I find the 30 minute show 'snappier' than the 60 min show but I would watch a two hour show because I am a follower of poker. That wouldnt appeal to everyone so maybe 45 mins would be pefect.

Wow - so people really do bet on those cartoon horses?

I use GT+ and it is very easy to install and works well with Pokertracker.

Any song from Abbey Road - what an album!

I sit in my reclining chair with a 17 inch WUXGA notebook and the TV on in the background.

I was on a train home yesterday. It was a GNER jobby with WiFi internet access. I fancied logging on for half an hour so used my debit card to pay for the service. (three buckeroonies)

Wasn't too keen on entering my debit card 16 digit number, start date, expiry date, CVV number and home address with some dodgy dude siting next to me, so I did it in the lav.

Got some dodgy looks walking into the lav with my laptop. Wasn't until I came out that I realised it may have been a poor plan.

Not to worry, I have no shame. Having an entire railway carriage think that you just peeled one off in the bog is a small price to pay for piece of mind.

lol    this made me laugh

Me too!  Thanks for providing us with a good start to the day.

This may be a strange comment but it is something I say each time I happen upon watching a reality TV show, why would anybody want to live in a fishbowl for 6 weeks and give up all private time?

Hmmmm, I guess everyone will keep their sunglasses on when inside the house?

I came across this blog report on Tiffany Williams at last years Main event which I found very amusing:

http://wickedchopspoker.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/11/tiffany_william.html

I find Laddies has more of these type of players than other sites and the bad beats also drive me bonkers!!!!!!!

Still cant understand why walcott was picked over sheringham

also this video shows how good walcott is

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/56388/theo_walcott/

The video doesnt work.

It worked on my computer and it makes him look pretty special.

So what are the odds on Walcott being top scorer at the world cup?