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At first I thought it was the guy's blood on the bull's back - then I remembered how cruel bullfights really are.

No sympathy for the torero.

http://www.mountainbikecomponents.co.uk/contactus.asp

OP: Are you the kid form ages ago whose mum wouldn't let him have a fixed?

Actually, that is a good idea, horatio. I'd buy an ad for teh lulz.

Hmm, there seemed to have been an outage at my hosting company. All seems to be okay now.

RAL or GFTO!

Also posted in relevant rider down thread

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/may/10/cycling-police

Quotation:

                                                         **Family of cyclist in police car collision calls for witnesses**

                                                       Cyclist seriously  injured in collision with police car in Islington

                                                                                                                                                                           Donald MacLeod, a friend and former colleague of the bike blog  team (and many others at the Guardian) was [knocked  off his bike and seriously injured](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23818847-cyclist-critical-after-being-hit-by-police-car-on-way-to-shooting.do) while on his way home from work  on 24th March. He remains in intensive care at the Royal London Hospital  in Whitechapel.

He was hit at the junction Southgate Road and Northchurch Road in Islington by a police car that was responding to a shooting on a nearby council estate. The site of the collision is close to the Northgate pub.

The exact circumstances of the incident are not clear and Donald's wife is calling for witnesses to what happened. Please contact the family's solicitor Nigel Davison of Housemans Solicitors at nd@housemans.co.uk if you have any information.

We wish Donald a swift recovery.

How about asking the police men? Oh, sorry, they probably accidentally deleted the records of who drove the car that evening.

Cycle path signing in Germany is good but Switzerland's is absolutely fantastic. You literally have to only look onto the map only every few hours.

Are you going north or south of Lake Constance? I grew up in the area north of the lake. There will be lots of cyclists but most of them local day trippers. Not many roady types - they prefer the central Swiss mountains.

I cycled the other way last year. From Lake Geneva to Lake Constance and it was my favourite holiday so far.

Oh, how the general tone of threads has changed over the years.

Ordinary road bikes, plus a trailer, which we took turns on. Out of the 8 days of cycling we only had 3 days of proper climbing.

I have nothing I can sell but I cycled from Lake Geneva to Lake Constance. Switzerland has fantastically signposted bike routes - it puts everything else I've seen to shame. You'll love it.

Mechamorgan, DPF, don't ever go to places like Switzerland and Denmark. It's comedy lock fiesta over there.

It would be spectacularly bad taste to leave this lying around after a shoot.

I have been developing a new feature to the calculator: You can now add photos to a components detail page.

I have uploaded one photo already, which can be found here: http://lenni.info/edd/hub/270-goldtec-track-rear

I would like to ask you guys to beta-test the feature, too, and I'm keen to hear your feedback. What you would need to do:

• Go to the overview of all components
  
• Find the one you want to add a photo to
  
• Log in. You can use an OpenID, which means your Google/Yahoo/whatever account lets you login. You don't have to create a separate account on my site.
  
• Use the upload form (don't forget to add a caption)
  
  

At the moment the individual component pages are not very easily accessible from the actual calculator, since they really are meant to show up in Google search results and then divert the user to the main page. But once this feature has been tested a little more I will add a link form the results box in the main calculator, so more people will get to see it.

Things that will have to be improved:

• searching the components list
  
• better error handling if an upload doesn't work out
  
• maybe more explanation on OpenID (is it clear what it does?)
  
• ability to edit your profile name (at the moment it's a rather cryptic openiduser123)
  
  
  

Gi'us your feedback!

Two kids inside an old guy suit - they buy them from fancy dress shops near their estates you know.

One of the oldest tricks in the book.

Like this?

Pretend to be the wife of the former crown prince of Nigeria. Say that you're only 70 quid short of transfering millions out of Nigeria into the UK so that the current Nigerian government can't get hold of it. Insist on Western Union.

This isn't the answer you want but if you already met him in person why didn't you ask for cash there and then?

Jammy git, Lenni. :)

I just had to urban dictionary that.

I love Chris Morris but the film's trailer seems a teeny weeny bit slapstickish and not the really dry, acerbic wit I've fallen in love with. Is the film better than the trailer?

Look what fantastic bargain I made on German eBay: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270574064813&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_1070

€186!

Do you know HTML?

YouTube offers a HTML5 beta which is using the HTML5 element instead of the Flash player. You can activate the beta at http://www.youtube.com/html5. You need to be using a recent version of Firefox, Safari or Chrome.

Then go to the video page you want to download. Open the source HTML (Ctrl-U on Firefox) and go through the source code and find the element. It's even easier with Web Inspector or Firebug. The element's src attribute has the url of the video in it. You can download it with the browser by pasting it in the URL bar. Instead of downloading it your browser might display it. In that case do a right click and then something like "save video".

Caveat: The HTML5 player isn't activated for videos with ads in it.

I might write a little bookmarklet that does this on a button click.

I'm useless with formatting but I am trying to tidy up my programming style.

Is there a standardised formatting / good practice for local vs global variable naming i.e something simple like this:

Local

rider_weightL = 120

Global

mirror_angleG = pi/3

or is it best just to presume people will work out the scope and not bother with this, am I getting anal?

What language do you program in?

In JavaScript I use ALL_CAPS for global variables (I only have one, though), although in C++ and Java convention that is a constant.

To be honest, global variables open the door to a ton of bugs and if you're serious about improving your style, try to avoid them wherever possible. I know it sounds like a pain in the arse, but it's much better to pass variables around through function calls.

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I use washing up liquid.