Getting an Ultrabook after Xmas... Give me that Broadwell goodness!

The issue is a criminal repeatedly vandalised somebody's house. That person naturally put up a camera to catch the criminal in the act. Once the criminal was caught he's effectively claimed he had no right to be caught in the act.
It's complete madness.

The ECHR did not issue a decision on the legality of the video. All they have done is clarify the points of law that need to be balanced regarding the issue and passed it back to the Czech court to decide which aspects will take precedence.

Fcuking management

Why can't they just leave things alone? They've actually been sitting in our office the last few days cos our immediate boss was off. He's ready for screaming and jumping out the window as it is. How to make people paranoid in a few easy steps

Is there such a thing as a 3G booster for phones? As in enhancing a weak signal? It's infuriating in work...

you could try opening the windows, but not microsoft windows

You mean something like THIS?

Our wired access is locked down, so I need something that works with the native 3G signal.

That's a lot of money for a signal you'd have to pay for

I stopped smoking almost two years ago (28th Jan 2013), and decided to have a cigarette a few days ago. I always enjoyed smoking, and hoped that I could crack the habit and then just enjoy an occasional smoke once in a blue moon.

So, I bought ten Embassy and lit one up.

It was frikkin vile - so bad I binned it after a few drags.

There goes my dream of the occasional casual ciggie.

#gutted

That's great though, well done!

Also, my life insurance premium was very high because I was a smoker and I'm overweight.

What I didn't realise was that my employer automatically takes out a death in service policy that pays out four times my annual salary to my wife in the event of my untimely demise, during the time of my employment (though not limited to being at work at the time).

Not sure if this belongs in the tails of win or fail thread though. Win because I've cancelled my separate policy and saved a fair few quid, or fail because I've been paying out for the last four bloody years.

read your contract?
my employer pays 1x my salary here, previous employer also had a sliding scale oof payment for any limb or organ lost during service

Yeah, we've got death in service benefit where I work. It's on a flexible system so you can raise or lower it from the default of 4x salary by 1 multiple a year (with a corresponding charge or refund) which is very handy if you're trying to buy a house.

I haven't had a cigar since Feb 1st 2013 and this is the reason I can't have another one. As it stands, I've always got the option to have one if I want to, but if I did and it tasted horrible, cigars would be dead to me forever, and that would be very sad.

In other news, wow, these painkillers are really messing my head up. To use the norther vernacular "Feeling proper woozy, me."