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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

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  • zagubov
    zagubov Posts: 17,939 Forumite
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    I saw the smiley and thought that you must have found an application that does backup your website direct from the host, but having followed your link I am now left rather puzzled.:(

    It takes you to the web applications index http://www.go2web20.net/ which is a portal site that contains links to all the web 2.0 sites that provide online services. e.g
    dropbox lets you store files online(like a virtual memory stick), spotify is like an online jukebox, and so on. There's hundreds of these sites there.

    Most of the sites do things I can't imagine or don't understand but I'd bet that if a website offered the service you're describing you'd find it listed there.
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • PasturesNew
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    edited 24 November 2011 at 7:14PM
    Item on the news about a food bank and low wages. They gave the following figures from the ONS:
    Average Weekly Pay in Torridge (Devon) £333 - Torridge is a region (all the middle bit), not a town.
    Average National Weekly Pay £501
    Average London Weekly Pay £981
  • PasturesNew
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    My site is a DotNetNuke CMS on an ASP host. I'm sure if I had time (1-2 days) I could work out how to download the backup (even if I didn't have somewhere to put it to). But those online services in the link I doubt would do any DNN stuff .... and, it's a heck of a security risk.

    My site appeared at about 12pm, the host (being American) decided early Thanksgiving would be a great migration time to minimise downtime.
  • tomterm8
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    It's a long time since I used to manage really big complicated sites, but there was a phase when I would hire an hour of engineer time a month, and get them to back up the site and post it on a disk.

    Cost a fortune, though.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • Generali
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    edited 24 November 2011 at 9:01PM
    Doozergirl wrote: »
    I love Simon's Cat. My favourite, it reminds me of our old cat:
    http://www.simonscat.com/Films/Cat-Man-Do/?sort=o

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bETCusT5kNM (SFW)
  • silvercar
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    The following phrase was quoted to me today:

    "Nothing succeeds like a parrot with no teeth"

    Didn't have a clue what it meant.

    Part spoiler (highlight to reveal): succeeds= sucks seeds

    But that doesn't explain what it means! Any ideas?
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  • Generali
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    silvercar wrote: »
    The following phrase was quoted to me today:

    "Nothing succeeds like a parrot with no teeth"

    Didn't have a clue what it meant.

    Part spoiler (highlight to reveal): succeeds= sucks seeds

    But that doesn't explain what it means! Any ideas?

    It's just a play on words.
  • zagubov
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    silvercar wrote: »
    The following phrase was quoted to me today:

    "Nothing succeeds like a parrot with no teeth"

    Didn't have a clue what it meant.

    Part spoiler (highlight to reveal): succeeds= sucks seeds

    But that doesn't explain what it means! Any ideas?
    Bit like
    "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"
    :)
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    edited 24 November 2011 at 10:28PM
    Hurricanes hardly ever happen in the Hebrides......

    http://news.stv.tv/scotland/highlands-islands/282089-warning-as-gale-force-winds-arrive-in-northern-scotland/

    http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/News/Caithness-braces-itself-for-hurricane-force-winds.htm
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • Doozergirl
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    well, i left in 1997, so i can't provide you with any useful information about what it's like now.

    Still, it's lovely to hear from someone who made it out the other side! :cool:

    Where is lostinrates? Has she gone away somewhere? I don't recall any announcement :indignant face:
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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