Random Thought of the Day

Night? What is a 'paddling pool'?

I was just thinking about my childhood, when I was between four and ten. We used to go to our (summer) residence in Lower Austria during summer vacation and the pictures we have of that time paint a picture so different from what is happening these days.
There are lots of photos of my brother and I in the photoalbum I'm now looking at and I do not even remember them all. Just a few. It all seems so long ago now. And for now it is. Perhaps, in twenty years or so, ten years out of 40 won't seem so much anymore.

http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Tom/Pool1.jpg

but slightly bigger more like this one http://www.mookietoys.com/Products/i...pools/flip.jpg

Oh, I see. Thanks for the information. :)

Sometimes Mozilla Firefox really, really, really, really bothers me. When surfing around pages, sometimes a separate window appears stating Firefox must close 'due to an error;' it did this today before sending a very long e-mail.
To my brother who recommended that I get Mozilla Firefox, I smite thee!
Grrrr . . . :mad: :crash:

:D your welcome like I said good tyo be short or I wouldnt fit :lol:

ohh poor you Mono ....whats firefox??

Firefox is a browser just like Internet Explorer from Microsoft or Netscape. The speciality of this browser is that on the same view under different tabs you can open many web pages, instead of opening them seperately as is the case with IE. Also, there are options like continue from previous page or start fresh.

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Originally Posted by mono

Sometimes Mozilla Firefox really, really, really, really bothers me. When surfing around pages, sometimes a separate window appears stating Firefox must close 'due to an error;' it did this today before sending a very long e-mail.
To my brother who recommended that I get Mozilla Firefox, I smite thee!
Grrrr . . . :mad: :crash:

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What strange version of Firefox you have I do not know, but it must be broken. Firefox is far more stable than 'GASP!' Internet Crasher by Microdaft.

It's Lionel Richie and he says 'Hello' :eek:

Wow, that's weird, Mono. . . I love my Firefox. Sorry to hear you're having issues with it.

I hate being unable to look at certain threads and stories for fear of accidently coming across spoilers to "PotC 2". And I won't be able to watch it before the weekend. :(

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Originally Posted by Nightshade

You know what really really annoys me?
Its referance books or factual sources that are wrong.
Take wikkipedia for eg it says that costantinople fell to the Ottamans in 1453 when it didnt it well to the Abassyanns and then they lost it to the fatimyian and eventually it was lost to the ottamans at least 200 years later.
Why dont they check their facts :mad:

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Even though I am yet to encounter a problem with Wikipedia as a reliable source, I have often heard it from other people that it is not.

However, in this incident, I believe, they are correct, Night. The Ottomans did conquer Istanbul (Constantinople) in 1453. I am not sure when Abassyans and Fatimians were in Istanbul because it was in the hands of Byzantine Empire for almost a thousand years before the Ottoman capture:

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İstanbul is famous as one of the most often besieged cities in the world. Before the Turkish conquest its assailants included the Arabs (673–78, 717–18), the Bulgarians (813, 913), and the armies of the Fourth Crusade, which twice succeeded in taking the city (1203, 1204). After Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, the city became the capital of the Ottoman, or Turkish, Empire;

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http://www.historychannel.com/thcsea...ncyc_id=212969

If you search the net, you will come across many 'reliable' sources agreeing with History Channel's website as well.

Yeah, I noticed that too, having a bit of an interest in history, but I was too lazy to point it out, besides, I love the changes in history more than I like actual history.

hey.. i just thought i was sleeping in a room called the room of requirements.."rowling must have jinxed me" i repeated to myself

i am not asleep

Life is so strange that makes me feel strange which makes the world normal to me.

Have any of you ever used 'Google Earth?' My goodness, I love that program!
For those unfamiliar, 'Google Earth' you can find as a free download online, and use satellites in space to visualize any part of the earth from far to close distances (zooming in and out). Wow, I stand amazed! :nod: