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  #21  
Old January 12th 10, 07:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Heather[_3_]
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Posts: 58
Default UK from space, all snow covered

You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds
amazing.

Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which one to
put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet that prefer
it, I thought I would ask.

1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at some
point.
2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the shipping
(illegal?)
3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for *sale*, so
bought them years ago.

I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on here (MS
Office 2003)

Cheers.......Figgs

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
As Figgs says (or meant to say), Yum, yum!
--
Mike


Dai Artichoke-Lewis wrote:

I used to go to the supermarket across town on my 140 mph production
racer motorbike (back when that was *fast*) and bring home a couple
of shopping bags full of groceries on it. Then my girlfriend moved in
with me and she used to carry them on the back (which was so funny!).
Later I used backpacks. I still walk to the supermarket and carry a
backpack's worth home, for the exercise, but have been shopping
online off and on for close to a decade now.

However - as you might reasonably guess, what with my general posting
history - I am *very* particular. Probably about everything but
especially about food; and with the biker sensibility regarding being
ripped off. So basically if the food was crap I wouldn't be buying it
- and that applies to nutritional content as well as to more
traditional quality. http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp

Sainsbury's do annoy the hell out of me at times. Their site seems to
be maintained by someone who changes the layout every few weeks as
though we go there for entertainment and the point of the site is to
show how they 'get' IT. And some weeks ago they dropped Baked
In-Store Harvest Grain farmhouse loaves, though they are still
available in the actual stores! You'd think they were charged for the
site a rate dependent on the number of items on offer.

It's bloody well snowing again!

Probably tomorrow I'll make the linguini dish I got the wine for
(well, after the required 100ml, the rest is fair game for quaffing.
In fact I think I'll have a glass before I hit the sack). I've got
fan-tailed prawns from Thailand or Mussels from Chile (both from
Tesco, actually. Sainsbury's do the Chilean mussels too, but they're
half the price in Tesco. And they do a very nice Rustic Multigrain
baked in-store loaf). Not sure which to have. Or there's a spaghetti
dish with red-wine vinegar and spinach and chilli flakes and pine
nuts; won't be having that as didn't get any pine nuts. The linguini
uses half-fat creme fraiche, juice of half a lemon, fresh chives.
Both recipes use garlic (but just about everything I make contains
garlic). The spaghetti dish also uses shaved and grated parmesan, and
actually I have quite a lot of that to use up, so I'd better get to
the shops some time in the week and get the rest. That is a tasty wine!

An online grocery shopping tip for anyone who's interested. Order
deliveries for around mid-week. At the weekends the shoppers are
likely to be students or other relatively inexperienced types. It is
less important if you select 'no substitutes' (That is, if they don't
have what you want, they'll give you something similar. Now, if I
wanted something else I'd have ordered it in the first place. If they
don't have what I want I'll either do without or get what I do want,
elsewhere; though 99% of the time they have everything these days
anyway); but substitutes or not you're still more likely to get what
you want - such as a fresher bag of spuds, say, from a shopper who
does it every day.




  #22  
Old January 12th 10, 07:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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Posts: 2,047
Default UK from space, all snow covered

I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this box
in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and ran/run
without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I do have it
installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very occasionally
Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of the changes made
in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so if you're the same
install whichever version you think you will be most comfortable with.
--
Mike


Heather wrote:

You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds
amazing.

Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which
one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet
that prefer it, I thought I would ask.

1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at
some point.
2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the
shipping (illegal?)
3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for
*sale*, so bought them years ago.

I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on
here (MS Office 2003)


  #23  
Old January 12th 10, 08:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Heather[_3_]
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Posts: 58
Default UK from space, all snow covered

Thanks.....perhaps I will go with X3 the and maybe upgrade. I asked on two
different WP news groups which was better (that or 12) and NO ONE had the
decency to reply. Think I will post a decidedly sarcastic note, grin.

My version 8 came with WinME and I think it was an OEM one or a curtailed
one. And I seem to remember a very nice lad in the US at Corel who sent me
a full version, but damned if I know where that is.

Nice break in researching........I was trying to read pages in spanish and
failing miserably, lol. It seems that the Archives are in Sevilla and are
now available. I remember when they wouldn't let the LDS into the country
(heretics!!) to microfilm their records. Oops, for those not into
genealogy, LDS folks are the Mormons.

Cheers........off to find a peanut butter sandwich cuz Shane made me hungry.
(G)

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this
box in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and
ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I do
have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very
occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of
the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so if
you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most
comfortable with.
--
Mike


Heather wrote:

You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds
amazing.

Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which
one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet
that prefer it, I thought I would ask.

1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at
some point.
2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the
shipping (illegal?)
3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for
*sale*, so bought them years ago.

I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on
here (MS Office 2003)




  #24  
Old January 12th 10, 09:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Joan Archer[_4_]
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Posts: 81
Default UK from space, all snow covered

Didn't Corel take over PaintShop Pro ? I have version 7 of PaintShop Pro the
Anniversay Edition here but haven't got it on this machine in either Vista
or Windows 7.
I know I get regular emails from Serif with offers for their programs but as
I'm not into photo or video editing I don't see the point spending money on
such things.

I'm another one that hardly ever uses Word, I just use Excel, I have Home &
Student 2007 version which just comes with Excel, Word, Power Point and
OneNote.

The snow started again this afternoon but turned into rain, don't know what
it's going to do overnight the temperature at the moment is down to
freezing.

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher

"Heather" wrote in message
...
Thanks.....perhaps I will go with X3 the and maybe upgrade. I asked on
two different WP news groups which was better (that or 12) and NO ONE had
the decency to reply. Think I will post a decidedly sarcastic note, grin.

My version 8 came with WinME and I think it was an OEM one or a curtailed
one. And I seem to remember a very nice lad in the US at Corel who sent
me a full version, but damned if I know where that is.

Nice break in researching........I was trying to read pages in spanish and
failing miserably, lol. It seems that the Archives are in Sevilla and are
now available. I remember when they wouldn't let the LDS into the country
(heretics!!) to microfilm their records. Oops, for those not into
genealogy, LDS folks are the Mormons.

Cheers........off to find a peanut butter sandwich cuz Shane made me
hungry. (G)

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this
box in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and
ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I do
have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very
occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of
the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so if
you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most
comfortable with.
--
Mike


Heather wrote:

You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds
amazing.

Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which
one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet
that prefer it, I thought I would ask.

1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at
some point.
2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the
shipping (illegal?)
3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for
*sale*, so bought them years ago.

I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on
here (MS Office 2003)




  #25  
Old January 12th 10, 09:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Art[_3_]
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 3
Default UK from space, all snow covered



"Heather" wrote in message
...

"Dai Artichoke-Lewis" wrote in message
...

Probably tomorrow I'll make the linguini dish I got the wine for (well,
after the required 100ml, the rest is fair game for quaffing. In fact I
think I'll have a glass before I hit the sack). I've got fan-tailed
prawns
from Thailand or Mussels from Chile (both from Tesco, actually.
Sainsbury's
do the Chilean mussels too, but they're half the price in Tesco. And they
do
a very nice Rustic Multigrain baked in-store loaf). Not sure which to
have.
Or there's a spaghetti dish with red-wine vinegar and spinach and chilli
flakes and pine nuts; won't be having that as didn't get any pine nuts.
The
linguini uses half-fat creme fraiche, juice of half a lemon, fresh
chives.
Both recipes use garlic (but just about everything I make contains
garlic).
The spaghetti dish also uses shaved and grated parmesan, and actually I
have
quite a lot of that to use up, so I'd better get to the shops some time
in
the week and get the rest.

That is a tasty wine!

If you truly cook all of those things, I do have a spare room here. You
probably have Sir Michael (the gourmand) absolutely drooling!!


I may take you up on that, if you stay on line long enough for me to squeeze
down the phone line and through that transatlantic cable. Can Rosie come
too?

Shane

  #26  
Old January 12th 10, 10:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Heather[_3_]
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 58
Default UK from space, all snow covered


"Art" wrote in message
...


"Heather" wrote in message
...

"Dai Artichoke-Lewis" wrote in message
...

Probably tomorrow I'll make the linguini dish I got the wine for (well,
after the required 100ml, the rest is fair game for quaffing. In fact I
think I'll have a glass before I hit the sack). I've got fan-tailed
prawns
from Thailand or Mussels from Chile (both from Tesco, actually.
Sainsbury's
do the Chilean mussels too, but they're half the price in Tesco. And
they do
a very nice Rustic Multigrain baked in-store loaf). Not sure which to
have.
Or there's a spaghetti dish with red-wine vinegar and spinach and chilli
flakes and pine nuts; won't be having that as didn't get any pine nuts.
The
linguini uses half-fat creme fraiche, juice of half a lemon, fresh
chives.
Both recipes use garlic (but just about everything I make contains
garlic).
The spaghetti dish also uses shaved and grated parmesan, and actually I
have
quite a lot of that to use up, so I'd better get to the shops some time
in
the week and get the rest.

That is a tasty wine!

If you truly cook all of those things, I do have a spare room here. You
probably have Sir Michael (the gourmand) absolutely drooling!!


I may take you up on that, if you stay on line long enough for me to
squeeze down the phone line and through that transatlantic cable. Can
Rosie come too?

Does Rosie cook?? LOL. I wish, but I think she would have to be
quarantined for a while.

Lady Mary Elizabeth
Countess of Werewolfshire


  #27  
Old January 12th 10, 11:51 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Noel Paton[_3_]
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 229
Default UK from space, all snow covered

Since this threatens to be the longest thread in ME.general's history, I may
as well join in

I used to use PSP7 - but don't recall it being any sort of Anniversary
thingy? Nowadays, unless it needs something specific, Irfanview does the
lion's share of the work.

WP again - I used to use it back in the days of DOS.... maybe WP3 or 4??....
when Windows came out, I converted the few files I had to Word, and never
looked back (I was too busy runningg).

As for pasta.... The schedule here is for me to make a Bolognese on
Thursday - all welcome, if you can get here through the floods which will
(obviously) follow the thaw that's (so the weathermen say) coming
tomorrow/Thurs/Fri.
My only problem is where to get decent Pork mince - I like to use 1/2:1/2
pork/beef if I can - it improves the texture immensely. The rest is fairly
standard. If I was brave I'd have a go at making my own spaghetti - but
it'd cost a small fortune to buy the 'proper' equipment, and I can't be
bothered to do it the old-fashioned way

I suspect that I'm going to have to compromise on the wine to go with the
Bolognese - I'm the only one I know of the four scheduled to attend who
actually drinks red wine..... so getting a decent Chianti is out of the
question... Lidl may have something to offer when I go shopping tomorrow (
their Chateauneuf was very palatable - especially at 'only' £7 a pop!).
Perhaps a reasonable Rioja? It's likely to end up being either Lidl or
Tesco.... since 17th Dec I'm not allowed to drive as I was naughty, and got
my license confiscated for 12 months

Enough already!... I've made myself hungry again - and I only ate a couple
of hours ago!

--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Didn't Corel take over PaintShop Pro ? I have version 7 of PaintShop Pro
the Anniversay Edition here but haven't got it on this machine in either
Vista or Windows 7.
I know I get regular emails from Serif with offers for their programs but
as I'm not into photo or video editing I don't see the point spending
money on such things.

I'm another one that hardly ever uses Word, I just use Excel, I have Home
& Student 2007 version which just comes with Excel, Word, Power Point and
OneNote.

The snow started again this afternoon but turned into rain, don't know
what it's going to do overnight the temperature at the moment is down to
freezing.

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher

"Heather" wrote in message
...
Thanks.....perhaps I will go with X3 the and maybe upgrade. I asked on
two different WP news groups which was better (that or 12) and NO ONE had
the decency to reply. Think I will post a decidedly sarcastic note,
grin.

My version 8 came with WinME and I think it was an OEM one or a curtailed
one. And I seem to remember a very nice lad in the US at Corel who sent
me a full version, but damned if I know where that is.

Nice break in researching........I was trying to read pages in spanish
and failing miserably, lol. It seems that the Archives are in Sevilla
and are now available. I remember when they wouldn't let the LDS into
the country (heretics!!) to microfilm their records. Oops, for those not
into genealogy, LDS folks are the Mormons.

Cheers........off to find a peanut butter sandwich cuz Shane made me
hungry. (G)

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this
box in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and
ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I
do have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very
occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of
the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so
if you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most
comfortable with.
--
Mike


Heather wrote:

You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds
amazing.

Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which
one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet
that prefer it, I thought I would ask.

1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at
some point.
2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the
shipping (illegal?)
3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for
*sale*, so bought them years ago.

I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on
here (MS Office 2003)




  #28  
Old January 13th 10, 12:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
webster72n
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 1,526
Default UK from space, all snow covered



"Count Friedrich Von Artichoke-Artichoke XXIII"
wrote in message
...

Insanely revealing



What, you mean about the garlic?


Not really, it was aimed at the given details, but then that effort seemed
to be necessary for Figgs to get inspired.

My brother's brother.


Dai's brother

"webster72n" wrote in message
...


"Dai Artichoke-Lewis" wrote in message
...
I used to go to the supermarket across town on my 140 mph production
racer
motorbike (back when that was *fast*) and bring home a couple of
shopping
bags full of groceries on it. Then my girlfriend moved in with me and
she
used to carry them on the back (which was so funny!). Later I used
backpacks. I still walk to the supermarket and carry a backpack's worth
home, for the exercise, but have been shopping online off and on for
close
to a decade now.

However - as you might reasonably guess, what with my general posting
history - I am *very* particular. Probably about everything but
especially
about food; and with the biker sensibility regarding being ripped off.
So
basically if the food was crap I wouldn't be buying it - and that
applies
to
nutritional content as well as to more traditional quality.

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp

Sainsbury's do annoy the hell out of me at times. Their site seems to be
maintained by someone who changes the layout every few weeks as though
we
go
there for entertainment and the point of the site is to show how they
'get'
IT. And some weeks ago they dropped Baked In-Store Harvest Grain
farmhouse
loaves, though they are still available in the actual stores! You'd
think
they were charged for the site a rate dependent on the number of items
on
offer.

It's bloody well snowing again!

Probably tomorrow I'll make the linguini dish I got the wine for (well,
after the required 100ml, the rest is fair game for quaffing. In fact I
think I'll have a glass before I hit the sack). I've got fan-tailed
prawns
from Thailand or Mussels from Chile (both from Tesco, actually.
Sainsbury's
do the Chilean mussels too, but they're half the price in Tesco. And
they
do
a very nice Rustic Multigrain baked in-store loaf). Not sure which to
have.
Or there's a spaghetti dish with red-wine vinegar and spinach and chilli
flakes and pine nuts; won't be having that as didn't get any pine nuts.
The
linguini uses half-fat creme fraiche, juice of half a lemon, fresh
chives.
Both recipes use garlic (but just about everything I make contains
garlic).
The spaghetti dish also uses shaved and grated parmesan, and actually I
have
quite a lot of that to use up, so I'd better get to the shops some time
in
the week and get the rest.

That is a tasty wine!

An online grocery shopping tip for anyone who's interested. Order
deliveries
for around mid-week. At the weekends the shoppers are likely to be
students
or other relatively inexperienced types. It is less important if you
select
'no substitutes' (That is, if they don't have what you want, they'll
give
you something similar. Now, if I wanted something else I'd have ordered
it
in the first place. If they don't have what I want I'll either do
without
or
get what I do want, elsewhere; though 99% of the time they have
everything
these days anyway); but substitutes or not you're still more likely to
get
what you want - such as a fresher bag of spuds, say, from a shopper who
does
it every day.


Insanely revealing, but interesting all around, "Lewis".
To your health and your girlfriend's and your cat's.

Harry, aka 'Winnie the Poo'.




"webster72n" wrote in message
...
Interesting to hear (read) all these personal, yet otherwise public
stories.
Of course we could 'order' our groceries or any other items and have
them
delivered as well, here in the States or any other place, I presume.
Only personally I prefer to see what I am getting, most of the time.
Especially with the food being 'contaminated' with all kinds of
chemicals
as so-called preservatives or other deadly 'invaders' and to top it off
'eradiated', meaning they are nutritionally 'dead'.
Yet in your case, Joan, you don't have much of a choice, if any.
And that's a pity, I must say.
On the other hand you may have special protection and I certainly hope
so.
The best to You and All,

Harry.


"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
I like to see what I'm buying on certain things, which is why I do a
Friday top up shop but that's only for a few things and I have that
delivered g well it's a bit hard trying to carry shopping and use a
walking stick and all on a bus g

The big shop though, tins and frozen don't need to be specially picked
and the shopper always goes for the best date and you're told if it's
not
got such a good date as they'd like, you can send it back if you don't
want it and get your money refunded.

I would struggle here without electricity, the village doesn't have
mains
gas, I have to heat light and cook with electric, well the heating is
oil
but it needs the electric to make it work.
The only problem with using the fire is that it's only heating one
room,
all that mess for one room, and I'm mainly down the other end in my
office on the computer so wouldn't get any benefit g

Not sunny here today it's been snowing for most of it g
--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher

"Heather" wrote in message
...
How amazing!! You folks get your groceries delivered???? That is so
1950's to us. Mind you, I would be quite happy not to have to go out
in
minus 20C weather. We have piped in natural gas for the furnace, so
other than a major explosion somewhere, no problems for heat.

If the hydro (electricity) went down, we would have NO water, furnace
or
lights. Happened a few summers ago and we were 4 days without the
above. I think not having hydro was worse than water.........at least
I
could buy bottled stuff.

Oh, and can't use our fireplace because in 22 years we have never had
a
chimney sweep clean it out and won't use it until we do. 3 doors
down
had a fire in the walls caused by the creosote buildup and the idiots
didn't have any insurance. It is MANDATORY if one has a mortgage, so
not sure how they got around that one. As no one seems to be working
in
that family, I can only assume they are on Social Assistance (PC word
for welfare).

I could go online and order groceries to be delivered, but somehow
just
can't do it. I want to see what I am buying!!

Sunny, but cold here........Heather



  #29  
Old January 13th 10, 03:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Art[_3_]
External Usenet User
 
Posts: 3
Default UK from space, all snow covered

I only use PSP7 for adding text to pics. Otherwise, yes, Irfanview is the
beez whoopeez

As for pasta...and chianti...yes, Anthony Hopkins is Welsh, too, isn't he!
Presumably by 'pork' you're referring to long pig?

otoh I'd forgotten what a p1sshead you are! So I guess you are a jock after
all!

Thaw you say? I'm starting to think this is 1963 pt. 2. Not that I can
remember pt. 1.

Really the only red wine I've liked is the Roussillon - from the Cave and a
litre costing less than coke (a cola, of course. Though at one time I had
the use of the Swiss chalet of very wealthy French family friends - I
probably commented here about it at the time, 2003 iirc - and I was told I
could take a bottle from the wine cellar? I chose a Chianti. That was when I
formed the opinion that just because a bottle is decades old, doesn't make
it good!

I don't think I was meant to take such an old one but didn't look at the
date until it was on the table, and at that point 'ah, what the f...' seemed
the appropriate response).

Bleedin' Live Mail flagging 'litre' as mis-spelt!

Anyway, 'Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio' - £5 in Sainsbury's right now, £5.99
normally (so hardly discounted at all!), is a tasty dry-ish white! From
Tesco pre-Chrissy there was a decent Chilean Sauvignon Blanc iirc and
Banrock Reserve Chardonnay (?) both discounted for under a fiver and pretty
good! There's a lot of discounted Italian lately but I doubt I'll drink
Italian wine ever again.

Now, I'm sure I meant to insult you one more time...guess I'll have to post
again!



"Noel Paton" wrote in message
...
Since this threatens to be the longest thread in ME.general's history, I
may as well join in

I used to use PSP7 - but don't recall it being any sort of Anniversary
thingy? Nowadays, unless it needs something specific, Irfanview does the
lion's share of the work.

WP again - I used to use it back in the days of DOS.... maybe WP3 or
4??.... when Windows came out, I converted the few files I had to Word,
and never looked back (I was too busy runningg).

As for pasta.... The schedule here is for me to make a Bolognese on
Thursday - all welcome, if you can get here through the floods which will
(obviously) follow the thaw that's (so the weathermen say) coming
tomorrow/Thurs/Fri.
My only problem is where to get decent Pork mince - I like to use 1/2:1/2
pork/beef if I can - it improves the texture immensely. The rest is fairly
standard. If I was brave I'd have a go at making my own spaghetti - but
it'd cost a small fortune to buy the 'proper' equipment, and I can't be
bothered to do it the old-fashioned way

I suspect that I'm going to have to compromise on the wine to go with the
Bolognese - I'm the only one I know of the four scheduled to attend who
actually drinks red wine..... so getting a decent Chianti is out of the
question... Lidl may have something to offer when I go shopping tomorrow
( their Chateauneuf was very palatable - especially at 'only' £7 a pop!).
Perhaps a reasonable Rioja? It's likely to end up being either Lidl or
Tesco.... since 17th Dec I'm not allowed to drive as I was naughty, and
got my license confiscated for 12 months

Enough already!... I've made myself hungry again - and I only ate a
couple of hours ago!

--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Didn't Corel take over PaintShop Pro ? I have version 7 of PaintShop Pro
the Anniversay Edition here but haven't got it on this machine in either
Vista or Windows 7.
I know I get regular emails from Serif with offers for their programs but
as I'm not into photo or video editing I don't see the point spending
money on such things.

I'm another one that hardly ever uses Word, I just use Excel, I have Home
& Student 2007 version which just comes with Excel, Word, Power Point and
OneNote.

The snow started again this afternoon but turned into rain, don't know
what it's going to do overnight the temperature at the moment is down to
freezing.

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher

"Heather" wrote in message
...
Thanks.....perhaps I will go with X3 the and maybe upgrade. I asked on
two different WP news groups which was better (that or 12) and NO ONE
had the decency to reply. Think I will post a decidedly sarcastic note,
grin.

My version 8 came with WinME and I think it was an OEM one or a
curtailed one. And I seem to remember a very nice lad in the US at
Corel who sent me a full version, but damned if I know where that is.

Nice break in researching........I was trying to read pages in spanish
and failing miserably, lol. It seems that the Archives are in Sevilla
and are now available. I remember when they wouldn't let the LDS into
the country (heretics!!) to microfilm their records. Oops, for those
not into genealogy, LDS folks are the Mormons.

Cheers........off to find a peanut butter sandwich cuz Shane made me
hungry. (G)

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this
box in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and
ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I
do have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very
occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of
the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so
if you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most
comfortable with.
--
Mike


Heather wrote:

You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds
amazing.

Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which
one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet
that prefer it, I thought I would ask.

1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at
some point.
2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the
shipping (illegal?)
3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for
*sale*, so bought them years ago.

I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on
here (MS Office 2003)




  #30  
Old January 13th 10, 05:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Joan Archer[_4_]
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Posts: 81
Default UK from space, all snow covered

The one I bought was called the 10th Anniversary Edition it came with the
book Paint Shop Pro 7 & Animation Shop 3 Getting Started Guide and a really
thick book Reference Guide both printed in 2001 but I think it said that the
year 2000 was the 10th Anniversary of the program, blimey where's the time
gone g


--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
...
Since this threatens to be the longest thread in ME.general's history, I
may as well join in

I used to use PSP7 - but don't recall it being any sort of Anniversary
thingy? Nowadays, unless it needs something specific, Irfanview does the
lion's share of the work.

WP again - I used to use it back in the days of DOS.... maybe WP3 or
4??.... when Windows came out, I converted the few files I had to Word,
and never looked back (I was too busy runningg).

As for pasta.... The schedule here is for me to make a Bolognese on
Thursday - all welcome, if you can get here through the floods which will
(obviously) follow the thaw that's (so the weathermen say) coming
tomorrow/Thurs/Fri.
My only problem is where to get decent Pork mince - I like to use 1/2:1/2
pork/beef if I can - it improves the texture immensely. The rest is fairly
standard. If I was brave I'd have a go at making my own spaghetti - but
it'd cost a small fortune to buy the 'proper' equipment, and I can't be
bothered to do it the old-fashioned way

I suspect that I'm going to have to compromise on the wine to go with the
Bolognese - I'm the only one I know of the four scheduled to attend who
actually drinks red wine..... so getting a decent Chianti is out of the
question... Lidl may have something to offer when I go shopping tomorrow
( their Chateauneuf was very palatable - especially at 'only' £7 a pop!).
Perhaps a reasonable Rioja? It's likely to end up being either Lidl or
Tesco.... since 17th Dec I'm not allowed to drive as I was naughty, and
got my license confiscated for 12 months

Enough already!... I've made myself hungry again - and I only ate a
couple of hours ago!

--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Didn't Corel take over PaintShop Pro ? I have version 7 of PaintShop Pro
the Anniversay Edition here but haven't got it on this machine in either
Vista or Windows 7.
I know I get regular emails from Serif with offers for their programs but
as I'm not into photo or video editing I don't see the point spending
money on such things.

I'm another one that hardly ever uses Word, I just use Excel, I have Home
& Student 2007 version which just comes with Excel, Word, Power Point and
OneNote.

The snow started again this afternoon but turned into rain, don't know
what it's going to do overnight the temperature at the moment is down to
freezing.

--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher

"Heather" wrote in message
...
Thanks.....perhaps I will go with X3 the and maybe upgrade. I asked on
two different WP news groups which was better (that or 12) and NO ONE
had the decency to reply. Think I will post a decidedly sarcastic note,
grin.

My version 8 came with WinME and I think it was an OEM one or a
curtailed one. And I seem to remember a very nice lad in the US at
Corel who sent me a full version, but damned if I know where that is.

Nice break in researching........I was trying to read pages in spanish
and failing miserably, lol. It seems that the Archives are in Sevilla
and are now available. I remember when they wouldn't let the LDS into
the country (heretics!!) to microfilm their records. Oops, for those
not into genealogy, LDS folks are the Mormons.

Cheers........off to find a peanut butter sandwich cuz Shane made me
hungry. (G)

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
I've got WordPerfect X4 installed here. I installed and ran X3 on this
box in April 06 and updated to X4 in November 08. Both installed and
ran/run without problem. Like yourself I don't use MS Word although I
do have it installed as I make a fair bit of use of Excel and very
occasionally Publisher. To be honest I make virtually no use of any of
the changes made in recent versions, the same being true of Office, so
if you're the same install whichever version you think you will be most
comfortable with.
--
Mike


Heather wrote:

You betcha!! Shall we meet at his place in say, two weeks?? Sounds
amazing.

Hey, btw........I have 3 Wordperfect cd's here and am wondering which
one to put on. As you and I seem to be the only two people on Usenet
that prefer it, I thought I would ask.

1. Really old Version 8 which I think was *topped up* by Corel at
some point.
2. An OEM version of Office 12 which I got for free, just pay the
shipping (illegal?)
3. Ditto for X3 and ditto again. MDG was advertising them for
*sale*, so bought them years ago.

I don't use it much, but prefer it over MS Word which I do have on
here (MS Office 2003)




 




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