Linux v Windows
Windows Media Player is almost
unusable. It wants to delve into the depths of your hard drives, only
plays a limited range of formats, and is, generally, awful.
VLC is free, runs on Linux (most
importantly) and on Mac and Windows, too. It plays just about any
audio and video format out of the box and anything totally left-field
after you find the right codec.
The icons look like this, for the
standard player and the stream player:
Until Christmas, when the traffic cone
gets a hat:
I know it's only about six lines of code. Check the date, change the icon if... but that's Linux class and quality and care. A nice
touch. Why? Because they can.
Eating my words
I've looked. The best I could do was:
Amazon / Men's Jumpers, Novelty /
Christmas
5XL: ziltch.
4XL: just the one, grey and white (i.e.
tasteful, i.e. not really Christmassy) and £55. Fifty five quid for
a jumper that's going to be covered in gravy and red wine before the
Queen's Speech. That's about a tenner an hour before it's ruined.
Nothing over XXL on eBay, although I
did like the “Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal” and “Chillin'
With My Snowmies” sweatshirts.
In any case, jumpers need to be a bit
loose and roomy. In my case, these days (known as the 'biscuit' days,
as in “give me a biscuit and I'll top 20 stone days”; or, more
seasonally correct, “give me a mince pie and I'll top twenty
stone”) that means a minimum of 6XL, or mobilising a legion of
grannies with knitting needles and miles of yarn.
Maybe the apron's a better idea after
all.
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