bob.dino

High - a pretty girl just texted me with some very interesting ideas on how to spend Saturday night . Low - My mate's in a coma after a BASE jump that went wrong.

You've been told how to proceed five times by four different people (including little ol' me). Off ya go! edit: You're not being told to keep quiet. You're being told to talk to someone senior at your DZ about it. There's a massive difference .

Chat to an instructor/DZO/S&TA. Basically, someone with more experience and authority than you. There aren't a hell of a lot of people I could give shit to and I've got 150 jumps. I'd talk to an instructor and let them have a quiet, friendly chat. You're not even off AFF, right? At best you'll get told to STFU. Your recourse, as I see it, is to bring it to the attention of someone with significantly more experience than you and let them make the judgement call.

11 jump program took 13 jumps. Stable poised exits from a Skyvan took me a while to get right .

eDirectory is lovely (and you get a 250k user licence for free!). And now they own SuSE and Ximian. They're a great engineering company with the worst Sales+Marketing team I've ever seen

If you want a fast efficient file/print/directory server that just doesn't fall over, Netware 4+ is a good choice. It's a shit choice as an application server. However, Novell have committed to making all their tools available on Linux, so you'll be able to buy Novell with a Netware or a Linux kernel. Which will rock.

Go have fun. If that doesn't work, contact Novell. As long as they're your licences () they shouldn't have any problems sending you replacement keys.

Who cares what your flying is like (as long as you're safe)? You're not going into a competition trying to turn 20 points in time - you're going to a boogie! You'll spend more time thinking up silly exits and drinking tequila and taking/starring in embarassing photos that'll end up posted here

I don't have mine in front of me at the moment, but it's something like "This helmet is designed to protect the wearer from weather and minor bumps and scratches. It provides no collision protection." The helmet itself is a thin plastic layer with minimal padding inside. It'd help if you hit your head on the door and maybe from a kick in freefall (though there's minimal face protection). Note: I've got one without the silly visor. They're reasonably common in Australia among low-time jumpers, though I've never seen one with the visor. Most people buy them through surf shops.

Unless he's taken a job at Airtec

"over the" is usually followed by "years". Methinks it's a typo

~$70, according to this site: http://www.safetyglassesusa.com/essgoggles.html

And just to clarify: though the Pro-Track is not a visual altimeter, it does log your last ten jumps. The Pro-Dytter provides no logging functionality.

Oi! Go study you lazy student! That said: 7 years older for me. Definitely noticeable. She wanted to settle down and buy a house. I wanted to jump out of airplanes. Guess what happened?

Ooo... nice. If only I could read Russian Any particular reason not to set the charset in the HTML so that the browser automatically picks up the character set? Stick the following in the element: Much more detail: http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset

And in compensation, to lighten things up, from the oeuvre of the incomparable Spike Milligan: A very rash young lady pig (They say she was a smasher) Suddenly ran Under a van Now she's a gammon rasher.

Now that's nice. I haven't read that since I was 17 (and in school ;-).

Quite dense I'm afraid: CLOUD-PUFFBALL, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs ' they throng; they glitter in marches. Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, ' wherever an elm arches, Shivelights and shadowtackle in long ' lashes lace, lance, and pair. Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ' ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare Of yestertempest’s creases; in pool and rut peel parches Squandering ooze to squeezed ' dough, crust, dust; stanches, starches Squadroned masks and manmarks ' treadmire toil there Footfretted in it. Million-fuelèd, ' nature’s bonfire burns on. But quench her bonniest, dearest ' to her, her clearest-selvèd spark Man, how fast his firedint, ' his mark on mind, is gone! Both are in an unfathomable, all is in an enormous dark Drowned. O pity and indig ' nation! Manshape, that shone Sheer off, disseveral, a star, ' death blots black out; nor mark Is any of him at all so stark But vastness blurs and time ' beats level. Enough! the Resurrection, A heart’s-clarion! Away grief’s gasping, ' joyless days, dejection. Across my foundering deck shone A beacon, an eternal beam. ' Flesh fade, and mortal trash Fall to the residuary worm; ' world’s wildfire, leave but ash: In a flash, at a trumpet crash, I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond. Gerard Manley Hopkins: "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection"

At least it's not just me that forgets stuff Attaboy the two of you. It's nice to have a lovely service like skydivingmovies.com available.

Just to reinforce what all the others have said: a freeflying mate of mine can now never jump camera after dumping in a track. He compressed a couple of vertebrae in his neck. Ironically, he makes camera helmets.

Not a bad idea at all. I'm just worried it might turn into an eBay style "AAAAA+++++++++++++!!!!!!!! TOP COACH!!!!!!" love-in with no useful information? Folk like me with low jump numbers aren't the best at judging just how good a coach someone is, as we've got little to compare them with...

I've knocked up a search addition for Firefox. It allows you to search the dropzone.com forums from within Firefox. Have a look and let me know if you like it or no: http://www.sundered.org/dropzone_search/ Sangiro: if you don't like it, I'll get rid of it. Tech Stuff The plugin just sends a GET request to dropzone.com. It identifies itself by setting a sourceid parameter to "Mozilla-search" so you can track usage. It's not a full implementation of the Apple Sherlock spec, as there's no handy way to identify the start and end of the results. Want more info? PM me, as I don't read my dz.com email.

Actually, while you're here: Bug Report 1- Obtain a link to a specific movie on the site. 2- Click the link. 3- If not logged in, you're presented with a login dialog. 4- Enter details and click login. 5- You're directed to the default page rather than that of the movie you clicked on. On occasion it's a right pain in the arse. Any chance of a fix mate?