Hi,

It’s been a long time since the 2010/11 football season finished. No football for 3 months, with exception to the Womens World Cup, unlucky girls.

With the 2011/12 season almost upon us we thought we’d set-up a Fantasy League for our users. It’s just a bit of fun.

If you’d like to join in, simply:

• Sign-up with fantasy.premierleague.com.
• Click the LEAGUES tab.
• Click Join a league.
• Select Private League.
• When prompted enter the code 176362-55928
• Click JOIN PRIVATE LEAGUE.

Hope to see you there!

Kind regards,

Team TP.

I treat myself to one of these (think this is a later model, but pretty much the same telly) a few months back to replace my ageing CRT which was on it's last legs.  Anyway it came with a plethora of connections, 3 HDMIs, couple of SCARTs, but no SVIDEO :(.  It did however have a PC IN connection, which is basically a VGA input. Always had it in my head that SVIDEO would be best, but fortunately it turns out that VGA is better (not as good as HDMI, but sadly my laptop doesn't have one). Anyway got myself a cheap VGA cable from Argos and connected it up, brought up the display settings, and extended the desktop ... and saw a very small section of my desktop on the telly :(

I tried faffing with the telly settings, repositioning the screen, etc and didn't get anywhere.  In fact I went backwards as I ended up with just a blank screen.  Not to be out done I did what everyone with a problem does these days and asked Google :).  Initial hit looked promising but in the end was telling me to do what I was already doing :(! So to get the punchline I had a bit of inspiration and thought perhaps the graphics driver was interferring, so popped up Start > Control Panel > Additional Options > NVIDIA Control Panel, changed the source on the telly to PC and job's a good 'un :).

Of course being VGA only the picture goes to the telly, so for the sound a twin phono to 3.5mm stereo jack from Maplin should do the trick :) Hope this helps someone else out.

I was on hols in Spain this year (nice, except for the 26 hours coach trip :(, but that's another story) and quite fancied getting a lilo (those little inflatable things you lie on in the sea ... not last in last out for any nerds reading :)). Thing is our hotel was a good 20 minute walk from the sea and I really didn't fancy carrying the bloomin' thing for that amount of time (though many of the residents did ... mad!), particulary as I had a rucksack full of techie books to carry that I had no intention of reading ... Anyway, got me thinking ... consider.

1. There's loads of shops selling lilos near the beach.
2. There's loads of lazy people like me who can't be bothered carrying them to the beach and back.
3. If you buy one at the start of the week, are you really going to carry it back home ... nope you're gonna dump it somewhere you naughty boy/girl.

Now here's the thing.  A lilo was costing about €5, so I figure if you own a shop by the sea, let me rent a lilo for one euro with a €5 deposit, if I burst it you've got the deposit (i.e. you've made your sale) and you only have to rent it out 5 times before you've made the equivalent of a sale.  I don't have to carry the thing around, you don't have to go to the wholesaler as often to stock up, less lilos need to be produced so the environment is better off. Job's a good 'un. Hope you enjoyed my first post ... hopefully next time it will actually be about www.toepoke.co.uk