The newsletter has
strangely not arrived as yet. It was written before noon and said:
"Hello,
Thanks to the Eurovision Song Contest, I am five pounds richer today. Well four if you count the stake money. Anyway, as I detail on the Blog, I'm looking for ideas on what to do with the cash. All ideas welcome at www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm.
Our man Andrew Bomford is travelling with the Prime Minister today. No, really. And when he's not on a noisy helicopter, we're hoping Mr Blair will take a question about children with special educational needs, which you'll know has been a topic of great discussion on the air and on the Blog. Let's see what happens.
We'll look too at "costly" cancer treatments..West Ham..Panorama on YouTube...and our business guru Nils Blythe is in the middle of the North Sea. Covered in lard for all I know.
See you on the ice at five.
Now in new stronger menthol.
Gordon Muir"
As it happens, we are thinking of changing to that new method of sending the newsletter that we toyed with and discarded. It would be more reliable and allow us to send more than plain text. The downside is there would be a re-registering process, which, lets face it, we could all do without.
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I'd be happy to re-register for a new, improved version of the newsletter....especially if it was going to be illustrated!
I've had an Idea....if we're able to get pictures in the newsletter, could you please include dod-to-dot puzzles, to give us yet another distraction from our chores? You could make them in the form of sketches of the guests or presenters! ;o)
I don't see it as too much of a burden to re-register, as long as it doesn't take hours to do :-)
Well, at least somebody gained something form the ESC, well done our Ed!
I'm sure you can think of something to spend the cash on... the BeachFroggers could probably use a bottle of something nice.
:O)
If we reregister, will we have three voting sheets as well? Will they be coloured? Will we spoil them? Can we register a no-vote? And will there be transferable voting?
Reregister? For that daily dose of delight?? No probs with that!
I will have to re-register anyway as I am leaving here in 3 weeks so will have to get sent to my home e-mail address, so I don't mind at all
Eddie, re re-register (or is that rah rah re re-register).....where do I sign and do you need my PIN?
....plain text so 20th century don't you think...
Fiona @ 6
re going away in 3 weeks....anywhere nice?
What to do with the cash? S'easy, Eric, re-invest the stake money on another silly bet. With the pound left over, download the song you backed from that well-known provider of mp3 music. (Or better still, a track from T. Bennett)
Re-register? Fine by me
You're going to be able to send more than plain text? Oh goody! What then? Flowers? Grapes for the poorly ones? Chocolates for the chocoholics? Wine for the thirsty ones? That £5 won't go far at this rate. But how kind of you to think of us.
I would say re-register. You could spend your hard earned four quid to employ someone or purchase a programme to process all the re-applications.
Have you any idea how many people currently subscribe to the newsletter?
Regards
John
Or you could buy about 4 seconds' worth of cancer treatment.
Boo! Being downbeat. But just how much is human life worth? In £p?
I would say it's priceless. Bu then I'm not a politician or a member of NICE.
You could even include a Sudoku - another way of wasting time :)
As an extra challenge, perhaps once a week replace the numbers 1-9 with letters or codes cryptically linked to the week's stories.
e.g. T G D M C P E S Q (Tony, Gordon, Dave, Michael [Meacher], [Menzies] Campbell, PM, Eric, Sequin, [Any] Questions)
M could also stand for [John] Major, and C for Cricket (since it's the book of the week, and Front Row are interviewing him on it)...
Advantage of Plain TExt is its simple. Disadvantage appears it does not work reliably.
And I am a great believer in keeping things simple.
My NHS trust e mails me on occasion. And they now insist on having that pretty blue NHS logo on everything. So a 50k word doc becomes 4Meg. All nice and dandy if you have a nice fast NHS network connection or your own broadband but I somethimes access from dial up and even via mobile phones. Plain text is then nice.
I really don't think re-registering would be a hassle, but I thought you'd already asked about that some time ago?