I'm 47 and have much the same view. I don't recall what I type half as well as what I write.

Anyway, it's a mistake to think that everyone has access to keyboards at all times - and if you need to handwrite anything ever then you'll need to be adequately proficient.

What really matters, surely, is the diameter of the droplet. To collect enough sunlight to bring something to ignition temperature would take a fairly large area presented to the sun - I don't think that's likely with a droplet. Sometimes large droplets will form, pooled in waxy leaves, but they're not lenticular and won't focus the light into a spot.

Q: Have you ever wondered how the pyramids were built? The amount of labour involved, the organisation, the expense?

A: Whips.

Distinct lack of effort to show which is cause and which effect - without which the entire effort is an utter waste of time and space.

Whoever paid for it should be ashamed of allowing such flawed work to be done at their expense.

I gave up on inkjet printers. For Christmas the family bought me (and themselves, it's networked) a Samsung CLP-310N colour laser.

OK, it won't do great photo-quality prints - I use an online service for that - let someone else maintain tens of thousands worth of expensive kit for the few occasions I need photo quality. What it does do is never dry out and work at a moment's notice reliably even after weeks of idleness.

No more dried up cartridges for me.

A needle would have a fairly limite range of possible lengths and shapes. That would seem a much simpler problem than looking for the more generalised field of "threat" which I presume the final article is intended to detect.

Chocolate. Where's the edit button?

Better than choclate. Probably.

It took a couple of goes to read Apologetics Press right - I kept reading it as the far more aposite Apoplectics Press.

Inside every thin model is a fat one wondering why the chocolate supply dried up.

Sorry, I perhaps didn't translate sixth graders properly. I sort of assumed it was equivalent to our Year 6 who are have their 11th birthday that year.

I use Skype sometimes, but text only.

Does anyone else find it slows their computer down a lot? I'm not talking about something underpower, either.

I understand the Americans have also had a lot of trouble with salt corroding bridge structures.

One of my very first paid jobs was spending a long afternoon stenciling "DO NOT ENTER HOPPER WHILE AUGER IS IN MOTION" because someone had had their foot torn off after getting in to remove brick stuck in the screw. I guess they knew all about hoppers after that.

I'm sure lots of people will decry this, but homogeneity of education probably isn't a good thing. It's important to have a range of talents available across a population, but if everyone gets the same schooling sausage factory then all you get is sausages.

Ah - a while later and the pictures are back and I got 100%.