His Royal Dryness, The Duke of Cork

The quick answer is "no" and if you do use directory enquiries, you could be ringing fraudsters. Most people are familiar and wary of scammers cold calling and telling you they are from Microsoft or somewhere similar and offering to aid you in fixing your computer. We know that once they're on your PC, they'll try and take money from you for their "services", and also try to hack any banking or credit card details stored on the computer. This week, we've found that if you call 118118 and ask for Yahoo! (for instance if you're struggling to access your account) the number they give you could put you straight through to the fraudsters.   The above image is from 118118.com and is the same number given out by 118118 if you call. Yes, there are other Yahoo! numbers, and you may get one of them. However, we had a client who phoned 118118 to get the number for Yahoo!, then called the freephone number they gave him. Half an hour later, they'd remot...

Really enjoyed our trip to Corvara, Italy on the Sella Ronda, part of the Dolomiti SuperSki region.  I had been told about the horses that pull you along by tow rope instead of use a ski lift or drag lift.  I thought I'd share the video. I had thought that the horses were on part of the Sella Ronda, but they're actually after you ski down the Hidden Valley (Lagazuoi) and drag you for about 10 minutes to a "normal" ski drag lift up the hill before you ski back down into San Cassiano.

I thought I'd put some notes down about Verona airport, Italy, as you don't seem to be able to review airports on TripAdvisor.  Maybe if you have a choice, it might help you to decide. We flew there to go skiing.  On arrival, we were told that the bags might be a bit delayed coming through to the baggage carousel, which is fair enough. The signs said that our luggage would be on carousel 4.  Above carousel 4 our flight wasn't listed, but it was listed above carousel 3. We stuck with carousel 4 and one suitcase came off, so thought we were fine.  Then a rumour went round that some cases were coming off carousel 3.  I went to check it out and found another bag of ours.  Then one came off 4.  We were left with one bag to collect, so we kept going between the two. After about 45 minutes, there weren't many people left in the baggage area and our last bag was on a trolley they'd manually hauled in from the plane and dumped in the corner. < >...

With the advent of sites like BetFair, it's possible to be the bookmaker as well as placing bets.  Clearly, if you can place a bet at high odds, then lay the bet off at low odds, you cannot fail to make a profit*. It is rare for the BetFair Exchange to be at a level which would allow you to do this, and you also have to take into account the commission BetFair charge.  Also, the margins are usually tiny, if you actually stumble across such a glitch. So what can you do?  Well, most bookmakers will offer free bets.  Not only for new customers, but as frequent enticements to return to their site.  The offer may be bet £10 on Saturday, get a free £10 bet on Sunday.  Now, the odds are genuinely in your favour. Usually the qualifying bet must be placed on an event at longer odds than evens.  But consider this :- If you placed a £10 bet at evens with the bookmaker, you may be able to lay a bet off on BetFair at 2.1 decimal odds.  Let's say you to...

I have always found the Work Offline feature in Outlook extremely useful for a number of reasons. After recently upgrading to Office 2016, I could not find a way to start up in this offline mode, as it looks as if Microsoft has removed this functionality. After a bit of investigation, I found that the answer wasn't too painful, as long as you're familiar with macros. Just add the following into the Visual Basic code and you'll be fine.  Private Sub Application_Startup()   Dim objExplorer As Outlook.Explorer  Set objExplorer = ActiveExplorer   Dim oNS As NameSpace  Set oNS = Application.Session  If Not (oNS.ExchangeConnectionMode = olCachedOffline Or oNS.ExchangeConnectionMode = olOffline) Then   objExplorer.CommandBars.ExecuteMso ("ToggleOnline")   End If   End Sub

I've often wondered how people know it the bank account and sort code are correct.  Turns out they do a modulus check in the UK, as detailed on the VocaLink  website. I thought I'd write something to do the checking too. It can be found here :- UK Bank Account Modulus Checker

There seems to be no way to easily change the order of TabPages in a TabControl in C#. If there is a way to visually re-order them, then I can't find it. However, some sources seem to suggest that the only way to do it are to move the controls off the TabPage, put them somewhere safe, then delete and re-add the TabPage to the TabControl.  I don't like this approach, through - I don't want to delete anything. I think I found a way around this, but requires some careful editing of files. If your form is called MyForm, you should have 3 files in the solution's folder :- MyForm.cs MyForm.Designer.cs MyForm.resx Open MyForm.Designer.cs in NotePad (or similar) Locate the line where your TabPage is instantiated :- this.pagWantThisAsLast = new System.Windows.Forms.TabPage(); and move it below the other TabPage() items. The form will create them in that order.