I had faced the same problem Checking NVRAM and...hang...
after many attempts to troubleshoot...it was due to faulty CD ROM . I had removed it and now booting as per normal.
...Yet to replace new one, still running without CD ROM
So i guess it could be any of …

The Digital Economy Bill says that the government can cut off your internet access. Cutting off internet access to a household can never be justified, even if a person in the household has committed a crime that involved using the internet.

If someone commits a crime involving water, the government …

When Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse-Five writes that for the Tralfamadorians:

All moments, past, present and future always have existed, always will exist.

He's anticipating the ideas of Julian Barbour, who argues that time doesn't exist. That view seems to be part of Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe. The idea of the …

Hah, that's great!

My brother and I used to play Monopoly continually as children. Anticipating the banking crisis by several decades, we would borrow huge sums from the bank to spend on sub-prime mortgages. The sums were so large that we used the spare title deed card as a promissory note for a …

My cousin is training to be a hairdresser and I went along to the salon where he's working and he gave me a new hair style for practice. John Self, the protagonist of Martin Amis's Money called it 'having a rug-rethink'. Self is the ultimate consumer. At the time it …

Actually the haywire Smile episode wasn't as bad as I made out. They'd previously sent me a new card in the post and I just hadn't opened the envelope yet. I activated the new card and it worked fine. Thanks Smile!

I really like Paul Giamatti, I'd like to see Cold Souls. Great reviews of interesting films, thanks!

I was at Bath Farmers' Market and needed some cash to buy a tarte au citron. The Sainsbury's cash machine said, 'the card issuer has not authorized payment'. I rang my bank, Smile, and they said, 'the system has gone haywire! In the last hour and a half it started …

Cold Souls did indeed remind me of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Paul Giamatti makes anything watchable. He reminds me of Woody Allen. Brainy, introverted and whiny. Cold Souls is a gentle, enjoyable comedy.

Un Prophete is a gripping story of a man who enters prison as the lowest …