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Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen - an excerpt



If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est

Pro patria mori.


Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum Est, written during the First World War, was published posthumously in 1920. It brings vividly to life the desperate human misery of warfare, condemning and raging against the "lie" that war is noble. Owen served on the front line in the Manchester Regiment, suffering severe shell shock, and was killed in action on November 4 1918. His mother was informed of his death on Armistice Day, seven days later.

For the full poem go to http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html

Do you still have the Windows 7 installation DVD? If you do you can use that to boot the computer into startup repair. A good tutorial in respect of this process may be found at:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ss/windows-7-startup-repair.htm

Eric the Red will not be around for a few hours as he is watching the rerun of the wedding to see if Will has a change of heart  :tease:
So I guess that R-C will come post next.

GR@PH;<'S   :Hammys pint:

I did and he didn't, he decided to marry Catherine instead of me  :look:

Hammy will be along next

Grace,

Please locate the text file on your desktop and right click on it to bring up the context menu. From that menu click on "Properties". On the General tab you will see the file name;  left click and drag on the file name to highlight the entry and copy/paste the entire text string as it appears in "Properties" into your next reply here

Adobe have released details of a vulnerability that is currently being exploited and for which there is currently no fix:

This vulnerability (CVE-2011-0609) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in a Microsoft Excel (.xls) file delivered as an email attachment. At this time, Adobe is not aware of attacks targeting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe Reader X Protected Mode mitigations would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing.

Please refer to the advisory for full details

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-01.html

Highclere Castle?   Featured in Downton Abbey?   :cheers2:

By the way, R3D, you were correct, must be a fan of period drama  :thumbsup:

Is this one of those observation points over the Grand Canyon?

But of course, it's about time that you revisited my homeland. Now, can you narrow it down to a specific location?