Comments on: Guardian Prize 25,406 / Brummie http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 19:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/#comment-168355 Eileen Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:47:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33477#comment-168355 Thanks again, muck. ;-)

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/#comment-168354 muck Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:28:54 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33477#comment-168354 Thanks, Eileen

I hadn’t noticed your link from CHROME to the operating system, which is just as relevant as the better-known browser. My IT skills aren’t wonderful either – I need to remember to include the http:// prefix which most browsers no longer require, but 15sqd apparently does.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/#comment-168353 Eileen Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:06:55 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33477#comment-168353 Thanks, muck.

I’ve said / implied [several times] that my IT knowledge is severely limited. :-) I’m afraid I just went for the first Google entry in each case that seemed to have any relation to computers. The CHROME link that I gave does, I find, give a link to the browser.

I’m very grateful to be able to put this one to bed now. Many thanks to all for the added enlightenment. :-)

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/#comment-168350 muck Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:34:50 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33477#comment-168350 Sorry for botched link @21, #22 works

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/#comment-168349 muck Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:32:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33477#comment-168349 Thanks Eileen
I hadn’t realised just how many of the answers were IT-related
5dn CHROME is a browser

]]> By: muck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/#comment-168348 muck Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:29:05 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33477#comment-168348 Thanks Eileen
I hadn’t realised just how many of the answers were IT-related
5dn CHROME is a browser

]]> By: PeeDee http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/#comment-168331 PeeDee Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:04:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33477#comment-168331 Thanks Eileen,

I missed the theme completely too, it looks like you were about the only one to actually spot it! Shame it upset you.

DELL seemed clearly better than YELL to me, so no problem about deciding which one to enter.

Well done to Brummie for the so obvious yet hard to spot theme. Is Brummie a master of disguise, or was it just chance?

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/#comment-168327 Bamberger Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:16:39 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33477#comment-168327 I usually do the FT puzzle on a Saturday but Araucaria in his Cinephile guise had come up with one of those themed puzzles that I can’t be bothered with so tried Brummie instead. Found this very enjoyable though like several others missed the theme entirely.

]]> By: Jan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/#comment-168303 Jan Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:30:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33477#comment-168303 Thanks, Eileen, and well done for researching the computing significance of the words.

As a mathematician who also taught computer science when dinosaurs ruled the earth I missed the theme entirely!!! I just plodded through.

Thanks also for the link to the article about Eric Schmidt’s lecture. Sadly, how right he is.

]]> By: Biggles A http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/27/guardian-prize-25406-brummie/#comment-168301 Biggles A Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:09:46 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=33477#comment-168301 Wolfie and Roger,

I hadn’t noticed until now but I had entered YELL too, for exactly the same reason as Wolfie has advanced. Maybe this serves as a partial excuse for overlooking the theme.

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