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Most unexpected, as a neutral, I expected England to win, maybe 2-1 or 3-1.
Australia didn't strike me as a particular strong unit, getting thrashed in India 4-0 just months before and all that - I guess England were just pathetic 
Do you know home teams lost just 2 tests in all of 2013? (Yes, test matches, not series.)
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: just 2 tests in all of 2013
Indeed. It looks like there is this strange phenomenon going around. Last year, I guess things were only slightly better (though I don't have any statistics behind this statement). Away teams don't perform well.
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England imploded.
They look unbeatable a few months ago.
As an example, Matt Prior did tremendously well in June.
In a few months, he had to be dropped!
Haddin did badly in England. Few months later, he was a hero.
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There was me thinking you meant this[^]
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Yep - that's what I first thought of too. The wife is not happy!
However in other news Ha'way the Heed[^]
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Woo hoo!
No doubt a great result and probably Michael Clarke's salvation but it was a particularly boring series. Please don't sent the girl's team next time.
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_Josh_ wrote: Please don't sent the girl's team next time.
To be honest, the girl's XI would have played better than the "girls" that did go.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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thats unfair they did wonderful, the only problem is that had to keep stopping to play cricket, but that didnt take too long out of thier holiday
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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"Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought." [1] [^].
My favorite character in Star Wars is that debonair mound of quivering flesh, Jabba Desilijic Tiure, the Hut, but, of course, a lot of his charm was his tender relationship with his adorable pet sidekick Kowakian monkey-lizard, Salacious B. Crumb [^].
[1] John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
“There are obvious things, and there are many obvious things no one tried, because no one needed to try them.” Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov, January 1, 2014
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BillWoodruff wrote: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
What's a Grecian Urn?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Grecian Urn is how one feels listening to Nana Mouskouri, or eating feta cheese, or dreaming of the Aphrodite of Milos (aka Venus de Milo).
“There are obvious things, and there are many obvious things no one tried, because no one needed to try them.” Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov, January 1, 2014
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BillWoodruff wrote: listening to Nana Mouskouri
You need to get out of the house more often. 
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Okay, Khun James, rao len duay dai, Khrup: what is the connection between listening to Nana Mouskouri, and being inside, or outside, a house ?
“There are obvious things, and there are many obvious things no one tried, because no one needed to try them.” Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov, January 1, 2014
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BillWoodruff wrote: what is the connection between listening to Nana Mouskouri, and being inside, or outside, a house ?
BillWoodruff wrote: Grecian Urn is how one feels listening to Nana Mouskouri
Not all of us agree that "Grecian Urn is how one feels listening to Nana Mouskouri".
I,for one, don't.
I was suggesting that you get out and experience life.
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Oh! I thought it was about 140 Drachma!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Sorry, but 3,360 tetartemorioi will not top-up your Urn with beauty, or buy your cat a premium fish-head, these days.
That would be only about 55 U.S. cents, or 18 Thai baht.
“There are obvious things, and there are many obvious things no one tried, because no one needed to try them.” Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov, January 1, 2014
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I've recently had to get to know it quite well. Having come from the old school of Windows services development and adding them to the SMC using installation media, I've come to like TopShelf very much.
Is anyone else using it? I'd like to read your experiences (good or bad) about it.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Never heard of, but now added to my learn list...Thanks.
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Three advantages that I've come to like so far are:
1. If your application is called fred.exe then running it in a command window as "fred.exe install" will install it as a service and "fred.exe uninstall" will remove it. That's far easier on the eye!
2. To debug a Windows service you'd have to attach a process to it in VS. That's fine to a point but it gets a bit messy if you want to debug the Start event. With TopShelf, that's a thing of the past; all you do is run it like you would a console application. I can't tell you how much time that has saved me this last week.
3. Its HostFactory lambda methods also have a lot of goodies you can bring to the party.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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The first two not new to me - you can see my article about windows service to host WCF services (Windows Service to Host Multiple WCF Services[^]), where I have these features - or most of them. What catch me eyes that TopShelf provides a unified API for service configuration and that is compatible with Mono...
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Again, I'm afraid I'm unfamiliar with this product, but I and I think most people tend to write Windows Services so that they can run as a console app. (with a -console switch or something similar) to aid development and debugging.
I will look at this this morning and see if I'm missing out!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Me neither heard of ,thank you for the reference.
Sorry for my bad English
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I'm working on a windows service right now, and haven't heard of TopShelf, but I did just look it up...
Its interesting in that as you mentioned, you can debug with the start instead of attaching to the process, however the big turn-off for me is the inability to host multiple services. They said something about a plug-in being available later, but I really don't want to create one executable for the 8 or so services that are going into this project...
I may re-visit when they come out with the extensions to allow multiple services.
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Ron, that's a fair observation and I too read about that on the website. To be honest, I've never required multiple services before but I know there are reasons why some projects need that facility.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Yeah, the documentation is not very clear in that respect and when I first read it, that's what I thought, too.
However, after using TopShelf for about 3 months now, I can tell you that this is not the case. I think what that means is that you can only have one service per application. In the application I'm working on currently, I have 4 services (each in their own exe), running with TopShelf.
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