You're a marvel, Brian. Thank you! I'll have to shout you a beer sometime ...

You're a marvel, Brian. Thank you! I'll have to shout you a beer sometime ... or a glass of dry red wine!

Colin, you can install the autofill add-on from the link below. After you ...

Colin, you can install the autofill add-on from the link below. After you restart Firefox, go to the add-ons window (it should have automatically opened, otherwise tools>add-ons), select the autofill extension, click on options and complete as required. Remember to go to the advanced tab and tick, 'store form filed rules encrypted'.

James May & Oz Clarke are the two guys in question.

We are now back on Firefox, Brian, but I can't seem to get the "autofill" ...

We are now back on Firefox, Brian, but I can't seem to get the "autofill" facility. I can get in on Internet Explorer ... but not through the Mozilla Firefox facility. Any ideas as to how to re-install it?

I like the Hairy Bikers.

And who are the two blokes who did the tour of British pubs, tasting the various beers? One is from Top Gear (which is very popular in Australia). Oz and James ... isn't it? I liked their wine programme (in France). The chef from SW England is on now ... the one with the little dog ... that died. Didn't he leave his wife and run off with a young Australian TV producer?

Brian - I suppose you are gonna tell us that sixty British pounds is "chicken ...

Brian - I suppose you are gonna tell us that sixty British pounds is "chicken feed" for a surge protector. We thought it was quite a good one ... not any more ... but, apparently, nothing can stop a direct lightening strike.

Anyway, it's wonderful to be back on the internet. Do you think the British Folk Revival would have occurred ... if we'd had the internet in the sixties?

I was thinking that, as a figure of speech, Michael Jackson was a figure of bleach.

Sorry Michael.

Brian - we actually had two surge protectors in our set-up. The first one ...

Brian - we actually had two surge protectors in our set-up. The first one cost about $120 Aus. dollars (about 60 British pounds). Then the system went via a "back-up box" (with battery). But an electrician told us that absolutely NOTHING can save a computer if you get the sort of "direct" strike that we experienced. The strange thing is that nothing else was affected - the TV remained on, the lights were still on, the telephone still worked, so did the fridge and everything else. A bloke about a mile up the road said that his TV blacked out for a second or two. A neighbour told us that she saw a huge orange ball of flame in the night sky. Incidentally, a mobile computer company came up on the Monday. He took our computer to his van and said: "Can you hear that ticking sound? That means your mother board has been destroyed". Oh, the Hairy Bikers are on TV.

Colin, you are correct that the ultimate protection during an electric storm ...

Colin, you are correct that the ultimate protection during an electric storm is to turn off and unplug your computer but you can also protect it by using a good quality surge protector.