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Google for "online fax" and you'll find some alternatives with the email-to-fax. I wouldn't want to pick one out, because obviously you need a price and plan that suits you (for example, it should be possible to get pay as you go if you don't need an incoming fax number I would think). But being online, this is great with broadband. Cheers!

You may find that the resources for researching Clans are as good in the US as in Scotland. These folk here might be able to point you in the direction of the best books on the Clan: Clan Ferguson USA Here are some other ideas you might like to check out before your trip. Scotland has some of the best organised genealogical records in the world - they are all centralized and all are online - so in addition to your clan history you can look up your actual family too. If you already have an outline of your family history, the mormon site familysearch.org can be a great place to search for free (to go 'fishing' for relatives). But to get the best records, you need to go here: Scotland's People It does cost money, but you can literally look up your family history and download copies of original documents from your home - which is light years ahead of many other countries. You should be able to get back to 1800. Don't forget to look at census returns and marriage certificates too - because they contain interesting information about occupations and where they lived. And here's a great thing that's easy to do thanks to the internet: Multimap It's often possible to look up the address on multimap, and give yourself somewhere to visit when you are over! If it's an old farm or property, it may even be worth a google - many still have the same name. And finally if you're looking for places to stop on your travels around the country, I recommend this site - it's the best by a mile, because you can actually see the places: Undiscovered Scotland Best of luck!!

When you were using WINFAX, your dial-up modem was ringing the phone line as a fax machine and not as a PC modem. It can do this because it sends PC data as essentially voice 'noise', like a fax. A broadband modem doesn't work like that at all, so it can't pull the same fax trick. There are some options: If you have a free or very cheap dial-up ISP account, you could still connect up your old dial-up modem to the phone line and use it like you used to. As Ken said, add that filter on the end. There is a VOIP fax format, but I wouldn't say it is widely adopted, or necessarily easy to set up. (And I have no idea if it works with your WINFAX software). Or you can use an online fax service - you email the word document or whatever, and it faxes it to the number. There are even some free ones out there, but they don't always send them straight away (bad news if important, or sending to someone's house - it might call them at 2am). Cheers!

Hey, don't forget that the clocks change tonight for many of us. And for some folk on the forum it can be a big job! In fact, some have only just finished resetting their watches from the last clock change! Cheers! (Oh crap, I just worked out that I lose an hour's sleep )

You're right - that gold one is especially nice!

Strictly-speaking the watch is buried under the pile of paper, which means I have a $2 watch weight... ...but hang on, if I put the watch at the top of the pile....this might work!!

Ken's watch there is a beaut! I have a faux chrono with the black face. Love that watch, but joined the Planet Ocean club for my birthday so that's getting most of the wrist time. The poor Lange is sadly neglected, but on my office desk all the same! For a $45,000 saving I found I could live with the odd detail being off!

Any one watch in particular? Generally the Lange reps could never sit side by side with the gens, because Lange's have unique movements (which also give them special price tags). But, of course, the Lange reps are beautiful watches in their own right. I have one and love it.

This watch is absolutely beguiling....

What an absolute tragedy. Best wishes to your family from Australia.

Great pics! Reminds me of parts of North East Scotland (unsurprisingly). And sweet wee thing in the avatar too!

Thanks for this report - it's a shame because this watch is stunning. I think it says a lot for just how good this watch looks that we could read a report that the movement is made of cheese, and many of us would probably still consider it!

Fantastic travelogue! Cheers!

Welcome!!

This thread discussed it a bit: Swiss made definition

Some huge Breitling pics to enjoy! I think some shots are actual size Please be patient while Imageshack's bandwidth bill goes up Cheers!

Yes, USD or EUR normally. I'm sure the dealer will have instructions on how they like it if they accept Moneybookers. Cheers!

I'll second that. If you have the time (and it is a total pain to verify and "load") Moneybookers is a lot cheaper if you are tranferring from a bank account. Much cheaper than WU, and even Paypal sometimes (if you are paying in a foreign currency.) One thing to watch though, if you load it from a credit card it is more expensive than Paypal I believe - I think it charges it as a cash withdrawal.

When it comes to raffle tickets, you bet!

Wake up! I just thought an alarm goes off and he slides down a pole like Batman....

Ditto that!

It's a real advert concept - as in the Jung von Matt agency in Hamburg did it - but I couldn't tell you if it ever actually went out into the big wide world. Here something on a similar theme for Wempe watches and jewellery: