Two sane questions and a stupid question

[devi]

Sane No.1: Does anyone know anything about those 'buy a piece of rainforest' schemes as seen on Good Gifts and similar places? If you do buy some, does it actually mean anything? Do the bought pieces of forest actually get protected from logging and so on? Apparently they're 'held in public ownership'. I wonder what that means.

Sane No.2: For the Londoners - what's your favourite London-related charity? Why?

Stupid: Um... how do you actually format a hard disc? Do you just go to the DOS prompt and type format c:? It's been so long since I've done it, and none of the GUI-based system tools (eg System Restore) are working on the sick machine. They just won't display.

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[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a Tube ad for that company, and they do sell revolving goats (http://www.goodgifts.org/goodgifts/product_info.php?cPath=67&products_id=76).

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

London Play is a good London charity....but then I have to say that, cos I'm on the board. (www.londonplay.org.uk)
Are you thinking of making a donation or doing some volunteering? And what sort of things are you interested in?

[ex-humanfema327.livejournal.com]

if you want to reformat a drive you have to boot from another drive like a cd or floppy disk. if you have windows xp cd that will offer you to reformat when you boot from it.

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Eaves Housing. ladycat works there, and it's horrific the kind of things that still happen in what we like to think of as modern times. Surely kidnapping women in poor countries and selling them into sexual slavery in "civilised" places such as the UK went out with the dark ages?

Sadly not.

[clarisinda.livejournal.com]

1) I'd wondered that too. Don't know.

2) St. Mungos (www.mungos.org). They help loads of homeless people in London, (particularly round King's Cross/Euston where I work) get off the streets, find homes and back into work. I've been supporting them for a couple of years - admittedly in part because I felt guilty ignoring all the homeless people I see round here every day. I don't know how much difference if any it makes really, but surely it's better than doing nothing? I don't know...

3) I haven't a clue.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

I don't have any answers, but I really wanted to point you to this post in light of your posts about the posh prick you had in class.

Intelligence, apparently

[a-llusive.livejournal.com]

Intelligence, in case you missed it.
I tried e-mailing you, but it failed.