Free stuff available.

One very popular conference is cix:free.

Got something to give away ? There’s usually someone who either wants it, knows someone else who might want it, or has got an idea where else you go to give it away.

I was trying to help my father get rid of an old bicycle of mine and while no one was interested in taking it, I got plenty of suggestions on ways to dispose of it including using www.freecycle.org or looking for something similar to www.motov8.org.uk

The latest items for free are :

Palmtop mags, Synergy 2100 or similar rechargeable battery, Several 17″ Iiyama glass monitors, Gnome slide projector magazines, CompactFlash Cards and PDA holster .

There’s lots lots more available, or if you have stuff to give away join CIX for a great place to post it.

Noticeboard conference, Got a question? You know who to ask.

One very popular conference is noticeboard. Got a question and you need help ? Post it in noticeboard. Recent questions included

“Anyone got a recording of that brilliant episode of such and such, my recorder packed up and the wife will kill me if we don’t see the last episode”

Anyone got any advice on carpet laying ?

Did England formally declare war over the Falklands.

Anyone know a place that can deliver champagne to someone in Basel, Switzerland. My advice is check www.basel.info . Antonius Lounge will apparently deliver pizza and DVD, they may be able to stretch to a bottle of bubbly.

Top 20 conferences

Here’s a list of the top 20 most active conferences on CIX with the number of posts

electronics	181
enquire_within	122
gussets_live!	96
jokes	51
gourmet	43
sasha_lubetkin	31
broadband	30
cars	30
bbc.radio	29
diy	28
windows_2003	26
bikers	25
mac	24
photo	24
archers	24
a_and_e	23
windows_vista	23
own.business	22
windows_xp	20
cix.support	20

As you can see there’s a wide range of topics and a high rate of posting. Are you interested in any of these topics? Join up today for a free one month trial.

Joke of the day

One conference that is usually very active is jokes.

Here’s a quick and funny one :

Two aerials meet on a roof – fall in love – get married.

The ceremony was rubbish, but the Reception was brilliant.

Boom Boom, as basil brush used to say. More jokes when I can’t think of anything else to post.

What’s the top discussion today ?

CIX recently launched a new online interface to the forums. If you are a cixen you can access it here.

Sadly I cant show you a screen shot, but the front page has the “Most popular” postings of the day. The top posting today is “Sad and Depression”. Ok, so that may not be what you want to discuss, but it shows the range of discussions that happen in the many thousands of conferences. Other discussions : cover a question on flickr in the photo conference, an upgrade dilemma in the hi-fi conference and Organ Donation in Sasha’s conference.

One of the major attractions of CIX if the use of Off Line Readers (OLR). The ability to download your unread messages to your local PC and read them offline. One of the many advantages of this off line reading is the speed of the user interface , since there is no server to slow down the display.

CIX supply an OLR name Ameol, ( A Most Excellent Off Line reader) There are many others including Polar for Psion, Augur and Parlence that runs on a Mac.

Welcome to the Cixen Blog

This blog is going to be a public face to CIX, the online community. I shall be posting some excerpts from the conferences to give you a flavour of some of the thousands of conferences on the system.

If you are a cixen and would like to add your stories please contact me to add you as an admin.

The first month is free, so join up today and see what there is on CIX