Are doors - including the ones in the house I've lived in for 35 years - getting narrower? I keep on bumping into them and yes, it hurts. From this week it will also bruise really badly as am now on anti-coagulants... :(
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There have been a few odd glitches in things recently; a couple of days ago the Freeview guide for BBC1 just described it as C-Beebies for the entire day. My paranoid tendencies fear this is the Ruskies testing out their ability to hack stuff. Imagine the chaos if the entire country braced for 14,971 mph winds (as my area was predicted yesterday), temps in the 400F region (ditto) and nothing but C-Beebies on the telly! :wtf: :omg:
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I've only just looked at it ( having read this post) and no, doesn't strike me as hard. Easier than many of yours, I'd say. (That's not to say I would necessarily have got it, but it's not a complex or dodgy clue)
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I'm fine thanks. Haven't visited CP for a while, need to catch up... Change of routine. Good to see the CCC is back - an incentive to get going by 9am!
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I bought very few books. The "treasured" ones are from a very long time ago; 6502 programming, manuals for UK101 etc. A bigger problem for me, now acting as several inches of loft insulation, are user manuals and course materials that I wrote, for various software vendors. Can't chuck them as probably the only copies still in existence! 😂
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Have been more-or-less retired a couple of years now, started getting my state pension this week. :-D I still have a couple of clients I provide ad-hoc support for, but boy does it get in the way! I have no idea how I used to fit in a full-time job (and, in the previous century, commuting as well). I find I'm working till almost midnight fairly often just to do what I consider the essential stuff. Partly I think I have slowed down (things take longer) but that doesn't account for it all. I'm just too busy. The real pain is hospital appointments (for me and SWMBO) as they're pretty inflexible, and far too many of them. Sometimes they impact on real-life more than the conditions they're supposed to be dealing with. And my to-do list is still getting longer...
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If I were closer I'd be willing to offer a second opinion... :)
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Succinctly put. I switched for working "for" someone to "with" someone when I went freelance. I felt far more in partnership with my clients, and more invested in their businesses, than I ever did as an employee. I got the feeling though that my approach was not what most were used to when working with freelancers... Also at no point in my career would I ever have even hinted that I'd used SO or any online equivalent. If I didn't know how to do something (which happened quite often) I'd acknowledge it, then use the manuals to find the answer. (And if it was something that my client could reasonably have expected me to know, I wouldn't charge for that time, either. Employers expect to pay for training, clients don't.)
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I often get "proof of delivery" notices that state "handed to Derek" and a photo of my house ( taken from the street, not even from the front garden). This usually happens when I'm away for the weekend. Fortunately the guy that does this actually leaves things in the side passage (behind the door) as requested.... 😂
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Watford - or "Watford, London" as Warner Brothers and the Grove Hotel would have you believe :doh:
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Renewed mine last week, it's gone down £10, now about the same as it was pre-covid (but different, much newer, car). But not like the one year when it went from £250+ to £38. No changes to policy, car, or driver. Just one absurdly cheap year. Anyway at £170 for a 4-year old car, outside London but inside M25, I'm not complaining. Same insurer for about 8 or 9 years now.
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Indeed... When people refer to Internet "standards", I sometimes remind them that they're really just "suggestions" 😂
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Don't know, but many (most?) gov.uk forms - that we HAVE to use for tax, pensions, cars etc - are marked as "BETA". There's no option to go back to the previous "version"... :laugh:
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I read about the difference in meaning between "completed" and "finished" yesterday. Marry the right woman, you're completed. Marry the wrong one... You're finished!
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Still on Win10 here... are you telling me that in Win11 you couldn't (until now) drag/drop directly onto the folder (treeview) panel? That's absolutely crazy! I even have links to FTP sites so that I can just drag-drop up to FTP (without having to open the FTP folder and get the file list, which takes foreeeeever). That said, I currently (starting a week or so ago) have an issue where if I right-click anything in explorer (to access anything on the context menu) it takes a good 30 seconds to open... I'm assuming a 3rd party tool (e.g. SodaPDF, Notepad++, PowerISO or something) is broken... nothing updated for a while. Except.. yes a Windows update, 13th June. doh...
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Interested in an enthusiastic amateur way. As a kid (aged 4 or 5) I travelled to Italy (Birmingham -> London -> Milan) a fair bit, and can still remember both the Viscounts on the domestic flights, and the Tridents, Comets and (once, I think) a VC10 on the international leg. Loved flying in the days when you had china crockery, room to stretch out, your own large window. In teens went to Farnborough airshow and various RAF bases, with friends who were in the Air Cadets (couldn't afford to join myself). One of my jobs in my 30s involved a lot of European day trips and several longer trans-Atlantic ones, and on one of these took myself on a jolly around Canada. Air Canada used to do a "freedom of Canada" ticket, valid for unlimited domestic flights over a week - but standby only. So literally hanging around the departure gates hoping there'd be a no-show and hopping on where-ever it was going. Best/riskiest bit was going on the Yellowknife -> Resolute weekly trip on a 50/50 cargo/passenger 737. Only one flight back out each week so there just HAD to be a space on the return. Fortunately there were a few. Also done a couple of gliding trial flights, and some very small aircraft (and helicopter) trips to the Scilly Isles; and also splashed out on a helicopter transfer from Nice when visiting Monaco. I enjoy flying but hate the airport hassle and stress, and also very concerned about the eco impacts of flying. Last trip to Europe was fly out, train back - tbh, the train return was much better, more comfortable, cheaper and only a couple of hours longer. Including an hour in Paris' Gare de Lyon famous "Le train bleu" restaurant. Spend a lot of time reading crash reports and watching videos; fascinated by the investigation process and the way that a tiny error can escalate to major disaster. (This aspect I think grew from a similar fascination with railway accidents and signalling). The one thing I hate about air traffic are the vapour trails, which as far as I'm concerned are a horrific graffiti in the sky. Even at Resolute, and at Nordkapp in Norway, the sky is full of lines scarring the view. Plus as they spread out they form clouds that can obscure half the sky, contributing even further to climate change.
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I'm a long-term web developer, used to building web-based applications in ASP.Net and using CSS, semantic markup, Javascript, AJAX and dynamically-generated content at the server. I'm happy hand-coding CSS and crafting HTML using classes, defining grids, floats etc. etc.. I've recently been "commandeered" by a charity I volunteer with to assist their overworked webmaster. Their website is primarily static pages, and end-users can add blog entries for specific categories. There's no server-side form processing involved. BUT the site is running on the WIX platform. It is possible to write page-specific CSS, but it won't do you much good as WIX generates its own HTML from your definitions of strips, sections, text etc - and doesn't let you add classnames or element IDs. The webmaster reckons WIX is the bees-knees and claims that "Wix is probably the leading web platform around today. ... Wix is truly state of the art and the market leader." He also claims that it generates "responsive pages" - but the "responsiveness", such as it is, is done at the server. This means if you open a page on a mobile phone, then turn it into landscape, the page doesn't re-flow or re-structure; it just makes everything bigger to fill the width. This is NOT my understanding of "responsive design"... I'm curious as to others' opinion of Wix, and whether I'm missing something obvious, or am way behind the web design trend.
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A-ha... I do it over ethernet via a spare port on the router, which is not in the office anyway. In fact I could even do it via the mains, as I already send network over the mains to a wifi repeater anyway. Doing it over the network rather than USB means any device in the house can print from anywhere.
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yep, never understand the point of a wireless printer. You going to carry it around with you? Much simpler to just plug the ethernet cable into the back of your wireless router and have done with it. It's not even like it's battery powered and you could print sitting by the pool (or the recycling bins...) I have one (wireless) but the first thing I did was plug it in... :laugh:
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Line? What line?[^] :laugh:
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