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From: Jim on 11 Mar 2010 14:18 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Rowland knows a lot of stuff - and Rowland gets pissed off that you seem > to think it's perfectly acceptable for people like the odious Pd to > follow me around making snide comments directed at me to ensure that my > reputation remains at rock-botton. > > Where is lies purely because of the constant trickle of personal abuse > and personal niggling I get from shits like Pd and the other semi-trolls > infecting this place. If your reputation is at rock bottom it's due to your habit of insulting and attacking people who have done you no harm other than to hold a contrary viewpoint to you. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: T i m on 11 Mar 2010 17:15 On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:35:06 +0000, Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote: >In article <ktjhp5tq33koieavqonl1sof25h0vs2sc2(a)4ax.com>, T i m ><news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> What I will give them their dues for is taking on an existing and >> opening another cycle shop in this economical climate! > >Bike shops have been doing a roaring trade recently. These are doing 'ok' but unfortunately have had to borrow quite a bit to get started, buy stock, a van etc. > Some businesses >thrive during a depression (undertakers, accountants) and bike shops >appear to be one. I hope they can ride it out (excuse the pun) till the world goes back to near what we currently except as 'normal' these days. > Two of my children work in a bike shop, including my >daughter Excellent. [1] >who has a first class honours degree in English and Celtic >languages from Edinburgh University, but really prefers to use her >hands to make her living. Good on her. Ok, unless she gets into hand building frames I'm not sure she's going to make millions but I've enjoyed a very 'hands on' career (BT, Kodak, Data-Comms, Support, Training) and not only have I enjoyed every minute I've had a 'good' living from it. [2] > At least she can discuss the technicalities >of frames and fittings with her Gaelic-speaking customers. Always handy to have an 'edge'. When I was IT training I considered learning BSL as the Co I worked for at the time we then could have offered trailing to hearing impaired delegates. Cheers, T i m [1] Our daughter has just gained her NPTC certification in Agriculture / chainsaws / felling / pesticides etc. In spite of it being hard / dangerous work *I* was much happier she'd chosen that at the time compared to her step sister that took up 'Performing Arts'. ;-(
From: zoara on 11 Mar 2010 19:33 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > If Woody or > Zoara had said that same thing, my reply would have been the same. My reputation is at rock bottom thanks to you, Jim. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Jim on 12 Mar 2010 09:58 On 2010-03-12, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > Surrounding the link with <> would have helped. > > Hence, instead of: > > http://www.some.web.address/som > eDirectory > > ><http://www.some.web.address/som > eDirectory> I should have added the reason: it makes them ctrl-clickable. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "[Cocaine] is addictive and probably quite bad for you if you have too much. But the same applies to Battenburg cake, and no one seems to freak out about that, do they?" The Daily Mash
From: T i m on 12 Mar 2010 10:11
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:32:53 +0000, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: > >> > It's exactly the wrong attitude to get a good >> >GCSE pass. Exactly what you need for a good upbringing and good >> >education, mind you... >> >> We hope so. > >It's obvious from what you've said that you've done better than average >at bringing up *that* child at least. That'll do, surely? It will have to indeed. [1] > <snip> > >The url I posted works perfectly, btw. Why claim that it's `broken'? See Zoara's explanation. > >> The 'Record' button is often a red >> circle or dot ... red for Record? > >Yes, but so what? Indeed. > >> [2] And sometimes Green for go? > >Red for stop and green for go make sense to anyone who's grown up with >traffic lights or machine tools. Or pretty well anything that has a stop and a go. > And I did. And colours are not >pictures - they are quite different. No, but they aren't words either. Stop and go being indicated by red and green make much more sense than red and green representing Port and Starboard. But along with left and right hands, West and East or anything else that can't genuinely read directly (by the majority at least) then we make up some aid-memoir to help us. For me, Port wine is red, I write with my right hand and 'WE' is the correct direction for West and East (assuming North is always up). > >Red and green when used as a pair have a near-universal meaning in our >culture: whatever the context, it's red for stop and green for go, or >nearest applicable equivalent concept. And you learn that from traffic >lights, and find it's standard everwhere after coming across machine >tools. Or anyway, I did. Yup, and that's pretty well the same for symbols, especially 'universal' ones as with the power button and media player controls / eject etc. Cheers, T i m [1] She went into the local[2] big branch of a bank in Scotland yesterday as he (b/f) is trying to start a business up there. The 'advisor' went to print a document for him to take away but couldn't seem to make it work, sorta giving up and blaming a 'faulty computer system'. Daughter spotted that it was a .pdf and after watching her flail about for a bit asked what options were available if she right clicked on it. She was then able to open the .pdf with Adobe Reader (Open with) but she was again thrown when it came to printing it. "Try the printer icon at the top" suggests daughter ... <click> <printer printing>. The woman then explained that "they didn't have such technology at her regular branch and daughter thought, "feck, what have they got then, a slate and a stick" ! ;-) We taught her how to explore / learn technical stuff. ;-) [2] 25 miles away = local up there. |