Jonboy

The thing today's race has done for is cemented in my mind just what a dull procession Monaco was...has Monaco had its day as an F1 circuit if other street races can provide this level of racing and drama?

I first saw something like this sync issue when xp was all the rage and vista was just being released ...a customer got upset that a request for overdue payment had been received everyday for the last six months...(our server logs could prove it wasn't the outbound system at fault).

There is a ongoing debate in Oxford cause the council wish to do a similar refurb and are proposing a bill of £60k per flat to cover it. Many RTB residents didn't realise they could face bills such as these because it work outside the routine and not covered by sink fund(which accrue funds for routine, but not annual work such as decorating shared areas). The council have referred themselves to a tribunal in advance of the work to confirm they are within the law. For residents that cannot afford the bill the council have offered a five year payment plan (just £12k a year to save from elsewhere in your budget), or they will take a stake in ownship (not a simple charge against it) of the flat and take the funds at point of sale in the future.

We have one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goodmans-Channel-Soundbar-Speaker-Subwoofer/dp/B00QE9RNNS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1497375527&sr=8-2&keywords=goodmans+sound+bar . It has made the sound much clearer on films and the bass is adjustable. What we didn't check before hand was if our TV to had any form of output socket for sound....it doesn't have a headphone socket, phono, rca, or optical so the soundbox is only useful with external devices.

I have had luck putting the card into a different camera on one occasion.

I work in the opposite end of the pottery market to Patb, having observed the bake off effect in the cake world, and the throwdown effect in our world I would say it is everyone (or club) for themselves to make the most of piggybacking onto marketing opportunities, but with such a niche market clubs are unlikely to tread on each other's toes.

http://wewantplates.com/

This week i was at Reading getting a train to Gatwick, a sprinter was sat at the end of a bay locked out of use in the old FGW Barrie livery. I watched a teenage girl have a paddy about how she wasn't getting on that scabby old train....the service train then rolled in behind it, an identical unit in the new green and she jumped on quite happy....says it all I think about perceptions.

In general a businesses merchant agreement will forbid processing card payments on behalf of another entity...mainy because it makes the S75 card protection liability too complicated for the banks if there is an issue to unwind. To spot hire a PDQ machine you need a merchant number with a bank or processor and the machines are around a £100 a week last time we used one(obviously long term hires are much cheaper per week). Running a merchant number means you have extra work to ensure you are compliant with PCS DSS rules(takes time and a monthly fee) You can get the PayPal terminals that connect via a mobile phone but these cost £50 or so each and take a bigger percentage, that you need to factor into entry fees. Is it therefore worth it for 2 Days a year of very low value transactions on entry fees?

About to take a wonder down to this show.

In other news there are various steels going up for the new multi-storey car park in the main car park at Didcot. It appears they are trying to build it over the live car park.

Trust me on this one, the shortest logical route, and the fastest (due to the roads being at capacity)are two very different things in this area. From Grove especially it is quicker by 15 minutes or so in rush hour. Now if only there was a site for an additional station further to the west, that would ease a lot of the congestion issues in the area and provide a valuable public service....

take your map and look at Milton Park, south mead estate on the other side of the power station site, and Harwell a mile or so in the other direction....and bear in mind the three sites have around 10k jobs. Then plot routes from Grove, Wantage, the Hanneys/denchworth/southmoor, and many other local villages and suddenly the concerns make a lot more sense. The other routes are all at capacity to the point a single broken down car on any one of them can cause 30 minutes or more delays to many many people. Also bear in mind that the other main route out of Steventon, (especially if after A34) being three miles through Drayton to Abingdon can take 30 minutes or more in rush hour on a normal day.

My sister used to be lollipop lady, the lights she had to protect her had a reed switch and timer, she waved a magnet underneath and the lights started flashing for a hour.

I had a skoda Octavia automatic on hire last year for a few days. When you stopped with the foot brake it stopped the engine under the eco stop/start function, when you released the footbrake it restarted the engine, regardless of the handbrake and park/Drive handle positions....so I could be green and and antisocial by holding footbrake on, or environmentally antisocial by running the engine when I didn't need too...

Could they be a deterrent to boats getting to close?

I had a demonstration of soldering at a exhibition, the 20 minutes or so were much more worthwhile than hours of magazine articles and online descriptions tried before to try and master it. I then bought a couple of diy electrical kits from maplin to consolidate the knowledge.

I guess that is my main isssue with it really, it is the first bit of tech/software in a very long time that I just don't find particularly instinctive to use. It may well be that I make my own life difficult by not liking video/sound as a medium in general and having an occasional stutter makes voice recognition a pita. I also prefer to locally host and backup my own data and am not a fan of cloud services.

At homeI have a win 10 2-in-1 laptop come tablet. In use it crashes on average once an hour at the moment.I cannot decipher the error messages if it stays alive long enough to find them. Take that with the horrid interface(tiles etc), the built in elements such as edge and cortana that you cannot truly diasable and the compulsory update schedule and I never use the ruddy thing if I can avoid it. At work I happily support 10 users on windows 7 pro, a server, an email exchange etc etc.....

I often use a small George Foreman grill for sausages, burgers, steaks, chops, bacon etc as they are cooked before the oven (or it built in grill) would be warm enough to use.

Someone beat you to it... http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/15210128.Cyclist_spotted__wearing_a_shed__on_morning_commute/

Interesting as a flat dweller it could well be considered antisocial to run said appliances at cheap times, if not forbidden within the lease as apparently many more recent leases are written. We also have a car park with the spaces not adjacent to the building and any such cables would need to cross a path and the turning area. It could be an interesting experience to get the management company to install charging points without a legal obligation to do so. It could be further complicated by the fact our lease grants use of a space, but not a specific space...

Is the autosport subscription worthwhile?

Sadly on the other side of the fence that simply reflects the costs we incur from couriers as a business. Both the Scottish highlands and Northern Ireland cost us around three times as much as the rest of the uk (most of our work parcels weigh 5 to 20kg).