Posted in 'Real time' PAYE pilot goes live at HMRC
Good recipe...
... for real-time pain throughout the tax year?
Posts by I'm Brian and so's my wife
86 posts • joined Wednesday 29th July 2009 12:02 GMT
Posted in Evernote
Re: Forgot to mention.....
If you don't have an account how will they identify you & the data you store on their servers? Don't forget that your notes are available from your phone or PC.
Given the range of formats a single note could potentially contain, in what format would you envisage the exported file?
It may be that something like Astrid may suit your needs. It links into the tasklist on your Gmail account. I'm currently migrating from the former to the latter, with a view to having a joint to-do / research list with Mrs Brian.
Posted in Evernote
Re: I wish there was a notes app built in
I've got a Samsung Galaxy S (mk 1). It came with a memo app - is that what you're after?
I, for one...
... welcome our new zombie overlords, etc.
Oh - austerity measures on icons? Best fit selected.
Re: £200bn?
Given that it's an Olympic year, please convert your "fucktonne" into a more appropriate unit; the equivalent number of Olympic swimming pools or running tracks please.
VLC FTW!
My first thought was "who the hell still uses Windows Media Player when there are so many better alternatives?"
Mr Darroch
The very best of luck getting people to distinguish between your two companies. I'm reasonably well-informed on business matters (compared to the general population) but as far as I'm concerned News International == BSkyB.
You may be separate legal entities, but I think your reporting styles and corporate philosophies are remarkably similar...
I chose the shouty icon because that's all I hear/see when I have the misfortune to walk past a TV with your (ahem) news program broadcasting.
I'm glad...
... that the caption under the photo wasn't "actual size" <shudder>
That graph is absolutely *shocking*! How can 25+% of people attain the best grade?
The caption to one of the pictures:
"17.5% of students in 2009 got three As at A-level"
What's the flipping point of that? Whoever's in power will tinker & tinker (and generally get it wrong or not leave it long enough to take effect), but right now Gove is proposing to overhaul the exam boards. The proposal sounds good, but we'll have to see about the execution & implementation. Have a search for "gove exam board" and you'll see a link to a Telegraph article (Dec 2011) where he states that universities are starting to cherry-pick students based on the boards they did. This was inevitable.
Re: @I'm Brian and so's my wife
Indeed! Of course, the sale was heavily publicised to ensure that everyone knew about it beforehand.
I walked past a box this morning and noted that it had a BT Fibre sticker on it - gimme, gimme, gimme!
Re: You mean...
I just searched for
http://whatgordondidnext.com/
but it returned a DNS error. How ironic.
Re: You mean...
... and driven through by a twice-sacked (more?) tosser?
6. ...
7. PROFIT?
Posted in Aliens Blu-ray disc set
Re: Errrmmmm....
The extra footage included (IIRC):
- the family going out to investigate the co-ordinates Burke provided (and the resulting chaos)
- more on the autopsies done on the face-huggers
- moar splosions & gunfire from the robot sentries
A bloody brilliant top 10 film, particularly the director's cut!
Posted in Aliens Blu-ray disc set
Re: Well, I'm happy to disappint you.
Other applicable day-to-day quotes...
"I say we take off and nuke the entire database from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Posted in Vote now for the WORST movie EVER
Re: You guys clearly haven't seen 'the room'
I couldn't agree more. "The Room" was properly awful in a way the others can only aspire to.
i) the acting was so very, very bad
ii) the lead (& director) couldn't speak properly - his intonation was all over the place
iii) the characters were ridiculous
iv) the storyline was ludicrous
v) why were they throwing that football around while stood so close to each other?
vi) seriously, nothing happened!
vii) (spoiler alert) I was so mind-numbingly bored by the end of the film that when the lead committed suicide I was unable to feel relief
viii) did I mention how bad the acting was? It does warrant at least one more mention
This may also be seen as a courageous decision.
A brilliant series that still makes me laugh.
I should have read more of the comments before posting - there were bound to be others who were at least as enthusiastic about the show as I am!
Re: If the infected client machines are "known" or "discoverable"...
Have you lost your senses or are you in the pay of the machines?
Re: Spanish Inquisition
Well, shirley no one would expect that what with the diverse elements that comprise their weaponry?
Re: If you really have too much money ...
Luxury.
We lived in paper bag / hole in ground / went down t'pit / woke up before going to bed, etc.
Re: The Americans Know how to Do IT.
On the subject of your bank, have a look at smile.co.uk
Competent, UK-based staff and their Northern accents (based in and near Manchester) are perfectly intelligible.
Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
I must disagree: the series of B&B were irritating, but the film wasn't at all bad. Obviously the two main characters were still irritating but I found the over-zealous security chief very funny throughout.
Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
Re: best worst films
Oh dear God, I had totally forgotten about The Room!!
Definitely The Room, no shadow of a doubt: yet another one in the bucket beyond "so bad it's good." Perhaps that bucket should be termed "so bad, I wept uncontrollably with joy once it ended."
Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
SW9
Named after Brixton's postcode. It was a weird film that tried to capture the edginess of the area using a number of interweaving plot lines. It failed and just left me annoyed at losing a small bit of my life.
This was a while before on-demand video services over t'internet.
Posted in Bookeen Cybook Odyssey e-book reader
Re: Why such a high score!
It seems to be the time to take the plunge with eReaders - I bought my Sony PRS-T1 last Saturday. I had a look at the Kobo and I was tempted, but the Sony pipped it.
i) I'm not sure if the Kobo had a dictionary, but it wasn't as easy as the Sony's to access
ii) I inserted a microSD card with some PDFs and the Sony just displayed them. There seemed to be some faffing required with the Kobo.
iii) Crop feature with PDFs
iv) Slightly lighter
*Still* no Sony reader store, but I'm working through the 100 classics that I downloaded when I registered the device.
Re: Re: The Curse Of The 21st Century: MS Office
Don't forget that in addition to the code being almost readable as-is, there's also a recorder that can capture much of the functionality you seek as a not-unreasonable first stab which I'd laugh at and then re-engineer to be significantly better.
Macro recording really is excellent functionality (though dangerous in the wrong hands) and a *major* reason why Excel & MS Office generally are so popular within the business.
Posted in Ukraine file-sharing site disappears
Units please!
6000 TB? That's all well & good, but how high would the equivalent pile of sheets of A4 be?
Or since it's 2012 and we're encumbered with a huge debt and the threat of public transport meltdown this summer, maybe relate it to Olympic-sized swimming pools somehow?
Seconded
<---- Let's drop this icon in favour of Beaker
> ... advice on picking the perfect fountain
I thought it was duck moats which they excelled at? Well, that and taking taxis everywhere. What we really need is practical advice on how to claim expenses from the public purse.
Shirley he meant...
> the company was considering running open market auctions of its disk drives to *gouge* spot prices and demand
??
Most of those credit cards charge the retailer 2½% per transaction. The retailer would be happier to swallow the cost if the size of the transaction is greater.
That said, the business practices of RyanAir regarding payment charges is scandalous. I take my business elsewhere.
Don't forget that the OFT recently put out something around banning these fees.
To mis-quote Queen...
As in "fat-bottomed mesons, you make the rocking world go 'round"?
You're right...
... 3x is less dramatic than a 300% increase (which is 4x)
> My wide and I ...
Really, is that any way to talk about your better half?
Sharks with frickin' lasers
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit: it's the only way to be sure.
Give up your TV and your consumption is likely to drop: that'll be another PASS
Crushing my hopes?
I was happy to take the headline literally - you have *not* made my week :(
Posted in Why your tech CV sucks
>... with the clueless judging the greedy
A harsh truth that made me snort with laughter - thank you!
> If there's a side-effect to the Cox factor, it's that we could end up
> with a generation of physicists and astronomers - leaving other disciplines ignored.
That would be one side of the argument. The other would be that there would be a generation of people who've actually done a difficult, testing subject and would almost certainly contribute more than a generation of (for example) media studies grads.
There's far more chance of those guys being useful outside of their chosen field than the MS bods.
95% used soap, where available
Rubbish, or the sample is not representative. The number of men I see splash their hands or just walk straight out is disgusting and certainly not 5%. Why the aversion to soap? Totally gross.
Forlorn hope?
Is it too much to hope that the only people who'll download this will be security researchers installing it on VMs to see what it does?
Posted in Human 'alarm clock' enzyme discovered
Be thankful the dog doesn't step on your face and lick your genitals...
Offense is the best defence
It was just a pre-emptive strike before they rise up. When will the authorities realise the danger we're all in?
What's your cat's position on cutting the deficit and ensuring growth?
Just goes to show that even the tech-aware among us have been known to blurt out too much on t'interwebs.
Mid-sentence?
Was anyone listening after that?
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David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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