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Author: | davrosG5 [ Wed May 30, 2018 10:01 am ] | |||||||||
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As expected VTEC rejected my claim a second time... using exactly the same text they used the first time. It's almost as if they didn't even bother reading my complaint. Next stop Passenger Focus I think. |
Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Tue Jun 12, 2018 3:45 pm ] |
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I was going through some old paperwork and found my claim to HMRC for professional expenses. They said they'd adjust the tax code to reflect the expenditure. I naively assumed the tax code would remain so I didn't have to keep claiming. Turns out they did it for that year and then reverted to standard. So I've just gone through my expenses and resubmitted a claim for the last four years. Hopefully should be accepted. |
Author: | davrosG5 [ Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:33 am ] |
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One of my friends appears to be determined to bate the notoriously good humoured people at airport security in Texas where he's flying for business. He picked up Iran in his works World Cup sweepstake thingy so has updated his bookface profile with a 'I support Iran' banner and is apparently wearing an Iranian team t-shirt for his flight. What could possibly go wrong. ![]() |
Author: | BigRedX [ Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:24 pm ] |
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Just done a business card design for a new client, who is going to get it printed at Vistaprint. So I download the relevant template from the Vistaprint site and create the design over the top. However when I come to test the artwork by uploading to Vistaprint, I discover that the specifications on their upload page are 3mm shorter than those in the template! Then spend a frustrating hour on the phone talking to various Vistaprint representatives trying to explain that the 3mm discrepancy is not the difference between the trim and bleed sizes but the fact that the template they supply does not match the measurements on the upload page and consequently when I upload my artwork 1.5mm extra is trimmed off the top and bottom. |
Author: | l3v1ck [ Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:56 pm ] |
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I can see how that would be annoying. I use them for my business cards too. Thankfully I've never had a problem, but them I don't think I used one of their templates. I did my own from scratch. |
Author: | BigRedX [ Fri Jun 15, 2018 9:53 pm ] | |||||||||
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The template just has the bleed, trim and text safe area marked on it. I thought it would save some time not having to create them first. I was wrong. |
Author: | davrosG5 [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:23 am ] |
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I can't help but thinking that the Daily Mash are being a bit too clever when it comes to data sharing transparency: clickety |
Author: | davrosG5 [ Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:28 am ] |
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So, my attempt to make Falafel from scratch didn't go terribly well. They didn't so much cook as disintegrate when I was frying them - I ended up with a really nice green coloured oily chick pea sludge. I think the mixture might be too wet so a bit of flour should hopefully remedy the situation. |
Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Tue Aug 07, 2018 9:37 am ] |
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So a few weeks ago, I painted the small bedroom in the house to give it a refresh. Nothing special, just white paint. There was a mirror on the wall that was large enough and tricky enough to hang that it took two of us to do so. Swmbo took it on herself today to try and hang it. Result? Scraped the wall where I had painted and cracked the mirror frame (though not the mirror). |
Author: | big_D [ Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:47 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Automatic translation. I hate it! I'm doing some research at work and having to prepare information in German, as usual. I need a lot of information from Microsoft and Google. The sites are available in English and "machine translated" German. As I am doing the work in German, I used the German pages, because it should be easier, as I then shouldn't have to translate the information a second time for my report... Only the machine translated pages (using both companies respective translation engines) are complete jibberish. Well, at first glance it looks like German, but when you try and read it, verbs are missing or misrepresented or it uses the wrong verb altogether or the meaning the of the sentence is the exact opposite of what was written in English!
In fact, the re-translated English sounds a lot better than the German that was created! |
Author: | paulzolo [ Thu Oct 11, 2018 4:56 pm ] |
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan ... ooded-road Kayaking on The Strood isn't a good idea, but driving across it in that kind of condition is idiotic too. People get stranded trying to drive across at high tide is a common occurrence. |
Author: | paulzolo [ Thu Oct 18, 2018 8:46 am ] |
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Someone has just sent me a JPEG of a certificate. Can I make it into a Word document for him to play around with? I don’t even HAVE Word. No need for it, and it’s way too costly for the amount of use I’d get out of it. So an answer was no. Also: never ask a designer to do stuff in Word. |
Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:44 am ] |
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Some PDF editors/OCR software will convert images into editable items. Might be worth a go? |
Author: | BigRedX [ Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:46 am ] | |||||||||
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If you did have Word, you could have simply imported the JPEG into it and sent it back to him. I've lost count of the number of time I've asked for logos only to be supplied with a Word file containing a very low resolution version of the logo (probably off their web site) embedded in it. |
Author: | big_D [ Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:01 pm ] |
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LibreOffice and save in Word format? But a pretty silly request. |
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