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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by mark1959 on October 24, 2010, 03:21 AM »

Couple which are at opposite ends of the spectrum:

The Mighty Walzer - Howard Jacobsen; hilarious and the best 'sporting' novel ever (it's about table tennis)
Feast of The Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa; very dark indeed but compelling

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Living Room / Re: Texting on the rise

« Last post by mark1959 on October 24, 2010, 03:18 AM »

Texting seems utterly embeddedin the culture for anyone under 30 in the uk.

Can't remember the last time I saw a teenager who wasn't texting.

recently I took someone on in a job role and, during their induction ... they were texting!!!

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Living Room / Re: "White" Magic

« Last post by mark1959 on October 24, 2010, 03:17 AM »

Did the spells work?

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Living Room / Re: Companies paying people to say good things about their products on forums

« Last post by mark1959 on October 24, 2010, 03:15 AM »

This kind of stuff is on the increase and pretty widespread already.

few years back I'd always look around for reviews on just about anything I was looking to buy. These days I discount almost all of them except if they're on one site that I trust.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by mark1959 on October 24, 2010, 03:12 AM »

Hi,

Just signed up here. Looks like a friendly and useful place too.

Background - well, spent 20 yrs in IT designing, building etc. latter part on as/400 stuff.

Left It 10 yrs ago, did some other stuff and found myselfbeing drawn into web development.
Currently working for a charity but still building sites - mostly, but not all - in wordpress.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Recycle Bin Configurator

« Last post by mark1959 on October 23, 2010, 02:33 PM »

Oh,

course  thanks!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Recycle Bin Configurator

« Last post by mark1959 on October 23, 2010, 11:33 AM »

The vanilla bin is all I need

Sorry, but what's the vanilla bin?

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Fear of Programming

« Last post by mark1959 on October 23, 2010, 11:11 AM »

That's quite interesting but, if you code for a living, fear doesn't come into it.