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1469: Blowing in the wind

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Wednesday, 4 August 2010. Blowing in the wind. It used to be the case that on 'recycling day', as I walk to work on a windy day, I'd see lots of bags of recyleable materials blowing down the streets, onto the fields and generally causing more problems than putting them in landfill. After quitely grumbling about them for a year or so, I'm really pleased that the council has replaced them with good strong plastic boxes with lids. For sorting and separating the recycling. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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1469: Bells and bees

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Sunday, 21 February 2010. Most of the mess happened to be thousands upon thousands of dead bees. Apparently, some years they swarm into the top of the tower, live there for a bit then die during the winter. I'm not looking forward doing any maintenance in the bell chamber (top floor) during the summer. So, now we have a belfry that people can go in without overalls. So, what's the next step? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Milk of kindness gone stale. View my complete profile.

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1469: Doggy Bag

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Friday, 19 March 2010. There's a lovely little bit of woodland near my office, with a footpath through it. I make a point of waking through it when going to and from the office - a bit of piece and quiet between the fast pace at work and home. Lots of other people walk through that strip of Eden too; it's a regular for people walking dogs or simply taking a short-cut. Unfortunately, there seem to be a lot of plastic bags in it.nothing. What possible reason can there be for it? View my complete profile.

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1469: Mortgage vs inflation

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Saturday, 13 December 2008. From time to time, you hear of little celebrations: "I finished paying my mortgage this month! On enquiry, you find that they won't really be much better off; their mortgage payments being £25 per month, or some incredibly low figure compared to a typical mortgage payment when you buy a house today. I'd get out a spreadsheet and play with some numbers.if I ever have enough spare cash to have to decide whether to pay back early or not. 15 December 2008 at 23:11. However, if you...

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1469: Shorthand

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Saturday, 1 January 2011. I have made two new year's resolutions this year. 1 More exercise (same as last year, but this time I mean it, again). And it's the second of these that this post is about. Let's start with the why. My handwriting is terrible. It always has been. Completely illegible. It's not that I cannot write legibly (even reasonably neatly if I must), but that I don't. I have often blamed it on using computers all the time, but that's not really true - I do write too. In fact what I end up ...

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1469: To the people of Greece

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Tuesday, 4 October 2011. To the people of Greece. When your country needs as much business, tourism and good will as it can get, why are you calling a general transport strike tomorrow? I cannot get home from my business meeting in your country any more, and at the moment feel like I won't be coming back if I can help it. You're really not helping your cause! Still, at least there's a pool and internet. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). To the people of Greece. View my complete profile.

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1469: Inflation again

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Tuesday, 4 January 2011. Some time ago, I wrote about the relationship between mortgage and inflation. Today, I came across an interesting article saying the same, but a bit better and more up to date, basically using inflation to get out of debt. I thought it was interesting because I still get tempted to chip away at my mortgage if I ever get a bit of spare cash. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My First Shorthand Wiring. View my complete profile. Home: www.broster.co.uk.

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1469: On a scale of Green to not Green

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Tuesday, 19 August 2008. On a scale of Green to not Green. Keen to reduce our water usage (during that hot, dry week a few weeks ago) I ordered a water butt to use for watering the garden. It seems a good idea to use rain, instead of tap water in the watering can. I fitted it yesterday and within 24 hours of unspectacular British summer, I had 100 litres of fresh rainwater. It's all very exciting. But what have I actually saved? To put things in perspective,. Ironically, I got stuck in the traffic jam on...

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1469: Salesforce Recent Changes

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Thursday, 29 May 2014. After a long time away from this blog, it's about time that I kickstarted it again. Recently I've been doing a bit of programming after identifying a need in our company. We use Salesforce, but always found that the lack of "recent changes" (a list of recent activities) a problem. We used to use a wiki for customer relationship management/CRM and when we outgrew that moved to salesforce. We always missed the wiki's recent changes page. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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1469: Stone age banking

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Thursday, 4 March 2010. For some reason, you can't do payments or transfers from our business Euro account using internet banking. Well, it would have been really useful.it's on the feedback form that we gave you years ago.". At least we can do telephone banking.". Err, actually that won't work either.". Hey we might even be able to get all the signatures done in the office too! You don't have a form for that? Anyone else feel like we're going backwards CBSH? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).