after the stress of uni

Hahaha!!haha!!lol!!!hahaha….

aaaah…… <<sniff>>

<<wipes eyes>>

<<cleans glasses and regains composure>>

Ahem. Sorry about that.

Edit: D'oh – too slow :D

**EDIT: if you have the barcode scanner app installed, you can scan the 2D barcode (from the Thinkfree and Docs to go page) with your phone and it'll take you straight to the app on the marketplace.

1. As above – gmail is the way. Or live with non-HTML until you get to a PC.

2. Thinkfree or Documents to go (mentioned above – plus it's free <- EDIT: no it's not. Only the viewer is free, sorry) **

3. E-bay

tree-magnet

Actually, the horses in the field next door chew my hedge. I might just shoot them.
Let me know if you do, I'm rather partial to a bit of equine steak. 8)

what to do?? i was hoping one of the STW massive could

help!!

Help with what?

Fetching them? Finding some cheaper ones? An alternative solution? Growing some trees for lumber?

It's your bodies way of telling you that it would be a fashion disaster to wear them.

Mystery solved, I claim my £5.

They gave you a quote and you paid based on that?

They c*cked up and expect you to pay up? sorry but no; their mistake, their loss.

What software did you use to create the CAD drawing?

If it's a windows package can't you just ctrl-a, ctrl-c, switch to word and ctrl-v?

joemarshall – Member

….150 quid well spent – I'd never do it myself again.

Joe

Is that all it costs???!?!?!!

Why-oh-why didn't someone tell me?

<sits down as now has dust in eyes>

defaultslipper – Member

i am only days into the android experience but have been digging around on google maps. can anyone tell me how much data it uses up when using it? i am on vodafone, so there is a monthly usage of 500mb- i don't wanna be using it all up on google maps navigation.

I'm only two weeks into my ownership too. I've already used over 220Mb. Although most of that was because I had 6music streaming with the beebplayer for a day.

According to the Vodafone mods on the VF forum, you shouldn't worry too much about the 500Mb limit. It's not a hard limit, merely a guide. They'll only start to charge you if you are persistently using "loads". Say, peer-to-peer torrents on a PC tethered with the phone

Yup, I heard it was sorted on Sunday, but I didn't see it on my Desire until this morning (Still got the brut hack on though)

It works really well. Have you had a play with the layers?

The street view isn't available on the official one yet. That was quite a groovy feature of the brut hack. I'm not going to get rid of the hack until that appears on the official one.

EDIT: Yes, the unnamed road thingy disappears.

judith chalmers – wrap yourself in sponge and paint yourself orange

^^^^^ He sells kebabs too – I wonder if the doner was badly packed? :oops:

My Iranian next-door-but-one- neighbour owns a pizza shop – I can't vouch for the softness of his skin though. 8O

mmmmm…. he mentioned pies. 8)

flamejob – Member

I like the idea of a VFR 'cause the engine is bombproof

So is the 'birds. And they cheap too.

My Blackbird is good for 48mpg and can really shift 'if required'. I can spend all day on it and still feel reasonable fresh at the end of a long run.

Look for bar risers, after-market screens and air-hawk seat pads for ultimate comfort.

I got a pork pie for my birthday. It was ace. I love pies, me. 8)

Where are you based?

Consider somewhere like Downtown, Grantham or McArthur Glen[/url]. I go my last work suit from Downtown in January. £500+ suit for £110. It looks fine and, my colleagues tell me, that it'll be back in fashion again soon.

Oh yesssss.

She's an HEO (or whatever grade it is now). Has managed several county courts, Tribunals offices and is now a Team Lead in the OPG.

If you want to go to e-mails, mine is in my profile.

Thanks Geetee.

I think that's been her problem geetee, she really wants to make a difference; to help people out, to allow them to develop. She's had enough of the wading through treacle.

I know I'm biased, but she's a great girl and despairs at the way parts of the civil service seems very good at destroying the hopes and ambitions of some of it's brightest staff; simply because they can't work the system. One girl in her current location came in as a bright, bubbly, enthusiastic Graduate. She's been there just under a year and leaves the office in tears at least twice a week. Her manager, just doesn't get it. It breaks MrsG's heart to see it, but there's nothing she can do. No way to escalate it higher up the chain of command. She's spoken to the girls manager, but he doesn't give a sh*t. An attitude that is endemic, unfortunately.

As for what she wants to do instead? Last night, I saw her searching the internet for admin/clerical jobs at schools in the area. A big change and, I believe, a waste of her talents (not to mention serious drop in salary)

EDIT: Samuri, she applied around 12 months ago. I'm not sure she'll be able to hand on much longer. Good point though.

EDIT #2: Apologies for the hijack Luke.

geetee, I can't comment on "simulations" as I have no idea what you're talking about – way over my head (that and the correlation coefficients!).

All I can say is that MrsG (with 18 years service) is so disillusioned with the way the service is being run that she's going to chuck it all in. She applied for voluntary redundancy but was refused. Now she's just going to walk away. All quite sad really.

yeah but then at the face to face interview they gain an assessment of the sort of person you are and what your capabilities are even though that too is competancy based. It's easy for them to manufacture the interview to find out what they need, or it's easy for anyone who know's what they're doing. The competancy stuff just gets rid of all the people who have no hope of doing the job, the real assessment comes when you start talking to them.

Samuri,
Maybe it's just the way the civil service have implemented the system, but they still have boxes to tick at the face-to-face interviews too. It's bobbins.

One example of many…. MrsG was on an interview panel that rejected a person wanting to do a sideways move (same grade) from running a small court office to a team-leader role in a much bigger facility. This person had efficiently run this small office for several years (it was closing because of cost cuts). She answered all of the questions honestly and openly, if she couldn't talk exactly and in detail about a competence, she said so and, consequently, got a cross in the box. The girl who got the position blagged the interview, but ticked more boxes. MrsG could spot the bullsh!t, but the others on the panel weren't having it. The successful candidate is rubbish at her role, the team is failing and she is despised (apparently, she is an arrogant cow who does not have the respect of her team).

And yes, the original manager went to her union (PCS) who were completely useless.

. You can buy lowering kits to lose about an inch, but I think there may be some ground clearance issues.

Is re-shaping the seat an option? I know of people who've had their seat done in order to lose a little height.

My wife is a manager in the Civil service and has to use competence based application forms and interviews in order to recruit (both internally and externally).

She says it is a fundamentally flawed approach to recruitment as it removes any reference to personality, experience or actual ability to do the job. As long as the applicant can talk the talk, they will get through. Whether they have the personality or potential to fulfil the role is irrelevant and taken out of the interviewing panel's hands.

geetee1972 – Member

The world is full of people who've managed to get by because management were inept at identifying and differentiating good and poor performance. Competency based approaches make the system far more effecient.

Sorry geetee, I beg to differ.

The way the system is implemented in the Civil Service, it simply does not allow a manager to use their skill, experience and judgement to differentiate between good and poor performance. They have boxes to tick and that is all.

And again….. Whoosh :lol:

Or would 'belm' be more appropriate?

(I got it geoff. :wink: )

It may sound clichéd – but you will regret not finding time for her one day

It is not a cliché at all.

My mum died in 1990, I was 22 at the time. I'd left home at 17 on bad terms and had just started to build bridges between us 6 weeks before she died. I wish I'd done it sooner – I still miss her, even though she and I fought like cat and dog.

get a **** cab between the stations

Whoosh!!

I'm just putting my 2004 ZR-7s up for sale for about half of your budget if you're interested?

MCN review here[/url]. E-mail in my profile if you want any more info.

Ummm… Don't all coins have the dates on only one side?

Drac,

A Golf is, undoubtedly, a very nice car. However, given the amount of guff we tend to lug about, I really need an estate.

I think I might follow br's lead and start looking at older "quality" diesel estates. I'd quite like to try something nice instead of the recent years of something ordinary.

Cheers.

I splurged out on the Gaggia one a few years ago.

I've made eight bowls of Ice Cream with it.

So far, each bowl has cost me thirty seven pounds and fifty pence.

I am really pleased I bought it.

:?

Like I said I bought a 10 year old 535i (£2k), it had only done 80k with a FSH and was pretty immaculate. And my intention was to replace it after a couple of years with some else s/h that I'd never be able to afford new.

I did at the time look at newish rep-cans, 911's and Range Rovers :roll:, but bought the Beemer and a new Triumph instead.

Yes, you're quite right. I'm just getting a bit carried away looking at shiny new car's. I do like the idea of a new bike though. Maybe a new VFR1200. Hmmmm.

No, but thanks for the link ;-)

Passat estate Blue Eco thingy? Huge, any good to drive?

re-open the subaru catalog and turn to the page for the Diesel Legacy. It's good. oooooooh!! Thank you.

br – I was wondering about a contract hire/lease/thingamajig. I'm not sure whether company mileage would be claimable, is it?

uplink – I'd still do the majority of my commute on my motorbike, so mileage I'm not too fussed about. Good shout on maintenance though.

Oh yessssss. :twisted:

<reopens the Subaru Legend catalog>

EDIT: <closes Subaru Legeng catalog> I have to pay for my own fuel. :?

Okay then, any suggestions? Economical, comfortable, spacious (I'm 6'2" & I have two kids under 5years old (and associated paraphernalia))

I may be selling one very soon.

T Reg, 80k miles, FSH, Air con, Sunroof. V. Reliable. etc :D

Ah, so I don't need to worry about C02 ratings and taxable values?

No Idea about mapsource or city navigator europe. Sorry.

Google maps is great on my Desire and co-pilot can be had for a few pounds. I came from a windows 6.1 smartphone + TomTom. I prefer the Desire – it's just light years ahead.