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just got off the blower to the agency, he said the companies system is all in an archaic form of MS Access and the guy leaving is the guy who devolped it all but he is going to the company that supports their every day to day IT?

the company want to come bang up to date and go the SQL route.

and they want a jack of all trades with no experience of IT Project Management to implement that? Be afraid, be very afraid.

read the meter yourself before you do anything else. If it's less than 49212 you're in the clear

If they still insist then ring your local BBC radio station & say "here's a challenge for you"

however, “Overall supervision of the Company communications systems including EDI and liaison with the relevant Service Providers”

roughly translated, this sounds like

"we have an EDI system that works most of the time but it'll be your job to make sure it keeps working and know who to contact when it doesn't" – I suspect you won't be required to do any of the nitty gritty

the last time I had to deal with EDI (thankfully one of my colleagues is the in-house EDI expert), we had a PC with a bespoke package and a dial-up modem – but that was over 10 years ago.

If you have one of these, then somebody will need to write or maintain an application on your Sage system that exports your invoices and purchase orders to the EDI package, and imports your suppliers' invoices, and your customers' orders, into your Sage system. This will typically either be somebody in your IT team, or if it's outsourced, a third party.

We still have to have a special bit of code to do this, but these days it goes straight out of our main ERP system rather than having to drop it onto / pull it out of a PC.

If you're really lucky, your system will have an EDI module, so all you have to do is maintain the top-end data, such as Supplier, Customer and Product databases, and the system should do the rest…

well I'll see what hybrids are around when I come to trade in the Saab. Hopefully there might be a few more less ugly things by then ;-)

Primary concern is a lip on the load area – which must be able to take the bag of stands widthways – or rather, lack of lip. Only then does the MPG & other stuff come into play. It might be able to do 100mpg but if I have to raise the bag over a lip to get it into the boot, it's a loser

ok, but a Toyota Pious? come on ;-)

ugliest car on the road since the Fiat Multipla

besides I'm stuck with the Saab for another 4 years

Electronic Data Interchange.

Messages are sent directly from their computer system to your computer system without human intervention, thus eliminating the risk of human errors. In theory.

EDI messages are typically sent through a "value added network" although use of the internet is becoming more common.
Typical messages would be a customer's purchase order or a supplier's Sales Invoice. When your system receives a customer's Purchase Order, it should automatically generate a Sales Order and, potentially, an EDI acknowledgment.

Your sales order is then turned into a production work order, or a purchase order on another supplier (usually by hand in the production planning department), from where you will receive the goods into your Finished Goods warehouse either as a Purchase Receipt or a receipt from production. You can then despatch the goods, at which point an invoice is usually generated. This will then be sent either as a paper form, a PDF, or another EDI message.

This of course is equally applicable if you're the customer rather than the supplier

I've yet to see a hybrid in an estate bodyshell, otherwise I'd consider one.

hatchback or saloon are no good for me as i have a big ****-off heavy bag of cymbal stands that live in the boot; a loading lip would be a nightmare

brown shoes should only be worn with a brown (or shade of brown) suit

What is the car & how do you drive it

I have an 8 year old 1.9 tdi with 130K on the clock and can never get the mpg below 45 and frequently top 52 on long journeys (with cruise set at 75-80mph) so you must be very right foot heavy (think of it as your little luxury to yourself!) or drive a right biffer!

that depends entirely on your normal route to work; if it involves major conurbations you can easily drop into the high 30s:
my journey is about 28 miles each way. I have a Saab 1.9TD estate, before that I had a BMW 320d estate. In both cars I have, over the last 5 years, averaged no better than 39mpg. The most direct route to work takes me from Baildon, through Shipley & Bradford to the M62 at J27; from there it's motorway all the way to M1 J38.
If there was a motorway link from Baildon to the M62 I'm sure I'd be able to get much better economy, but in the meantime i'm stuck with the slog from Baildon to the M62. It's only 11 miles but can take over an hour at worst in rush hour. And for those smart alecs who say "set off earlier", ok I could do that, but i'd only get to spend an extra half hour at work…

arse. work all day, then straight to gig in another town for soundcheck, not home until after polls close. If I want to vote I'll have to take half a day off. Unless the polling station opens before 7.15am

our cat likes these, but isn't interested in any other treats. He'll only eat cat food in jelly – cat food in gravy may as well go to the hedgehog sanctuary. Whiskas or Felix are both fine. Supermeat is off though

the previous pair both went crazy for chewy meaty stick things, but this fella won't touch them.

except ham sandwiches. ham sandwiches are a bigger no-no than almost anything not narcotic.

accidents have a way of being rather unfortunate – sad for those it happens to, and those they leave behind, but totally unpredictable.

drugs on the other hand… I feel for you, having also lost a friend about 5 or 6 years ago to a heroin overdose (the first time he'd ever tried it, apparently, although he'd been a habitual user of speed, coke, dope, acid, for about 20 years), but to be honest, if they're doing hard drugs, it's going to happen sooner or later…

don't be sad & down, celebrate the good things that made them friends. Yes, mourn their passing, but remember it comes to us all eventually.

Apache are fiery little feckers. Available now to grow as plants in 3in-4in pots from your local garden centre. They crop well too

there's usually something in the box; but Magix Movie Edit is pretty useable. I think it's £49.99 for the Pro version but I may be wrong

My rule of thumb is that if the arrogant self-important pompous little gizzards have in their wisdom deemed it to be shite.. then at least it will be a welcome diversion from the usual schmultz they bore us to death with…

hear hear

They said "Lost In Translation" was a good film.
I'll never get those two hours of my life back

music: http://www.myspace.com/wickeffect

r/c helicopters

Leeds United FC. Wheels have fallen off that one though :-(

used to play a bit of footie but I was never that good

Etap(e) near the bus station is supposed to be quite cheap – about £32 per room per night, room sleeps up to 3 IIRC. close enough to city centre too

all this nonsense over a silly joke.

get a sense of humour folks

here's another one.

Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish & Jesus sat by the Sea of Galilee.
Jesus walks out onto the surface of the lake and then back again. "Follow that" he says to Dalglish. "Nae bother" says Dalglish, and walks out onto the lake surface, does a bit of keepy uppy, then comes back.
"Your turn Kev" says Dalglish. Keegan walks out but the water just gets higher & higher up his legs, then his torso, but still he keeps going "I'll show them I'm no quitter" he splutters, as the water goes over his head

"Do you think we should tell him about the stepping stones?" Jesus asks Dalglish.
"What stepping stones" says Dalglish

I know, it's as old as the hills but then it is a joke

religion and anything to do with it is a load of old festering shyte.

on the same level of uselessness as wriggle & run.

;-)

never seen it, but "Quite possibly the Greatest Film Ever Made™"?

beauty is in the eye of the beholder, eh?

just had a Hobgoblin, now onto Tanglefoot. Yumm

the evidence for Jesus's life, death and resurrection is overwhelming, historically

really? as far as I remember, the Romans (who ruled what they called Judaea at the time) didn't say too much about him. Now, considering how anal they were about writing down everything so much as how many sacks of grain every small farmer sold at his local market, there are 2 possible answers to this:

1) he never existed
2) he was such a thorn in their sides they had to hush it all up

your choice folks.

While I'm open to the idea that there may or may not have been a preacher around at the time who annoyed the local powers somewhat, "son of god"?

of course, it's STW ;-)

did I mention that I'm also "agnostic"?

although I was christened in a little CofE church near Leeds, I do not (currently) believe in a god or gods, or sons of gods. So while I technically do have 2 "christian" names, I don't refer to them as such.

They are "forenames" and a "surname" or "family name". Why can't we call them this?

What's wrong with asking someone their 'first' name?

well my "first" name is Andrew. I don't use it, nor does anybody in my family when talking/referring to me. And it's common practice in the rest of my family to use one's "middle" name.
Mind you, if you knew what my uncle's 'first' name was, you'd understand ;-)

What really pisses me off, though, is people that don't know me call me by my "first" name because that's what they assume I'm known by. Don't assume, it leads to f*ck ups.

Especially those people that are trying to sell me something. "Mr Drummer to you please"

North America is indeed a very very very big place.
Mrs_drummer & I went to Canada last summer, also for a family wedding (my sister lives in darkest Alberta).

We spent 5 nights in Canmore, did the Banff/Lake Louise/Icefields Parkway thing. Then 2 nights in Calgary, which is only an hour or so from Canmore – hell, I commute for an hour or so each way every day just to get to work & back.

Then we did the road trip to Vancouver. If you look on the map, Calgary & Vancouver appear to be fairly close together, on a North American scale. However, what the map doesn't tell you, is that from Lake Louise to Kamloops, there's no such thing as a straight road… it took us about 7-8 hours, with rest stops. And the heat in Kamloops in early August was surprising, considering it's almost in the Rockies and a couple of thousand km further north than, say, SF/LA. 39degC!

Then the drive from Kamloops to Vancouver can take anything from 4-7 more hours depending whether you take the highway or the scenic route.

Now look at the map again and think, do you really want to do that in the midwest with a 1 year old in tow?

no reply yet AFAIK

take up trainspotting?

I know somebody who likes ukeleles. I'll see if he's interested

yep

even though you cheated us out of the European cup in '75, c'mon Bayern ;-)

go zorro, go

MOT

in a word, no.

Capital Punishment is not legal in the UK, nor should it be in any society, civilised or otherwise.

"an eye for an eye makes us all blind"

However, that does not mean that he should not be incarcerated for life – and I mean life – in barely humane conditions, even if only to protect the public from this monster; I doubt very much whether any sentence that is passed will contain much of a "rehabilitation" portion…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkTFo-AZysQ

my first 3 cars were white, but weren't exactly racy: Renault 5 mk1, Renault 5 mk2, Renault 19 (post facelift)

Next one was red – an Alfa 146.
Then a silver Alfa 156
then a black BMW 320d Touring
and now a black Saab 9-3 Sportwagon.

So clearly I don't GAS what anybody thinks ;-)

**** lilies. the pollen is deadly to cats

I got married there :-)

Langley Castle, near Hexham

vet NOW

we had a cat exhibiting some, but not all, of those symptoms about 2 years ago. Turns out he'd been in an RTA. No broken bones but serious internal bleeding. He didn't survive :(