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This Is A More Appropriate Dining Option^
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein |
| "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert |
| "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Do you have a picture of him, in his better days of course? How big was he?
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Raphael S. Jaffee
??? - Feb 2013
He shell was ca. 7" long by 6" wide
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein |
| "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert |
| "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Very handsome turtle. Sounds like he will be missed by many.
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I used to have a turtle like that. We named him Klaus, after the Scorpions singer.
They're neat pets.
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Hi,
I know how it feels when an old friend passes away, I'm still devastated by the loss of my Boerboel Dog Temba in mid January this year and the title of your post "An Empty Spot" describes exactly how it feels here in my house just two meters away on the old sofa Temba occupied, snoring, watching me to find out if I was ready to do an other walk around the neighbourhood.
Thanks for sharing 
With friendly greetings, 
Eric Goedhart
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I told you last year I don't want to be in your club, please stop writing to me!
Just got a frogging demand for £400+, that'll be added to my tax code for next year. Assuming I work , that comes out at about £30-40 a month down. However this tax year I am about £2,000 over paid to Ian, guess how long that'll take to get back.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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Five or six years.
Or even shorter if you believe the emails I keep getting from them! 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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You think that's bad. Here in Maryland, USA they have told me that back in 2003 I failed to pay them their taxes (I did but they have no record of it and it was so long ago after two house moves I have no record either except for the agency prepared tax return). It was for about $1900 but they have estimated (since they didn't have my return and the previous year was a good one for me - the last good one) it was about $5800 to which they have added fines and accumulated interest for ten years and so have so far taken over $20,000 out of various refunds (including $10,000 for the federal IRS) and still want more. They refuse to let me pay for my car tax until I have paid this so I can't use my car and the state will refuse to renew my driver's licence until I have paid - and they won't tell tell me how much I have to pay! I get a series of letters just saying please pay the "arrears" but never actually saying how much - even though however much is too much and they actually should owe me! Since it is now ten years ago I cannot even file the tax return showing the actual $1900 amount that they have already got through their foul means.
Any good jobs going in the UK at the moment?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Hi there,
So far as I can tell, graphics/web/advert designers are expensive, slow and hard to work with. Trying to create high quality ads is just painful: You can spend weeks waiting, re-designing and shelling out money before you get what you want and that may be fine once (it may even be fine twice if you're in a big company with a big budget), but what if you're a small to medium business? So here are my quick questions (just a bit of research):
Would you use a graphics/web/marketing designer?
If not, why not? (e.g. too expensive, too slow etc.)
If you could do it yourself, easily and cheaply, would you?
Just interested,
Ed
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Ed Nutting wrote: Would you use a graphics/web/marketing designer?
Yes, because I'm a software architect not a graphic designer. While both are "arts", the medium is quite different, and when it comes to graphics, I have no skill. For example, I quite enjoyed and learned a few things when I came across the Insider's post about 16x16 pixel art. Very cool, but at the end of the day, I'm the guy who uses the icon, not creates it.
Ed Nutting wrote: If you could do it yourself, easily and cheaply, would you?
Of course. But then I'd be a graphics designer, and I would charge you the big bucks for making cool art.
Marc
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A good graphics designer can do it better and faster, so he'll always save you money.
If you work external bureau and they're only used to create add's for magazines, then they don't know what you expect and you have to explain them everything; that's when it'll get timely, costly and frustrating.
That's why it's crucial that you make sure that the designer you hire is qualified to design for the web. Someone who can only draw pretty pictures in Photoshop is not enough.
The bare minimum is someone who delivers the graphics in the correct size (and multiple sizes for a responsive website), has a basic understanding of how webpages work (especially how to slice) and use fonts that are proven to display correctly with all the supported browsers.
The best web designers are the ones who can create a "developer kit", containing a static responsive template that always meets the standards of a professional website of today (and not last year).
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My fiancee does front end development. One of the biggest struggles she has had with starting her own business of it is finding an affordable, reliable graphic designer. She is literally sitting on a website bid, but might pass it by for lack of trustworthy designer.
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Whether or not I used a graphics designer would depend entirely on the nature of what I wanted to advertise (the product), an analysis of the competitors in the market segment in which my "product" would compete (how they advertise), the selected media I planned to advertise in (print, web, video), and a careful consideration of who the "target customer" is, and (not least), my budget.
In this "arena," I do not believe there are any "one-size fits-all" guidelines.
yours, Bill (yes, I have done graphic design for commercial marketing)
This thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.
Abu Yazid Al-Bistami (Persian, Sufi, 804-872)
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One of my mates company outsourced redevelopment of their site to the external company. The site contains around 2k articles and it's very old site and is pretty much static.
Now the guys who are re-developing it saying - "they can migrate the data(static to db) easily (by writing a script that reads web page and copies the content) but they need to format each article and for this they are asking like crazy amount." I am sure, there must be an easy way to format the page, may be by creating templates etc.
What do you think? Is there a better solution. They don't want them to format each page manually. This will cost them fortune.
Thanks
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Without a damn good explanation of why they need to reformat the pages, it sounds like a good way for them to make more money. Without the aforementioned "damn good" explanation, I'd consider this little request of theirs a good reason to look elsewhere for the services.*
* As a hurricane Sandy refugee, I'm all too familiar with contractors** of all sorts exploiting the situation if not committing fraud, outright.
** I'm a contractor and so this isn't an anti-contractor micro-rant.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein |
| "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert |
| "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It depends.
Iff the original site is semantically sound and the outsourcer's software is well written then they should be able to scrape the site without much fuss.
[Edit]
Though I agree with Balboos's to an extent, my first thought was it sounds like a good way to squeeze more money out of the contract.
You could suggest an intermediate interpreter, one that auto-fudges from the original site content into the format acceptable to the outsourcing system. I'd even suggest something like PERL to do this as it handles this sort of stuff quite well in my experience. This would rely on how well written the original site is, if it isn't well done it might even be easier to sort manually.
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AndyInUK wrote: What do you think? Is there a better solution. They don't want them to format
each page manually. This will cost them fortune.
I wouldn't allow them to proceed until they provided a detailed breakdown of the costs, and what your friend wants out of the redevelopment. We can't give you a better answer than "it depends".
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Better late than never: I just read in a Swedish newsflash that Peter Gilmore who starred as James Onedin in the classic 70's tv series "The Onedin Line" died on the 3rd of February, 81 years old.
I have a lot of fond memories of that series, especially of Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass (who was unfortunately killed off very early in the series) and not to mention Howard Lang as the faithful but slightly dimwitted Captain Baines.
So once again: RIP Peter.
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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He was in quite a few of the Carry On films too.
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Wasn't there a seaman Staines in it too?
"The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise."
Matthew Faithfull
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I think you're confusing it with "Paris Hilton on the seven seas"
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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I googled that and got Perez Hilton instead. 
That wasn't an improvement.
"The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise."
Matthew Faithfull
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I guess it depends on your preferences, but I'm enclined to agree with you...
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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I think that was a myth about Captain Pugwash - Roger The Cabin Boy too
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