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Post by MikeMusic on May 15, 2024 9:47:35 GMT
There are terrible things happening there, Mike. Another reason for me going vegan I was a 'dumb', moral vegetarian for years until I discovered how grim the dairy industry is. Health bonus I hadn't even thought about is the massive reduction in breathing problems and general snottiness. Thinking about it I have probably eliminated headaches as well |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 15, 2024 9:36:10 GMT
King's Birthday Honours
Stepson awarded an OBE
The Boss is very proud of her little boy
Me too. He is a good bloke
The honours system ?
In his case and many others there it is merit and came as a complete surprise to him
I now differentiate between the King's list and the grubby politicians
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Post by Slinger on Jun 28, 2024 16:17:56 GMT
From "Sophie Socket" on Twitter
"Taylor Swift has donated enough money to cover the food bills for an entire year across 11 food banks and 8 community pantries in Liverpool alone.
She has done this for every city she's toured in yet she's regularly criticised because people don't like her music. I’m no ‘Swifty’ but she seems like a decent person."
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Post by Slinger on Jul 3, 2024 18:57:44 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 17, 2024 11:14:23 GMT
Yes Yes Yes!!
"Adele says she will take a 'big break' from music"
Please let it be years not months.
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Post by petea on Jul 17, 2024 12:57:14 GMT
When did she start?!  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 2, 2024 16:14:06 GMT
Daughter of a close friend of the boss was diagnosed with breast cancer. Serious and life threatening
Today we heard that the tumour has almost disappeared after brand new type of treatment
The people taking the pics are staggered
Hopefully this can be made public for all very quickly - and will work as effectively
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Post by Slinger on Aug 4, 2024 13:53:25 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Aug 5, 2024 15:52:49 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 5, 2024 8:49:42 GMT
Computers and software can be helpful !
Starting with LPs, adding CDs then notes on artists and albums my Records.dbf was wonderful courtesy of the even wonderfuller FoxPro for Dos
Fox was such a well written programme that it already had Y2K compatibility around 10-15 years before most people even thought about it
Fox dbf files can be opened in Excel, which was very useful when my old PC crashed.
Couldn't use Fox but I could access (pun) the data on my new to me laptop with Excel built in
Anyway, (you still there ?)
My latest laptop don't have no Excel so I thought I would go back to the old laptop to access
Hang on
If I email it to myself I could open it with OpenOffice or similar.
Hang on
Here it is, what if I just try to open it ?
Ahahaha
There it is
That was easy, just needed the mindset
Now to work out how to change the order via different fields
I am the bunny of happiness
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Post by Slinger on Sept 5, 2024 14:47:51 GMT
Visual FoxPro was the mutt's nuts too, Mike, when it went all Wiindowsy. I built whole Windows applications with it, and had it doing stuff I'm sure it wasn't meant to.  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 5, 2024 14:55:37 GMT
I started with dBase II and a broken set of programmes on an Epson twin floppy machine
Worked my way through FoxPlus, FoxPro, lightning fast in DesQview and a Dos window in Windows
Won Visual FoxPro at a Microsoft do but never got around to using it as all the advice I had was that I had to turn into a hair shirt developer
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Post by Slinger on Sept 5, 2024 15:25:13 GMT
My approach was as a complete outsider. I bought it originally when I bought my first PC in the early nineties simply because it looked like a good project to learn it, but I never got around to using it until I got my first IT job a couple of years later. Basically, I saw something that I thought would be useful, and then, via the manual(s) mostly, I learned how to make FoxPro do it. I did that while I was still teaching myself to code in SQL and the bits of SCO Unix I needed too. It was fun, in a very masochistic sort of way.  Oh, and I already wrote HTML but had to pick up some JavaScript when I needed it too. I was a real glutton for punishment, but all of that more or less became my job as opposed to what I was originally employed for, which was as a junior IT dogsbody. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 5, 2024 15:31:10 GMT
Fox was as far as I got. SQL in Fox was pure magic. A friend wrote a little for me and I used it elsewhere, cut, paste and tweak, but never grasped what on earth was going on - so Black Magic then  |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 5, 2024 20:44:08 GMT
I started with Borland and moved on to Access. As late as 1996 or so, we had an Access application being used to consolidate sales data from all the European countries running at Xerox.
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 12, 2024 20:24:37 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Sept 12, 2024 20:35:59 GMT
Jon Bon Jovi makes some pretty dull tunes these days but did a stellar job with this situation - Yes, I read about that this morning. Good work! |
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 24, 2024 15:46:13 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Nov 24, 2024 16:20:44 GMT
I love it when you're cutting, Jules! |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 25, 2024 8:38:46 GMT
Spain fines budget airlines including Ryanair €179mSpain has fined five budget airlines a total of €179m (£149m) for "abusive practices" including charging for hand luggage. Ryanair has been given the largest fine of €108m (£90m), followed by EasyJet's penalty of €29m (£24m). Vueling, Norwegian and Volotea were issued with sanctions by Spain's Consumer Rights Ministry on Friday. The ministry said it plans to ban practices such as charging extra for carry-on hand luggage and reserving seats for children. The fines are the biggest sanction issued by the ministry, and follow an investigation into the budget airline industry. www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jy2dpv722oGood, it's about time the budget airlines are given notice that their practices are unacceptable.
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Oh, and I already wrote HTML but had to pick up some JavaScript when I needed it too. 
