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proactivepaul

@proactivepaul@mastodon.social

Accountant, business coach, ex-teacher.

✔ Helping small businesses make more profit in less time.

Professional speaker, author, and committed geek, RDBMS, mySQL, PHP and a smattering of other coding languages.

#6amClub #runnersofmastodon #ukRunChat prefers 10K, has done a few half marathons and two full marathons (slowly)

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proactivepaul, to random
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amazon dot co dot uk has been flaky for the past hour

need stuff

finally made it to the place order button after one hour

And now the payment authentication tool is not working

I'll leave this until tomorrow

proactivepaul,
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same again now - Amazon flaky

I have just ordered masses of Lego (and a few other goodies) from Argos

we have hackathon prizes!

ppk, to random
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Do I know anyone who

organises hackathons?

Preferably not in German-speaking countries; we already have those.

proactivepaul,
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@ppk @jessie would love to help if I can - away in Japan for a few days - we should connect properly when I'm back

proactivepaul, to random
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was discussing "success" with a client today and introduced him to Simon Petley's comment:

“the reward for doing it has to be better than the reward for not doing it, otherwise people will simply not do it”

which explains why some of your staff behave the way they do . . .

I'm off home now, it's been an interesting day!

proactivepaul, to random
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Khan wins with a lead of XXX votes

that's what the Guardian has published just now

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/04/sadiq-khan-elected-london-mayor-for-third-term-in-further-boost-for-labour-susan-hall

simon, (edited ) to random
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As a rough estimate, how often do you navigate to a website or individual page by directly typing its URL (including browser URL bar autocomplete)?

proactivepaul,
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@simon

99% of the things I need are either on my private wiki or in my business CRM

the other 1% comes from the search tool in my browser - DDG

cannot remember the last time I typed a URL

proactivepaul, to random
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just had to share this from birdsite

Larry the Cat

@Number10cat

Thanks everyone, Rishi Sunak is crying and refusing to get changed out of his pyjamas. I hope you're happy with yourselves.

proactivepaul, to community
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imagine that I'm a year 1 undergrad

and big corporate tech bros are talking about:


or

or

what do they actually mean in the bigco tech sector sense of the word?

if you can give me any one or more definitions (that your average 18 year old student can understand) I would appreciate it

thx

proactivepaul,
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@airwhale that's really helpful, thanks

and I agree that these definitions are hard!

proactivepaul,
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@airwhale

exactly!

Hohl highlights the difference between “doing agile” and “being agile” and explains that “being agile means that the individual, the team, and the organization have changed”.

Hohl, P., Klünder, J., van Bennekum, A.et al. (2018) Back to the future: origins and directions of the “Agile Manifesto” – views of the originators Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development 6, 15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40411-018-0059-z (Accessed: 15 Mar 2022)

proactivepaul, to food
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Food or gloop? Why are so many people overweight?

And something about Fish and Chips as well!

https://www.dontreadmyblog.com/news/?p=396

proactivepaul, to Trains
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that will surely clinch it

"Labour promises rail nationalisation within five years of coming to power"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/24/labour-promises-rail-nationalisation-within-five-years-of-coming-to-power

Chrishallbeck, to random
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How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if it had a trebuchet?

proactivepaul,
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@Chrishallbeck a woodchuck would chuck all the wood it could chuck if a woodchuck had a trebuchet!

Chrishallbeck, to random
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Box of junk.

https://youtube.com/shorts/JBgOIOJFYa8

proactivepaul,
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@Chrishallbeck it's not true

well I mean it's not junk!

it might come in useful one day!

proactivepaul, to random
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@b0rk the reason I gave up on Git . . .

on page one of chapter one of some documentation (years ago) it started

the first thing you have to understand about Git is that it's not SVN

huh?

that's like trying to learn to ride a bike and your dad says

the first thing you have to understand about a bicycle is that it's not a horse

meaningless drivel

I did get to page 4 of the book before I gave up

I have a personal primitive versioning system that predates Git, and I still use it

Edent, to random
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UK friends - do you have an air conditioner?
If so, which one?
There are so many different options and I don't know how to choose!

Boosts, as ever, appreciated.

(UK replies only, thanks. Not interested in fans & ice-cubes. Will be run off solar power, so I'm comfortable with the energy usage. Yes, I hate having to ward off reply-guys with these long disclaimers.)

proactivepaul,
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@Edent @Mexicals Happy with my portable Inventor Cool (strong)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01GJONCMS/

would not buy Klarstein again (weaker)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00UZELTLU

they are both 6 years old now and are ripe for replacement

I'm looking at this (one step up from last time)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07JQJBJG7

proactivepaul, to Humor
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Eye halve a spelling chequer

It came with my pea sea

It plainly marques four my revue

Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word

And weight four it two say

Weather eye am wrong oar write

It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a misstate is maid

It nose bee fore two long

And eye can put the error rite

Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it

I am shore your pleased two no

Its letter perfect awl the weigh

My chequer tolled me sew.

proactivepaul, to random
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this evening helped the youngster on the next step of his job application

the acknowledgement screen said

"Thank you for your interest in joining the @company_name team"

Lee6, to running
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Warm up then a progressive stretch out for 3 miles - sexy negs 🏃‍♂️🩵

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proactivepaul,
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@NigelNotNeil @Lee6 when I lived in Geneva (for 3 years) all my runs were like that, everything slopes down to the lake, so even the flatest routes involved inclines

my apartment was at the top of 600m hill

perfect T junction - 3 ways in and out - the 3 options involved a 600m or 1000m or 1500m of incline from every direction

the sensible routes all went along the steep 600m one

sensible in all respects apart from that 600m !

proactivepaul, to books
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Can you claim back pre trade expenses?

Yes!

A brief run down of what you can and cannot claim.

https://www.proactive.ly/news/?p=564

proactivepaul, to Japan
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In Japan today is the first day of the academic year.

It also means that the fresh faced graduates from last month generally start work today.

It's also the first day at work for Princess Aiko of Japan.

This is a first! Never before has anybody from the Imperial family graduated and then started work!

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/01/japan/princess-aiko-joins-red-cross/

proactivepaul, to random
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first they came for the journalists . . .

and then we don't know what happened . . .

report on Police in China

https://www.economist.com/china/2024/03/21/even-chinas-own-state-media-sometimes-resent-state-control

proactivepaul, to random
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public service announcement

is your making a whining noise?

check Dyson and it says that's what they do when they get old, time for a new one

but no . .

here's a 2min video which has 3 secs of good advice

"change the filter"

being a sceptic I have tried to clean the filter and it's now hanging up to dry

is it really the filter?

try this . .

run your vac for 15 secs with no filter

has the whining stopped?

yep, it was the (dirty) filter!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0xKrSjXy1s

proactivepaul, to random
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What's this I hear about a tax rate of 60%?

https://www.proactive.ly/news/?p=230

proactivepaul, to random
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Swansea I am in you

and I have met the local mafia

beware - noisy 15 sec video

noisy seagulls

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