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Lol, well it was actually appropriate as they spat on our door before I had handed them out. I guess they thought it was trick AND treat.

A couple of my inlaws do part time work at home for leapforce. I believe you can only do it from within the US, so it depends on where you live of course, but I've heard some good things about it. Like all companies that operate in this fashion, expect to dedicate an awful lot of time to it in order to earn anything close to a reasonable wage. They also expect you to be fairly internet savvy, and you have to take some tests before they will accept you.

Meh. We never seem to celebrate Halloween in this city anymore - the last time I had trick or treaters was about 5 years ago when I was on holiday out in the country. I miss giving chocolate dipped sprouts to the kids as they come knocking.

Most of them are automated, some using very complex programs to automatically get around common bot checking techniques (like captcha). The people that run the domains that are embedded within the spam either write the programs themselves or rent them out from other people. It must be financially worth doing otherwise we'd have seen an end to spam a long time ago.

Ah, but you see, you misread the question. It was speak/study, with the forward slash implying an "or" . And yes, I study them, or have done in the past. The only one I use any more on a regular basis is VBS.

Javascript, php, HTML, C++, VBS... oh, wait

Sounds like you just took googles business model :)

I came home from my mission early. I was told I couldn't serve a proselytising mission about 5 months before I was supposed to leave, because I have aspergers. But, there was the option of a service mission for 24 months, although it was my choice to take it or not as I had been honorably excused. This service mission was something invented by my stake president and bishop, along with the temple president, to work in the temple full time, living in temple grounds, for 24 months. I also had a companion who had ADHD, and was also told he couldn't serve a proselytising mission. Because there were only 2 of us on our mission, we were to be companions for 24 months. This is one of the reasons salt lake did not approve the mission, but we didn't receive notice of this until after we had started, so our leaders were told we were to complete it, but it wasn't to happen again. The two of us didn't get on with each other from day one, and our companionship deteriorated as each day went by. 10 months in, I felt I would go insane if I had to spend another minute of living or working with this guy, and having no other option (I'd tried speaking to the temple president and my bishop dozens of times with no answer other than to carry on) I left and went home. In hindsight, I still don't regret the decision I made to do that and feel that I am better off for it. I felt the same way as I'm sure this guy you're referring to feels now, being silently (and sometimes not so silently) judged by everyone around me. I still feel like that, although I've matured enough to the point that it doesn't bother me anymore, and hasn't for a while. The ironic thing is, if I hadn't bothered to go at all due to the fact that I was honourably excused, no-one would have had this negative opinion of me. They did have a negative option of me because I actually tried, and took the only option I was given (other than not going), and then found it almost impossible to continue almost half way through. Sometimes, you don't see the full picture. I'm quite lucky really that my wife is a little more open minded than some others.

Some quick advice for the future: If losing something on your computer would upset you, always back it up. I know from countless situations ive been involved in or witnessed that resolving problems caused by a disaster go far more smoothly if data was being sufficiently backed up before everything went wrong. When it comes to storing information on a computer, bear in mind that the medium it's stored on is, without a doubt, going to fail at some point. In this instance, without professional (and expensive) help, you'll lose everything stored on it, not just bookmarks and passwords.

Browsers can be installed and run concurrently. No need to uninstall chrome. Just go to start menu and use the search feature to find internet explorer if it's not on your desktop or in the start menu.

Having six months maternity leave (ordinary) and 12 months extended here leaves it wide open for abuse... and it does get abused by a minority. Back in our school days we had a geography teacher that we only saw for a few months at any one time because of this. She had three kids during the time we were there, with a full year off with time.

Iggy, simply for diagnostics purposes, try a different browser and see if you get the same issue. At least we can narrow down the problem then, as has correctly been pointed out, something like this can be caused by a wide range of issues, some more likely than others. Internet explorer will be installed on your computer, so you don't have to install any other browser.

Just a half dozen? I wish my life was so easy You mean hops?

In the UK maternity leave is 6 months ordinary, which is on full pay. The employee then has the option of taking an additional six months if they so desire, but I think this latter 6 months is on reduced pay. I think paternity leave is two weeks on full pay.

I think I'm going to have to watch it merely out of curiosity now. Depending on who you talk to, they were either fantastic or terrible, I'm not sure how so many people can be divided on a subject like this. It might also be worth seeing it from the different broadcasters.

I must be the only person in the UK (and the USA) that didn't watch any of the olympics, other than about 10 minutes that I saw on NBC in passing when walking through someones house, but I wasn't really watching (BTW, can I just say that the sheer quantity of adverts on American TV is shocking... can't help but appreciate the BBC and helps me to understand why we pay a TV license in the UK). I read in the paper this morning on the way to work that 90% of the UK watched the olympics, and in the US it was the most watched televised event in US history.

I don't know anything about your situation other than what you've posted here, but I personally would probably just send a quick informational e-mail telling the director about the mistake you made with regards to leaving early and the lead tech not being informed, explain why it happened, and leave it at that. Don't give any other information. If she complains to the director, the director already knows about your version of what happened in that instance. Following on from this, make a written note (with time and date) of everything this co-worker says negatively to you, or about you, and also a quick note of your perspective of what happened. Most of the time, threats to talk to the manager are empty, and never actually materialise. On the off chance it does, you have a list of complaints she has made, and your responses to them already written out. If it gets really bad (to the point of workplace bullying), this written list will also prove useful as you will then need to make a complaint about her and provide evidence.

This is why I usually insist on e-mail communication when at work, as opposed to over the phone. It's to cover my own back, especially when people say something but later claim that they didn't. I haven't deleted anything for over 6 years, whether work related or personal and it has saved my skin a few times. I would not recommend sending those e-mails either. You make multiple accusations that you need to be prepared to back up with evidence if you send them. You also appear to contradict yourself slightly by claiming it was unintentional that you didn't tell her you had to leave early, then in the next sentence, you say it's true that you have been keeping your distance? I also definitely wouldn't send them now they have been posted in a public forum. It only takes one of the two recipients to google some of the text of the e-mail to find this forum (and managers are doing this kind of thing more and more often as they realise their employees often vent their true opinions of their workplace online). As an example: "Tina, last week you came to me and expressed concern that I was not communicating with you" - Google Search

Well, there are a lot of different theories flying around, one of which is that your breath coated the metal contacts in a thin layer of saliva which helped increase conductivity between two sets of metal contacts which were suffering from wear and tear. This, of course, would make the problem worse in the long term as your saliva would help the metal corrode. There did appear to be some sort of manufacturer defect though, as so many of us had these issues that encouraged us to blow into them in the first place. I think I still have a SNES lying around somewhere in a family members house. I might get it out some day

Anyone else remember blowing fiercely into their game cartridges when the SNES couldn't read the data off the cartridge? Blowing into it (a common belief at the time was that it removed any dust off the metal contacts) always seemed to fix it

I really wish it was

I suspected it was that, but the idea of making certain articles only available to one country seemed silly seeing as the blogs and forums that link to these articles will be accessible worldwide. It's certainly the first time I've come across this with news articles. Oh well. I'll have to access it via Shannon's computer

Am I the only one that gets a video about Libya instead?

The tone of this implies that the manager is incapable of doing his job properly due to a fault of his own (i.e. in this case, forgetfulness), so need unofficial guidence and support from the contractor (i.e. yourself) to aid him in doing his job, which I think is a dangerous assumption to make. It sounds very much to me like the manager in question in this instance is simply overwhelmed with work, probably due to no fault of his own. It can get to the point where no matter what work-management style you use, unless you can fit more than 24 hours in a day, there is always going to be jobs that needed to be done that day, still not done at the end of the day. Something has to give somewhere. From the perspective of the contractor, the manager isn't giving them what they need to do the single project they are working on that day, so clearly the manager isn't doing their job. From the perspective of the manager, that contractor that was bought in by their superiors, but without telling the manager this was happening until the contractor arrives, is one of 100 issues they are trying to deal with that day. Whilst they may successfully deal with 95 of the issues, the contractor is unfortunately one of those 5 that time simply didn't permit for.

As for people preferring to text than talk vocally, I can completely understand this. I don't find it inefficient at all. I also prefer e-mail to talking vocally, so become fairly irritated when someone phones me back in response to an e-mail I sent to them. The reason I prefer these methods of communication is so I can refer back to them when I need to. With data storage being as cheap as it is, there is no reason to delete anything nowadays, especially text. So I can refer back to something that was sent to me 3 years ago if necessary - not something you can do with a vocal conversation. Sometimes it's easy to miss important snippets of information during vocal conversations, and sometimes you subconsciously change the exact wording the person used in your mind. With text messages and e-mails, the ability to refer back to them solves this problem. I find this especially useful at work.