Beating the (New Year) Blues - Tuesday 5th January 2010

Organise events to meet up and drink Port.

Which date is preferred?

Tuesday 5th January
5
36%
Wednesday 6th January
4
29%
Thursday 7th January
3
21%
Friday 8th January
2
14%
 
Total votes: 14

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Alex Bridgeman
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Re: Beating the (New Year) Blues - Tuesday 5th January 2010

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jdaw1 wrote:”“AHB (and get yourself well);
I'm working on it. Still feeling extremely rough but today is the first day in 5 when I have woken and felt better than the previous morning (albeit marginally). I can understand why there was concern at this version of 'flu. It is nasty.
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Re: Beating the (New Year) Blues - Tuesday 5th January 2010

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Well, I’m pleased that you’re heading upwards at least.
AHB wrote:'flu
You’re well enough to correctly apostrophise the contraction of influenza, so you can’t be too bad. Even I, sloppily, allow the apostrophe-free version.
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Re: Beating the (New Year) Blues - Tuesday 5th January 2010

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Hi Alex,

again whish you a speedy recovery. Hope you can make it.

Julian,

Cookies port will be a Noval 1985.

regards

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Re: Beating the (New Year) Blues - Tuesday 5th January 2010

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Updated www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100105.pdf.
  • +N85.
Those attending should agree who is to print the placemats. Choose somebody likely to be punctual. That chosen person should read the following instructions.
The Manual wrote:! print the mats using a toner printer.
  • Ensure that ‟No automatic page scaling” (or equivalent) is checked in the print dialogue box. (Automatic page scaling can be very wrong, scaling to invisible and irrelevant artefacts in the PDF.)
  • On some Konica Minolta printers, and perhaps others, checking ‟Choose paper size by PDF page size” means the output is very small, a mirror image, and on paper of the wrong size. This is not good. On other printers this setting can be useful experiment as necessary.
  • If printing on a Mac from the Preview application, and perhaps also with other operating systems or applications, set the paper size to the ‟(borderless)” variant.
  • Print single-sided obviously duplex wouldn’t work.
  • Use toner not ink, as a single drop of wine or water causes ink to smudge. !
  • Print onto brilliant white paper of the correct size !
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Re: Beating the (New Year) Blues - Tuesday 5th January 2010

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WS1 wrote:
is the event still in the schedule of the crustimg pipe? Is anything reserved etc.?
Just to confirm I have booked the "boardroom" for tomorrow from 6.30pm onwards. I believe we are now 4 but I guess we shall just have to see who turns up!

I shall take responsibility for placemats. JDAW1 - if you are still able to do so, mark me down for a OBV70.

Ben
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Re: Beating the (New Year) Blues - Tuesday 5th January 2010

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Updated www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100105.pdf.
  • +O70.
The Manual wrote:! print the mats using a toner printer.
  • Ensure that ‟No automatic page scaling” (or equivalent) is checked in the print dialogue box. (Automatic page scaling can be very wrong, scaling to invisible and irrelevant artefacts in the PDF.)
  • On some Konica Minolta printers, and perhaps others, checking ‟Choose paper size by PDF page size” means the output is very small, a mirror image, and on paper of the wrong size. This is not good. On other printers this setting can be useful experiment as necessary.
  • If printing on a Mac from the Preview application, and perhaps also with other operating systems or applications, set the paper size to the ‟(borderless)” variant.
  • Print single-sided obviously duplex wouldn’t work.
  • Use toner not ink, as a single drop of wine or water causes ink to smudge. !
  • Print onto brilliant white paper of the correct size !
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Re: Beating the (New Year) Blues - Tuesday 5th January 2010

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jdaw1 wrote:Updated www.jdawiseman.com/port/20100105.pdf.
  • +O70.
The Manual wrote:! print the mats using a toner printer.
  • Ensure that ‟No automatic page scaling” (or equivalent) is checked in the print dialogue box. (Automatic page scaling can be very wrong, scaling to invisible and irrelevant artefacts in the PDF.)
  • On some Konica Minolta printers, and perhaps others, checking ‟Choose paper size by PDF page size” means the output is very small, a mirror image, and on paper of the wrong size. This is not good. On other printers this setting can be useful experiment as necessary.
  • If printing on a Mac from the Preview application, and perhaps also with other operating systems or applications, set the paper size to the ‟(borderless)” variant.
  • Print single-sided obviously duplex wouldn’t work.
  • Use toner not ink, as a single drop of wine or water causes ink to smudge. !
  • Print onto brilliant white paper of the correct size !
Above translates as "Hit print and hope" - it worked fine on printer here!
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Re: Beating the (New Year) Blues - Tuesday 5th January 2010

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Review notes posted here.
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