Fecking iphone. If I try typing too fast, it throws a spaz and safari closes. If i type for too long it does the same. Completely pissing me off here. Mainly because you lose everything you've typed when it closes.

Jobs, I hope you burn in hell for this.

Except that lasers aren't focussed...

The aisles are too close together and you don't like the colours?

Not having enough to feed and clothe a family, not having a school or clinic to go to, not having the land on which to grow one’s food or a job to earn one’s living, not having access to credit. Insecurity, powerlessness, susceptibility to violence, no access to clean water or sanitation.

These are the conditions that billions of people on this planet live in.

You [LIFTED] pathetic useless [LIFTED].

Damn. I thought you were talking about the UK before I got to the next sentence.

Grrr....

Someone bought a Freeway Action today and immediately raised an issue with PayPal, literally within a couple of minutes of the payment coming through I got another email notifying me of the dispute. They logged it as an unauthorised payment. Of course, my server has sent an email to the customer telling him how to download the software - this is automated and I get a copy of the email so I know what’s going on.

So I’ve told PayPal that it’s electronically delivered, given them a copy of the email text and told them that it’s all automated. I’ve nothing more to add. The transaction has been suspended (so I’ve not been sent the moment). Just a bit pissed off, and I’d just set up a transfer of funds from that account to my bank account too. I hope PP don‘t decide to freeze the whole thing.

I use PayPal because it’s the cheapest (for me) way to get these small, and I’d say irregular, payments to me without me hitting the huge levies banks make to receive electronic payments.

PayPal do seem to be featured in quite a lot of rather small-scale $h!t of late. I imagine that at least some of the time it's not their fault, but them being the common element can't be pure coincidence.

Bloody Church of England!!!

I've got a synod meeting tomorrow where we have to approve (or otherwise) the new Anglican Communion Covenant. I needed to print it out (9 pages) except my black cartridge has run out. No problem - just highlight the text and change it to blue, right?

Wrong.

The document has been printed and then scanned and the resulting images pasted into a PDF and emailed to me. So I had to strip the images, colour swap them, paste them into a document and then print them.

Just send me the original document, 'tards!

New cars:
I was having a browse at the dealer's today (waiting for my new exhaust to be fitted, I don't need a new car) and got quite annoyed about something.
They seem to be linking engine size to trim level much more that they have done in the past. Previously you could almost have any engine option with any trim level (maybe an exception on sports models).
Example 1) Toyota IQ. Two engines available 1.0 and 1.33 ltr. But you can only have the 1.33 with the top level trim. That trim is vile to look at! The lower level trims look much better. There's no technical reason I can see for that, it's just a choice they've made to limit customer choice.
Example 2) Toyota Yaris. The 1.4 ltr diesel is only available with one of the four trim levels (a mid level trim for some reason). What use is that? If I was getting one of those I'd want the top trim level with the glass roof, but them I'd have to get a petrol one.

Seriously Toyota, you much be losing sales by doing this. Sort it Out!

I remember Ford started off doing almost the opposite.

They released the 1.6 D ECOnetic Focus - High MPG, low emissions and very low company car tax bracket - but it was only initially available in the standard LX trim and equipment package. I would have gone for it if I could have the Titanium equipment - the 2 litre was fun but unnecessary.

As a result, I didn't meet a single person within the company who opted for the ECOnetic, although plenty of people were put off for the same reason.

Fail

Close to killing a client today...

"I know I signed the designs off but it's my right to change my mind and you have to fix it" is pretty high up the list of stupidest things I have heard today along with complaints about the spelling/grammar in her copy that is in her website exactly as she provided it after complaining about us 'tweaking' her content

If only clients were like this...
http://www.impressivewebs.com/things-we ... would-say/

To be honest, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't - correct a client's grammar and spelling and you're accused of belittling or patronising them, don't correct it and you're accused of being sloppy and lacking attention to detail!! You can never win, don't even try to second-guess them!

I can imagine that's infuriating. Let them change their mind but charge them for it. It's akin to ordering a car with XYZ features and going to pick it up, then turning around and saying I want features AB. Tough titty IMO.

As for SPAG, perhaps have a disclaimer when they sign - either you correct any errors, or you don't. That way it can't fall back on you?

Absolutely Brilliant

It's a project that has ran for the best part of 2 years and now everyone is sick of each other, I've reworked key parts radically a number of times and time after time the client keeps coming back with meaningless comments, started playing people off against each other now and everyone is sick of it.

Dealing with that, another less than enjoyable client that I'm the only one with the skills/knowledge to work on the project (maintenance for another company) and 2 other projects (one of which I'm working blind pretty much on due to the fact that all people seem to care about is how it looks, not how they actually get paid...) I'm just getting sick of it all

I had to produce a couple of reports for a Director on the mainland.

I sent them off - two fair sized excel sheets - with the information broken down as he requested.

So he emails back and says thanks, that just what he needed, but can I convert them to word and print them both, side by side, on a single page?

Sure, if you want to read them with a fcuking magnifying glass.

FFS.