Hi all, Well as mentioned in an earlier post, I've had family from interstate and overseas visiting for the last two weeks. In about 15 minutes a taxi will be...
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grenouille
grenouille7777
Apr 14, 2012 9:07 pm
Have a great and safe trip, Brian. If you see anybody's missing muses partying there, tie 'em up and ship 'em home, would ya<cheeky grin>? Mike ... More than...
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Brian64
bjdibbins
May 2, 2012 11:53 am
Hi all, One of the people I know through my work is a published author, and we got to talking about fanfiction, and eventually, ToP. To cut a long story short,...
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Thoughts_of_Pudding@y...
May 2, 2012 11:53 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Thoughts_of_Pudding group. File :...
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Ralph S.
ralph_sch
May 3, 2012 12:19 am
Dear Annette, first of all, kudos for being descriptive - something that, sadly, seems a bit lacking in the world of fanfiction as everyone just wants their ...
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Brian64
bjdibbins
May 3, 2012 12:46 pm
Thanks Ralph, It's my fault about the spelling problems.. I edited the file for Annette - and then uploaded her original anyway! LOL. One of the downsides of...
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Brian64
bjdibbins
May 3, 2012 12:52 pm
Hi all, I've been back from Bali for a week now, and the first few days were spent just catching up and getting over the jet lag caused by flights on...
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Ralph S.
ralph_sch
May 3, 2012 3:16 pm
Tell me about it. Consider yourself lucky it's not a flash based website. Yet. :o) - As for the captchas, ironically enough, they're there to help Google ...
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grenouille
grenouille7777
May 3, 2012 5:42 pm
FFN is using captchas at every login now, instead of only when you screw up. Bloody annoying. At least they gave you a seven day login option instead of the...
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Ralph S.
ralph_sch
May 3, 2012 7:11 pm
Ah, that explains it. I only log on to ffn when I need to - say to review something - and that's rare. Looks like Google is getting desperate for more data -...
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Brian64
bjdibbins
May 3, 2012 9:27 pm
Hi Ralph, The captchas are required for fanfiction.net logins from 27th April. Annette is intending to write some fanfics... :) Brian...
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Alan
alan.williams54
May 3, 2012 9:30 pm
So I have to ask. What is a Tendering process? I think of tendering as hitting a bad piece of meat with a hammer in the forlorn hope that it will see the...
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Brian64
bjdibbins
May 3, 2012 9:51 pm
Hi Alan, Employment services in Australia are delivered by organisations that are contracted to the Government, and these contracts are generally for three...
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Ciarán Boyle
boyle.ciaran@...
May 3, 2012 9:53 pm
tendering is a process of bidding for contracts I don't know what type of business Brian is in but it is usually a stressful time since three or four years of...
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Alan
alan.williams54
May 4, 2012 3:32 am
Thanks you both for the answer. Makes me half glad I work for a utility....
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Brian64
bjdibbins
May 4, 2012 8:16 am
Well, we've privatised utilities here in South Australia as well.. The Australian government used to run the Commonwealth Employment Service (where I worked...
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Brian64
bjdibbins
May 5, 2012 12:13 am
Hi Ralph, I received a reply to your review from Annette: "I was very appreciative of Ralph's comments. At least he didn't say my effort was rubbish, so...
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Brian64
bjdibbins
May 13, 2012 6:32 am
Hi all, I need to have a rant, and figure I can get away with it in here - even if it has only a passing relation to Thoughts of Pudding. Eg, this is one of...
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horace.nihil
May 13, 2012 11:24 am
... Yeah, "Cheers", indeed. ... I've a 6+ year old desktop running XP at home, and it's really getting slow and unable to run (sometimes install) newest...
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Cheral Rallock
snugglekitte...
May 14, 2012 9:02 am
And the reason you don't backup your data is...? All my WiPs and anything I care about is on a minimum of two removable drives and flash media as well. I have...
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chris_vampireman_jones
chris_vampir...
May 14, 2012 2:04 pm
Depending on where you live in the world .. the costs of replacing a desktop isnt very high (from £204GPB). As long as you dont have to buy an operating...
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Ralph S.
ralph_sch
May 14, 2012 2:24 pm
... That sounds like a hard disk problem. Installing a new one should work wonders. Note bene: Buying used hard disks is a waste of money in almost all cases....
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Brian64
bjdibbins
Jul 22, 2012 9:28 pm
Hi all, I had a PM from a member mentioning they hadn't heard from me for a while, and figured since I'd written the response, I might as well post the details...
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madwolfric
Jul 22, 2012 9:38 pm
Wow, if it were'nt for bad luck you'd have no luck at all! I hope it all settles out in your favor and you get to feeling better. W....
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grenouille
grenouille7777
Jul 22, 2012 9:40 pm
Good to hear from you, Brian. Glad that you're on the mend and I'm sorry that RL has decided to dump on you. Really sucks when you're more qualified than your...
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Tommy King
tumshie1960
Jul 22, 2012 10:54 pm
Hope you get some relative sanity back in your life soon. Â Tommy British by birth, Scottish by the grace of God www.stopthetraffik.org ... Hope you get some...
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Evan Mayerle
elmayerle
Jul 23, 2012 12:41 am
Man, I can feel for you and appreciate your situation. Â I just got transferred to a "hot" program where I work and the "Powers That Be" have afflicted us with...
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Brian64
bjdibbins
Oct 17, 2012 8:23 pm
Hi guys, Just to head off any possible posts about spam, I'll just mention that all new accounts in this group start off moderated, and revert to unmoderated...
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chichi
chichi_90504
May 16, 2013 1:42 pm
and noticed that PerfesserN hasn't posted anything new in a few years anyone know if he's still alive? or has he just moved to a site i havn't found yet?...
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red jacobson
red_jacobson
May 16, 2013 1:45 pm
Unfortunately Norman Wood, aka PerfesserN died back in June of 2010. Red ... -- For updates on my writing, follow me on twitter @red_jacobson...
