Archive for the ‘Work’ Category

Use Classes

Posted on Sunday 15th July 2007 under Work by

A full list of the use classes as defined in the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 can be found on the planning portal.

0870 Number research

Posted on Monday 25th June 2007 under Work by

I’m looking into 0870 numbers (or more generally non-geographical numbers) at the moment. Here is the short list:

Yac (£10-£20 per month depending on if we want to programme time specific forwards.)

BT themsleves  (£10/month, same price for revenue sharing on 0871)

UK2Numbers (One-off registration depending on number chosen)

The name game

Posted on Tuesday 12th June 2007 under Work by

Recently we have been trying to create a new company name – more on why later. I have used the following tools so far:

Anagram generator

Companies House WebCHeck

Unwanted domain names search

Demon InternetQuery Tools (including whois)

Google Map of VW TPS Locations

Posted on Monday 21st May 2007 under Work by

Google Map created for VW TPS locations: only pioneers and phase 1 included so far.

Sleep

Posted on Monday 14th May 2007 under Work by

Here is some DOS / NT CMD Script code to sleep for n seconds:
@echo off
echo Sleeping for 5 seconds
call :sleep 5
echo Done
goto :EOF
:sleep
:: This subroutine sleeps for n seconds
ping -n %1 127.0.0.1 > NUL 2>&1
goto :EOF

Steer clear of these 6 Persuasion Pitfalls

Posted on Thursday 1st March 2007 under Work by

Bytestart is carrying an article by Al Uszynski called “Steer clear of these 6 Persuasion Pitfalls“. It discusses negative language in the sales process and postivie or at least neutral alternatives. It makes me cringe to think of the number of times I have used, or been subject, to some of these.

POS forum

Posted on Thursday 22nd February 2007 under Work by

Various forums (fora?) I am watching…

Retail Systems Forum
Tek-Tips

EziForum Hardware 

Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder

Posted on Sunday 18th February 2007 under Work by

Another one of those utilities I use once in a blue moon, and then forget the name of; Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder – this is the Beta version, which works with Vista & Office 2007 too.

It’s free and it works, and if there are any other reasons for using it they escape me for the moment…

ASCII Characters

Posted on Wednesday 14th February 2007 under Work by

I have searched for (and used) an ASCII table so many times over the last few days, and I thought that it would be worth posting my own for convenience. Here it is, both as an Excel file and as text (below). Of course there is a man page for ASCII on Unix…

SAP DBM Help links

Posted on Tuesday 6th February 2007 under Work by

Here is a collection of links for DBM Ramp-UP v6:

IS-A-DBM v6 Help in English

IS-A-VMS  Help in English

Solution Manager 4.0 SP9

Ute Gramman’s old DBM overview (last page contains DBM v6 additional functionality)