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At 6 minutes to midnight, gold bullion might be a good idea for savings.
timwhit
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Sol
Storage is cool
I've seen it done on quite a lot of professional art work (especially smaller pieces) and it looks fine. (My father is an artist so I got dragged around a lot of art galleries as a child)
If you do a google image search for "framed lino prints" for example the majority of them are framed with either a backing sheet or a front sheet with a smaller rectangle cut out of it for the actual art.
You might struggle to get quality backing/fronting material and a frame within your budget though since you'd need to use pretty high quality rigid card. (Wrinkles would look like arse)
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
The cardboard is called matting.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Fact of life #1 : You need a web site when you run a computer shop.
Fact of life #2 : It's very hard for a non-programmer to create a web site, alone.
Fact of life #3 : It can be quite expensive to hire someone to build a web site for you.
Fact #3 is the reason behind fact #2. I hope to have results before I go to bed tonight. I use CoffeeCup. I know Frontpage exist, but I also know why Frontpage is loathed. No matter how dumb a programmer I can be, I refuse to use it. I'll test the output from CoffeeCup in Firefox, Opera and Chrome. If I find a bucket I can vomit in, I'll even test it in IE.
I'm a great computer hardware guy, but the software part is not my cup of tea (except virus cleaning, OS tweaking). Someone I know and trust advised me to use Dreamweaver, but I prefer to try a free editor before trying one that you have to pay for. Althought I'm sure I wouldn't have to pay for it (must be available in the MSDN subscribers account I have).
Fact of life #2 : It's very hard for a non-programmer to create a web site, alone.
Fact of life #3 : It can be quite expensive to hire someone to build a web site for you.
Fact #3 is the reason behind fact #2. I hope to have results before I go to bed tonight. I use CoffeeCup. I know Frontpage exist, but I also know why Frontpage is loathed. No matter how dumb a programmer I can be, I refuse to use it. I'll test the output from CoffeeCup in Firefox, Opera and Chrome. If I find a bucket I can vomit in, I'll even test it in IE.
I'm a great computer hardware guy, but the software part is not my cup of tea (except virus cleaning, OS tweaking). Someone I know and trust advised me to use Dreamweaver, but I prefer to try a free editor before trying one that you have to pay for. Althought I'm sure I wouldn't have to pay for it (must be available in the MSDN subscribers account I have).
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Yes, some people stopped worrying about it decades ago. And they haven't worried about much since.
ddrueding
Fixture
Dreamweaver is like Frontpage with half the suck removed. You can use it if you need to without getting ill, but it's best to be avoided.
You don't need a complex website. What are your requirements? Are you looking for a basic informational site or an online sales opportunity? Could you get by with a CMS for the short term? Maybe something like drupal?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Just a basic informational site. I want to show items on sale and the available used computers. Business hours, contact informations and price list. The usual for a computer store. I do not want to sell stuff via the web site (no online orders). I don't have the structure to support this.
I'll take a look at Drupal. I greatly under-estimated the task I have to do to create the web site. I only have the frame done and I still have a few issues. I guess I know what I'll do this week-end.
Thanks.
I'll take a look at Drupal. I greatly under-estimated the task I have to do to create the web site. I only have the frame done and I still have a few issues. I guess I know what I'll do this week-end.
Thanks.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
ddrueding
Fixture
I'd like to thank our fearless leader for 8k+ very appreciated and useful posts.
Congrats!
Congrats!
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
It's 3h40am Monday morning and I can't sleep. For the same reason as usual : money. I've had money problems in my life for the past ten years. I've never been bankrupt and I've often been close to succeed to dig myself out of the hole, but never managed to do it for good. This week is also going to be like that. I have much more hope to make it through than I did last Monday (it was a miracle I did it), but I'll walk on a thin line...again. If only there was no hope, I would just say "screw that" and let it all go, but my situation isn't desperate and I think it's poisoning my life more because of that. All that pressure that I constantly live with is probably killing me somehow. Maybe I'm developping a cancer or it's mining my heart or increasing my blood pressure and making me more vulnerable to a brain aneurysm. I don't need to be a doctor to know that long-term effects of a stressful life can't be good for my health.
For tonight, it's only causing insomnia. Ten years from now, I don't know what it will cause me, if I'm still there. I only hope it's worth it and that I keep fighting for a better future. I'm really due to win at the lottery, which is improbable because I don't buy tickets.
For tonight, it's only causing insomnia. Ten years from now, I don't know what it will cause me, if I'm still there. I only hope it's worth it and that I keep fighting for a better future. I'm really due to win at the lottery, which is improbable because I don't buy tickets.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Oh yeah, congratulations to Handruin for the 8K posts, but even more so for maintaining the forum long enough to reach that number. I would really like to help, but I don't have the knowledge to maintain a complex web site or the means to harbor it.
DrunkenBastard
Storage is cool
Fridays are my favourite date. Because they don't shut off the gas or electric on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Let the good times roll.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I know exactly what you mean, and it's really the biggest reason why I don't start working full time for myself. I'd rather someone else worry about paying the bills and keeping the doors open. I know you've been an employee before and I also know you've been in dire straits in the past. It's interesting to me that you keep striking out on your own. I can't handle that kind of uncertainty, myself. You're very brave for doing it at all.
ddrueding
Fixture
When it was just me it didn't bother me to be self employed. Some months I made twenty grand, some none. Now that I am married with a mortgage, there is no way I could handle the pressure.
Just be sure top have a plan "b". Something else you could take up that mightsuck but would pay the bills and keep you off the street.
Just be sure top have a plan "b". Something else you could take up that mightsuck but would pay the bills and keep you off the street.
:beer:
Thanks for mentioning it, but I don't really think the number of my posts is really that useful.
ddrueding
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We don't have (nor need) a system that tracks "useful" posts, so we work with what we have
Wait until you have a couple of teenagers. That's when you pull out the hair and get acid reflux. :monkey:
Thanks for mentioning it, but I don't really think the number of my posts is really that useful.
The existence of your posts is extremely useful. Any post is a good post (except that Uda) and so much better than going out of business.
paugie
Storage is cool
Hey, depending on the teenagers, maybe one doesn't need to pull hair out. It's like chemotherapy, hair just falls.
My wife's acid reflux was the result of teaching in pre-school. Go figure.
Coug, I sincerely hope you pull through.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Thanks for the morale support.
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Storage? I am Storage!
You have excelled yourself this time.
Pradeep
Storage? I am Storage!
I'm officially sick due to infectious disease for the first time in about 5 years.
Not counting surgeries, therapies or diagnostic medical procedures, how often do you miss work days due to infectious disease? :monkey:
Not counting surgeries, therapies or diagnostic medical procedures, how often do you miss work days due to infectious disease? :monkey:
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
I'm officially sick due to infectious disease for the first time in about 5 years.
Not counting surgeries, therapies or diagnostic medical procedures, how often do you miss work days due to infectious disease? :monkey:
Once every year or two. I took off a day when I had a cold a few months ago. I took off about 3 days a few years ago when I had food poisoning.
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
I have young kids so probably about 3-4 times a year.
Probably 2-3 times a year, but the common practice is for most people to come to work sick, so I do it too. I also have the option to work from home if I'm in-between feeling bad enough to not come in, but good enough to do some work and not use a personal day.