Monday 18 October 2010

Adobe Reader 9 - oh dear oh dear

Adobe Reader 9

I have taken an instant dislike to Adobe Reader 9. I'm meant to be adding some comments to some PDFs.

In older versions I'm sure this was easy to do. Looking at the menus, when I try to add the "Comments and Markup Toolbar" that has got things "Sticky Notes", it has an asterisk next to it with "Only available when Document Rights are Enabled".

http://www.printlondonltd.co.uk/

I tried to install Reader 8, but it refused to install telling me I had a better version (i.e. 9) on my computer. WTF?

But what about Hackney Web Design or web design and development in Bethnal Green??

Any ideas how I can add comments?

Friday 7 August 2009

Article Dashboard - August 6

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Is-Dreamweaver-Necessary-for-Web-Design/995087
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Sources-for-Quality-Web-Design-Advice/995095
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Which-Content-Management-System-/995108
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Advice-for-Learning-PHP/995113
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Drupal-as-Your-Favoured-Content-Management-System/995117

Trouble is truth is little more than a linguistic relation. An assumption baised on the fact it seems inconcievable to our minds for a thing to be and not be at the same time. When you say another person is telling the truth you are merely saying that their belief matchs with your own belief. (providing they give no reason for you to doubt your own beliefs). Now arguably this linguistic notion of truth is built upon experience, but this poses a number a problems as an experience is inaccessible to everyone but the individual and even then only imperfectly through memory. Secondly our experience is strongly subjective and two peoples accounts of one experience can be completely different. Finally the biggest problem is the impossibility of an inductive truth, you can fit an infinite number of possibilites into any evidence that we have available in the present, you cannot assume the future will be anything like the past, as our largest most fundemental assumptions are nothing more than probabilities, why would you want a society that is built around the idea of truth.

The best kind of truth would be a tautology, of course anyone who went around all day speaking tautologies would be considered a loon. They really arn't much use to us in real life. If you are ever in east London please visit Stratford web design and development.The universe is not written in a binary language of truths and falsehoods, only our minds will divide it in this sense for pragmatic reasons, it is clear from experience that the world is discreet and in flux. Whether it is true that the house you are living in today was still the same house yesterday entirely depends on the standard of the "the same" you are applying.

In my opinion this is the most true statement you can get, societies that have a rigid concept of absolute truth are usually cruel places that fail to adapt to progress. Why would we want to go back to this type of society?

Tuesday 4 August 2009

I-snare August 2009

http://www.isnare.com/?aid=393626&ca=Internet
http://www.isnare.com/?aid=393619&ca=Internet
http://www.isnare.com/?aid=393620&ca=Internet
http://www.isnare.com/?aid=393623&ca=Internet
http://www.isnare.com/?aid=393625&ca=Internet
http://www.isnare.com/?aid=381750&ca=Internet

Now, as my modem's playing up, it's difficult for me to do much, but I'm in contact with someone on Friends Reunited who's wanting to know what holiday camps our kids' home went to as he can't remember.

I know that at this particular home we didn't go to Butlins, and I'm sure it wasn't a Pontins.

I know I went to one, but I can't remember where it was (although probably within a few hours of Essex) or whether it even had a beach. I remember thinking it wasn't as good as Butlins

Suggestions of where it could have been please. I don't know whether it was a group like Butlins or Pontins or whether it was just a one-off place, but I seem to remember it may have begun with "C", but it wasn't Caister

Friday 17 July 2009

Article Dashboard - July 17

http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Are-Press-Releases-Relevant-in-the-21st-Century-/916632
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/The-Best-Way-of-Writing-a-Press-Release-in-the-Net-Age/916630
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Knowing-Who-the-Audience-Are-For-Your-Press-Release/916627
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/The-Most-Effective-Way-to-Write-a-Press-Release-For-the-Web/916626
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Aiming-to-Be-a-Successful-Blogger---A-Reality-Check/916625

You have the factual reply - third rank up. In practical terms that means they would be in charge of a small team of officers responsible for a particular task - a response team (covering emergency response 24/7 on shifts) would have an Inspector in charge, a Community Safety Unit would have a Detective Inspector in charge and so on. They would normally be responsible for about 20-30 officers (though the number could vary quite widely and some specialist units may have far less) including 3-5 sergeants (who would each usually be responsible for 5-10 constables).

Inspectors would normally be the senior rank routinely on duty outside normal hours and responsible for routine functions.

Though three up from the bottom they are six (eight in the Met) down from the top ... so not that important or influential really!