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Rip Off Britain, Creatively
We’ve heard it all before. We are more than aware that in the UK we pay more for just about everything than anywhere else in the world. Corporations know they can get away with it and we moan a bit but carry on shelling out.
At today’s exchange rate of £1 = $2.0037, to fill an average family car with petrol in the UK costs £50 or $100. It is, we’re told, due to Government import duties and taxes.
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How not to build web sites….. Part 2
In my last post on this matter How not to build web sites, I listed a few of the things that really drive me nuts but it’s always good to have a few graphic examples for those that are not convinced.
In the annals of web design there are disasters, complete disasters and unmitigated disasters. Vincent Flanders documents many of these on his web site Web Pages That Suck and a good afternoon’s entertainment can be had looking through there.
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Mangling the English Langwich
I blame text. I was going to let the education system off until I saw an article about schools in New Zealand allowing text speak in exams. Given the appalling spelling seen across the web, some of which admittedly can be put down to poor typing skills, things can only get worse. At least when schools tried to make kids write and spell properly we had a chance of understanding the results but now?
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You need a break……
For many years I worked in the corporate world, leaving home at 6am and arriving back at 7pm. In all of these years never once did family or friends decide to “drop in for a coffee” or ring up for a chat. They knew that I had a job to do, deadlines to hit and if they wanted to see me, would call at weekends or, in times of emergency, late evening. Fair enough.
Now I run my own business, I work from home. I probably put longer hours in than I did before. I still have work to do, I still have deadlines to hit so why is it suddenly OK to phone up at random times to tell me about the latest happenings with the pigeons in the garden, or what the chap over the road said on his way back from the shops?
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Hello world!
I wanted to open this blog with something witty, pithy, thought provoking, then I thought why not start as you mean to go on and just post utter drivel. So here you are, JBVoices, the random thoughts and mutterings of the MD of sister site JBVisions.
This blog has two purposes. First and foremost it’s a testbed for JBVisons web design clients to get a feel for a blog that can also be used as a basic Contents Management System.
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