A note on Redundancy Bumping. Bumping is the process of moving a potentially redundant employee into another role, and dismissing the employee currently performing that role. Here are my notes.
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Hybrid Meetings
As June 21st approaches, a whole bunch of people are looking at how to run Hybrid Meetings. This is not easy with consumer technology i.e. laptops, neither the mic. nor the camera’s are likely to be good enough. One will thus be reliant on the venue’s AV facilities. Here are my notes on the tech…
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Datediff in Excel
Another article on Excel idioms; this one’s about dates. It’ll be useful for some.
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Clashing Cameras and video conferencing.
I have had Zoom fail to connect to the camera on my PC over the last couple of days. Zoom say to make sure that other camera using applications have detached. I used [ctrl][alt][del] to start the task manager and noticed that Teams was still running. So I used the end task button and the…
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Event Monitoring
My recent problem with the Raspberry Pi is an event monitoring and notification problem. It’s one, that over my career, I have spent a lot of time considering, but today, I only have one server. I don’t think I need or want to afford something like Zabbix, which comes with a series of event monitors…
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Raspberry Pi and messages
I logged into find my disk too full to use. Why didn’t it tell me? Here are my notes.
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Jamstack
I am advised that this is the really hot tool set to build websites with. Here are my notes.
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ABC of Chairmanship
I want to read Citrine’s ABC of Chairmanship on my tablet; who owns the copyright and when does it expire?
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Stay
I had need to write to a friend who has resigned from the Labour Party, this is what I wrote back.
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On Germany’s election system
The German Federal elections must meet the requirements of Article 38, §1 of the German constitution, “the delegates of the German Parliament (Bundestag) […] are elected in a general, direct, free, equal and secret vote.” This article talks about how Germany does proportionality, overhang seats, inverse success values and their threshold rules. It also looks…
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Swapping Norton with Windows builtins
Things improve! I have just uninstalled Norton Ultra to replace it with the windows 10 builtins; previous experience has made this seem hard and risky. Hopefully not now it would seem.
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Logitech K380
I bought a Logitech K380 for use with my phones and new tablet. It’s manual is here, and it connects to the tablet with a US keyboard configuration. This can be reconfigured using the Android setup bluetooth screens. … To pair/connect, press one of the yellow buttons until the white light flickers, make the client…
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