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nanny-now and forever · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject:

we have recycling for old batteries, phone books and the print cartridges and things like that...all the loos are in the centre of the building so you have to switch on the light or it is as black as the devil's nutting bag in there

what irks me more than anything is the appalling waste of food that goes on there..our lot work on 24 hour shifts sop there is a lot of food kicking around but so many people seem franticaly worried that they might die if they get close to the end of the sell by or use by date and just chuck things away unused or open and then chucked out.....ot they go in completely the other direction and keep stuff in the fridge till it grows fur and goes all honky...they should bring just enough for the day and not keep it hanging round, it's a waste and the very least and a health hazard as well..........

n · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:52 pm Post subject:

I have to know.
What on earth is "awake on ping"
Shall we have a prize for best anagram?
There is probably a website which will do this for you.... I'll know if you use it, I have eyes you know....
n
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Haize · 3 Star Club Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1126

gnaw on a pike

But what it actually means (I'm talking about "awake on ping", obviously!) is that the user's computer can be turned off at night, and when there are updates, the server sends it a signal to wake up.

My wonderful OH used to telephone his computer on the way home from school, so that it'd be booted up by the time he was there Laughing

Mind you, one of my rather lazy friends made a lego technic thing that pressed the "on" switch of his computer when he used the remote controller. So it would be booted up by the time he was out of bed. Rolling Eyes

On topic, some companies will have buildings suitable for wind generators and so on. However, that means they have to be owners of the building, which not all are.

Hmm, actually taking scrap printer paper for using the other side as notepads would be a good one. Throwing it in the recycle bin is good, but getting a second use out of it before that is even better. So having a tray for bits that didn't print right etc next to the printer would be a good idea, and every now and then, someone staple in stacks of 10-15 sheets, and place on top of the notepads in the store room. That way you actually have to lift the re-used paper to get to the new pads, which helps the lazier people make the right choice Twisted Evil

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n · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:33 am Post subject:

pagan wine ok

Not that I'm obsessed with the shed warming or anything.

We use the unused side of paper at home, there's always a little heap beside the phone. I like the idea of putting the new "pads" on top of the bought ones though.... or even moving the bought ones to the very back of the cupboard under something like a hundred unboxed and neatly stacked pencils.

Plastic biros bug me. I am a pencil user myself. I know the ones we buy at work aren't the lind made out of recycled plastic cups or anything, so I just hope the wood in them isn't virgin forest.

n

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