Alarm off at 6:00am but unable to levitate until 6:40am this morning... Some problems with one of the main reports at Deliver Net last night and so I need to copy the database for my colleague to take a look this morning, then advise the people via Email at Deliver Net of what we are doing.
Amazing how much business the Royal Main are losing because of these strikes, Amazon have moved as has Marks & Spencers and now even Deliver Net have now made a policy decision to send all Invoices electronically. This will result in millions upon millions fewer letters being delivered by Royal Mail with the ensuing loss of jobs... I still don't understand the logic of the minds of these union leaders...
So I've knocked out a quick report for Deliver Net with all their live customers that don't have emails and they can get their database up to date and start the transition to Electronic Invoices... will save them around £800 per month... this was an inevitable transition.... just the Royal Mail strikes have exacerbated the decision.
Onto some Blog posts now... Table tennis site has got a little behind... so a couple of posts quickly added there. Must now set up the Printer as a Supplier and place my order with him for the BillBandit project. Paid the VAT electronically and now moving on to sorting out some website content for a Hungarian friend who is setting up UK subsidiary for a Hungarian company here near London.
Update on progress on the Deliver Net report... my colleague has spent most of the day on this problem and is no further forward. Looks like we have stumbled on a problem which is about the boundaries of web technology and what we are doing. We restart the server an re-run the job in an attempt to see whether it might be a program that has got in a mess... but the same thing happens. I'm off to Table Tennis now and it looks like it is going to be a late one tonight.
We are playing the top team in the Chalfont league tonight and to be honest my head is not really on the game. So many problems and things to do back at the ranch. Anyhow the match goes ok really we come away with a 5-5 draw and I won all my 3 singles so seems like even though I was tired and not really up for it I came through... maybe it was because of some exciting texts that I received during the course of the evening... more on those later !!!
Back at base... I have to import some Product data for a Select Hire's subcontractor Ruddy Joinery. They asked yesterday for some products to be added and normally Otis does this, however I will have to sort this out because he's busy on another project and I can see that tomorrow we will have to help sort out the reporting problem with Deliver Net. Couple all of this with some 50,000 + Spam messages suddenly coming into our server I'm up until 2am... with a projected 5:30am start to sort out Laing O'Rourke on the One-Hyde-Park project... tired and concerned off to bed....
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