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    Google API

    Right, Who's going to create me a little app that I can put on my Google personal Google home page that lets me see how much money I am earning by the second? http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39242056,00.htm
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    Parity Stuggle

    http://www.itcontractor.com/Articles_IR35_News_Advice/view_article.asp?id_no=2805&photopage=0 How can they make a loss on such a simple business model? Too many Fat Cats
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    Aagency Wont Pay Me!

    Update Looks like the agency is going to get away with not paying me. Despite my agreement with the end client that I could leave without working notice the contract between my Umbrella company and the agency states I must work 1 weeks notice. So on a technicality I'm in breach of contract...
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    Aagency Wont Pay Me!

    Hey Guys, This is all very good advice. Thank You I've developing a very unbiased view of the situation thanks to your various comments. I will let you know how it pans out but in the mean time please keep your comments coming. Thanks John
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    Aagency Wont Pay Me!

    It was not a trial period, it was a 6 month contract with a 1 week notice period.
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    Paying the double agency wammy

    Alexander Mann do this with a lot of companies, They get the status of ONLY supplier and then they can't resource the jobs. The rate to the contractor is diluted which means the end client is not getting value for money. Unfornately the end client don't really see this as Alexander Mann don't...
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    Aagency Wont Pay Me!

    Agency wont Pay! Agency wont Pay! It was by mutual consent with the end client at the end of the first week. We agreed that their would be no point working any longer if it was not working out. We told the agency that I was going to think about my position over the weekend and they put...
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    Aagency Wont Pay Me!

    Has anybody every been in a situation where they left a contract by mutual consent and the agency later refused to pay them? JB
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    You know when your contract is dull when...

    Penny Counting Penny Counting Rebecca Loos Can you email me the Penny Counting App you have? I'm not a sado developer so I can't write my own.
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    Intel, AMD and Dell

    This takes the piss http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/dell_athlon_amd/ The should strengthen AMDs case against Intel and Dell. Dell need to start taking AMD chips seriously. I've had to stop buying Dell because they chips they use just don't compete with the performance and price...
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    What causes more down time.

    What's worse! a virus or a patch http://news.com.com/Microsoft+patches+may+break+Web+sites/2100-1002_3-5929689.html?part=rss&tag=5929689&subj=news JB
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    Companies to cull costly contractors

    This is a good article, very interesting but a long way away from reality http://www.contractoruk.com/news/002354.html I'm a contractor and my Boss was telling me only the other day how it finds it hard to gets permanent staff to doing anything new without them telling him they need training...
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    Rates and PAYE

    Does anybody know if what they are asking me to do is legal. If I have my own company is it not up to me how I pay myself?
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    Surviving the Recession

    What Recession? What u talking about. Economy will pick up around Christmas and power in 2006. What makes you think it wont?
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    eBay - how to get at a scumbag trader?

    Take a photo so that you can proove is not new. Upload somewhere and put a link to it on his feedback and complain to ebay. Should only take a few minutes to do all that and it might stop him selling a few things which means he will have to create a new account etc. All very inconvenient and...

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