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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by eek View Post

    Surely it needs to follow Gov.uk standards?
    You’d certainly recognise things like the radio buttons and checkboxes as being GDS-compliant, but as it’s a purely internal tool, there’s more leeway

    The GovUK Design System only takes you so far - this required UI components that simply don’t exist in there. In fact, several central government departments have created additions to GDS which get used even in public-facing services. MoJ have done some great work in that area, and although HMRC are notoriously tech-phobic in certain respects, the UX team there have also created some useful extensions to the basic set of components and styles

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans

    This was accompanied by a bit of NEW! Police Interceptors

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Lunch has been the small amount of leftover lamb tagine from the other night. Nice and zingy

    The designer was pleased with the various bits of tidying I’d done to the layout of the thing yesterday, bringing it into line with his vision

    Still windy and grey and getting gloomier out. No rain expected before around eight this evening, though
    Surely it needs to follow Gov.uk standards?

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  • xoggoth
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    Arty farty thing ths morning. Venue was bit crowded as nearly everyone turned up for a change. Karaoke this evening if I can be bovvered.

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch has been the small amount of leftover lamb tagine from the other night. Nice and zingy

    The designer was pleased with the various bits of tidying I’d done to the layout of the thing yesterday, bringing it into line with his vision

    Still windy and grey and getting gloomier out. No rain expected before around eight this evening, though

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Overcast but quite bright. Dry. Currently 13 degrees ('feels like' 9) and that's the high for the day. There may be some rain later. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

    Sunrise 05:55; Sunset 18:21 GMT

    Busy morning of meetings. HWMBO is heading down for a visit.

    Cocoa Shreddies for a mid-morning snack.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Tuesday. <checks clock>

    Wet.

    Windy.

    Horizontal drizzle.

    NotSoChilly in here at 14.5 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

    1011 mBar, 29.855 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.663 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 22nd of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot (zenchury), AndyGarbs made an appearance, and I bought 18 bogrolls from Morrisons to tide me over, like, whilst quietly lusting after the lady on "In Search of Mediaeval Britain" as one does.

    Can't see the other side of the valley boyo. There's tidy then.

    Ongoing horizontal drizzle.

    Lunch: brunch: early since there's nowt else to do since I'm not going for a walk in this.

    Entertainment: R4 thing about linking up music. Unexpectedly began with AC/DC. Had look through a dozen or so of the previous editions and found "We don't need no education" and "Overkill", plus "Only look on the bright side of life" and "Sweet child o'mine".

    Book.

    Filled in the statistics thing for gov.uk, though I'm not sure the limited amount of info they wanted is particularly relevant to anything much. Included my last job title & what it was.

    Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: bit of the doctors thing followed by PM.

    The last 25 minutes of "The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)".

    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 19:29.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Grey day out and windy too, so the current 10°C “feels like” 3°; the target is 13°. The barometers are heading down at 1001/1009mB

    I awoke too early today, having raised the blind too high and let too much light in. I then struggled to get back to sleep so got up about twenty minutes earlier than I ever normally would. Still, I had to empty the dishwasher so at least I wasn’t bored

    I had been happily going about my business believing we get an extra hour’s sleep this weekend, but thinking about time and alarms made me realise that’s wrong, and we actually lose an hour! I am not at all happy about this, but maybe I should continue getting up early for the rest of the week to get used to it, as I’ll have to do it next week anyway

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all

    Overcast out, and on our way back in from the walk the wind picked up (no, not from Max) and the clouds were gathering to the south west. I suspect rain may be on the way.

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  • NickFitz
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    This evening’s viewing was the latest Forensics: The Real CSI, about tracking down a gang that was doing over cash machines. It was a good one; I particularly enjoyed the bloke scoffing “Gloves are only a quid” as the police took his fingerprints. Guess how they pinned it on him? He now has ten years to contemplate the price of gloves

    And later, I finished The Dark Forest which had a really unexpected and clever ending!

    On to the final volume in the trilogy, Death’s End, next

    ​​​​​​​Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

    I had to have the chicken because there isn’t enough room for all of it in the freezer. I need to use some stuff up

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  • NickFitz
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    That’s Monday done and dusted!

    I reckon the thing I’ve been working on is just about there now, though the intended users will have to have a play and decide if it’s fit for purpose, I suppose

    Today was largely spent fiddling around to make it look like the designs; left a pixel here, down three pixels there, make that a different shade of grey, and all that kind of thing. It’s a fairly restful way to spend a bit of time

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  • xoggoth
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    Just back from just under 2 hour walk doing a toothpaste, I mean footpath, inspection for council. Now got to get photos and GPS tracks off me phone, and put me notes in a spreadsheet before I forget what my illegible scrawls mean. Glad I didn't volunteer to do as much as I did last year.

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  • NickFitz
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    Links are up

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  • Pondlife
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    Good morning,

    Wind 4 kt from the South/Southeast
    Temperature 12°C
    Humidity 62%
    Pressure 1021 hPa
    Visibility 10 km or more

    Definite improvement in the weather.

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