FYI . DO NOT download the Latest channel 5 on demand app . they updated it & I cannot view anything on my Xperia anymore , but it is actually causing some I-pads etc to crash . they are looking into it .........
I never download anything I can avoid...everything is a trap for the uninitiated. They say it is simple then tell you to do this and that as if you have a degree in computer science. My computer is as virginal as it can get. Another thing I have learnt....don't waste your time when the computer suggests it can fix itself....always says that there are faults it cannot fix. No diagnostic in the history of man has ever worked. Now look what you have done....set me off.
At the moment I haven't down loaded any Microsoft updates because every time I try to do so it automatically wants to down load the latest version of windows which I do not want.
That's a pretty good attitude for the non-techy, tbf. Most the issues I have to solve are due to the unwary downloading this, that or the other and then telling me they didn't know how it got there and sludged up their computer. I know damn well how it got there, because I've seen the same scenario thousands of times. I don't care how they dress them up to be jazzy, easy things for everybody to use, be they PC, Mac, Android, you name it. Computers are still things for nerds at heart. They are not TVs with keyboards. The computer hasn't been invented yet which can't be screwed by the careless.
Last edition of the paper on the 26th of March. Knew this was coming. I was due to start working with them on the 27th. Sad times. A great newspaper and disappointing for the many great journalists there losing work, too.
Ironic isn't it that you were to join them on the day after they finally decided to cease print production. Wonder where your career may have gone? Such are the fortunes of being in the right place at the right time. Or in your case, the wrong/right/wrong place at the right/wrong/wrong time. With they remain online or fold completely?
Hmm. Not so sure about that. They may well downsize their editorial staff, plus of course the printers will all be redundant. And if this becomes a trend affecting all newspapers, what about all the corner shops across the country who get a large part of their daily income through newspaper sales? And then of course FLT might lose his paper round...
Indeed, the paper doesn't print itself. And online editions don't tend to have anything like the coverage of print editions, so the reporters and staff required will be fewer. As said before though, it'll happen to them all sooner or later. Online news gathering and reporting will be the norm rather than the exception.
So, what have we all been up to on our holidays then? Cricket for me, bit of a slog fest at the end there!
By the way, it seems that Mick, the site owner, broke it while trying to fix the tagging problem. Never mind, eh?
Sorry I didn't make myself clear. I was just talking about at the paper and going on what the BBC article says. I don't know how many Independent readers FLT has on his paper round, hopefully not too many.
