Chris Saul's Blog

Wednesday February 21, 2007

What's gone wrong with my typing?

I've just got back online after a week's holiday and have been reading various mails to catch up on things. This has meant re-reading some mails that I've sent to remind myself what's happening in certain situations. I've been shocked to see the number of typos I've been making - no words spelt wrong as such, but lots of missing letters or missing words due to writing to quickly.

Time to do indulge in some more diligent proof reading.

Dear colleagues - send a link to the file not the file itself

Dear Colleagues

It's great to receive interesting information encapsulated in large PDF or StarOffice files. All interesting stuff, that helps me do my job better. However, sending this fascinating content as an attachment means that all of us in the field who are not lucky enough to be enjoying a highspeed connection to the internet have to wait for ages while Thunderbird downloads the file. If we're particularly unlucky we have to stop and restart Thunderbird, which is a waste of time.

We have an internal site that can be used to post files so that you can send a link to the file rather than the file instead. For the sake of my sanity, please start using it!

Warm regards

Chris