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mrmist

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About mrmist

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  1. I backed the kickstarter project for this near the start and, for a long while, it wasn't obviously going to make its target. But then there was a massive upsurge near the end and it flew through. Very pleased. I reckon they'll make a decent go at the this, since otherwise there really was no reason to do it at all.
  2. The "gifts by price" slider appears on the front page and doesn't do anything / have any obvious way of working. The fourth picture banner "10% off" is poorly sized (a few pixels shorter than the others), and, as such when it appears you can still see the previous banner underneath, it looks messy. Resize the graphic or pad it out with black to make it fit properly. I think that there are too many drop down menus, and / or they are too eager to appear. When I'm scanning across the page with my mouse, I don't want all these distracting elements. I can see how the pull down is meant to encourage ad-hoc purchases, but, frankly, I can't see that being worthwhile - especially when it's a personalisation item and the quick add just takes you to the same view as clicking on the item itself. The personalation design studio is too much. You need to massively simplify it, perhaps cut out a number of the options. (I can't see people wanting to add generic clip-art very often, for example). When uploading art in the personalised design, the warning pops up about "Copy Right". This should read "Copyright". Also, try to display this warning elsewhere, rather than during upload. It's very discouraging. When you've passed that stage, and browsed to your art image, you're then placed onto a page to "select the colours in your print". From this page, on my IE browser there was no obvious way to proceed with adding the art. The only option available was to click the X to closse the window and abandon the attempt. Assuming I still wanted to go ahead with my personalised item - which I wouldn't, because I couldn't personalise it - then I put a 1 in the costing box to the right hand side, hit recalcuate to show costs, I expect a "buy now" or similar to appear. It doesn't. I don't know how to buy the item. So I go to "save design" but that wants me to create an account. I really don't want to do that for a trivial purchase, I want to just buy something without creating an account. It might be that - should I ever get there - I have to enter all the account related stuff anyway, and that's fine, but make it less obvious. Let people type the stuff in as part of the checkout process, then say "do you want to save your information for next time", or something.
  3. I would do away with "My excellent social skills imply I can get on well with people at all levels." As it's not very well phrased and something of a platitude.
  4. The last time we were there (after this management change) the food selection and quality was great. And our youngest ate for a pound, which is nice.
  5. As big_g was hinting, it sounds like you're basing your opinion of the energy saving bulbs on the 1st generation stuff. More recent bulbs are much improved. There's also a lot of variety out there.
  6. If it's just another girl of the same age or thereabouts though then it most likely was just a prank (albeit perhaps not the cleverest one in the world.) It's not really clear what the police could do about it.
  7. Unless the plan would be to cover them in foam padding - which would be interesting for the thermal properites of the radiator - I think that'd be a bit fruitless. There will always be some edge for a kid to hit, if not immediately obvious they will search for one to test it out.
  8. Of course you are upset because your daughter hurt her head but, realistically, accidents happen. I'm not sure exactly what you'd expect the school to do - even with the best supervision, it's impossible to prevent every occurance.
  9. You keep giving them your custom despite the problems, so they've not much incentive to change.
  10. Here we both love reading, and of course love books. But we only have so much room that we can fill with books. It's getting a tad ridiculous. So the Kindle is great if only from a saving wall-space aspect. Yeah you don't quite get that same atmosphere of page turning, but, really, with a good book, you're following the story, not the medium. The Kindle is great to read off because of the technology involved. There's no harsh refreshing or backlight to produce eye-strain, it's essentially just like reading a print book, but you can store 100s of them on 1 device. Also, if you finish a book, you can connect up and get a new one without having to move.
  11. Well, they aren't. But people should manage their own expectations really.
  12. I checked a price with them about a year ago and it was pretty much what I expected to see, a couple of grand off what you might get privately. You'd be pretty foolish to think that they would "buy any car" at top rates. They've been sending email to my spam bucket ever since.
  13. Is it from a university (.edu) address? If so, it could be genuine. Doesn't sound like you have much to lose out on. If you go further with it, be sure at every stage not to release information that is not relevant, or to hand over any cash, even in "temporary" fees.
  14. I came up to this at the weekend. The way they've positioned that silly island makes it look as though the left hand lane is a sweep around rather than a part of the roundabout. (I think it's not helped by the poor visibility because of the hill.) I was all ready to just carry on around nicely before realising that it was actually just another lane on the rounabout. Properly stupid.
  15. We got a car there, it's fine. Price was right.
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