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From: "Billy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Off Topic was The forgotten half
UK state pension is not too bad provided you've paid into serps, it's added
another £90 a week onto my basic pension.
I have three private pension policies (non of them very big) it is these
that are I think going to be worth a lot less than I had hoped, in fact if
you had the discipline to put the same amount of money per month into a
good savings account it would be worth more than pension policies even with
the tax breaks, still I've probably kept an insurance rep in a job.
I am lucky. My UK occupational pension is ex local government and therefore
protected by law. I am also lucky that both my UK and Dutch occupational
pension companies are very efficient. A great relief as I lost a lot of
pension rights by my move to the Netherlands.
The magazine is to some extent full of old news as a lot of it's content I
have already read on this list, an electronic version version would suffice
and save printing and postage.
The organisation though has I think a role to play in encouraging and
funding development of software/hardware.
With the end of Motorola series of chips the future I think might lie with
emulators, although it would be wrong to disregard those who still use the
black box.
I use QPC whenever I need to run QL/smsqe software - I have a lot of stuff
needs updating, again I need to find out how my monthly cash flow works
out.
Thanks for the reply. Dilwyn is now bringing a lot of the news coverage up
to date and some of it is going on the website. It may surprise some people
but there is a lot of contact between Dilwyn and myself over QL news - we
regularly check with one another to ensure that we are covering all the QL
news stories.
Both Dilwyn and I would like to see the Quanta website become the definitive
source for the latest QL news for all QL-ers. This would show the importance
of the survival of Quanta for the whole QL community.
In fairness to Quanta they did finance the manufacture of keyboard membranes
by a loan of £2,150. Just a pity that the only place you read about this is
QL Today.
I think a priority for the new committee next year should be a new survey of
members - not just on hardware and software - but such things as access to
the internet.
Just slightly off at a tangent, Quanta members are probably missing their
Quanta Magazine, which, like QL Today, is well overdue. There is a good
reason for this in that John Gilpin has been hit by more than a double
whammy.
Quanta was let down at one point and John had take over the editorship once
again, which meant starting the magazine a month late. He has had a similar
sort of problem with the scout movement which is further eating into his
time. And to add to his problems he updated his broadband but BT messed it
up so that he in fact got a reduced service in which some of his emails went
astray. (That's how I know this story.)
In short John is just seriously overworked at the moment and having to do
what the Dutch call "mopping up while the tap is still running."
I hope all members will have patience and understanding,
Best wishes,
Geoff
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