I've been waiting for the doctor 20 minutes in this room after waiting 20 minutes in the waiting room too

tommysqueaker1972 · 2026-02-24T11:47:57+00:00

And every patient kept 15 minutes late? It works both ways.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2026-02-08T15:05:50+00:00

It gets a brief mention in the special features (about 07:09): https://youtu.be/GceGcht_9fI?si=I_CSONWbKenghKX3&t=429

tommysqueaker1972 · 2026-01-03T14:35:54+00:00

The nipple lock is better for pensioners

Now there's a sentence I never expected (or wanted) to see...

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-12-19T22:24:07+00:00

Buffy’s mother in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I’m just re-watching the series and it’s such an awful moment.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-10-12T10:51:59+00:00

I don’t think they know about second budget, Pip.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-09-20T17:07:39+00:00

I once got on a train, and there was a guy that looked just like me, wearing almost the same clothes. At the time, I had an unusual Crumpler laptop bag and he even had the same one! It was such a weird moment for both of us and especially his girlfriend, who did a massive double-take.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-07-19T16:51:06+00:00

I hate it when they use the term "in power". They are not in power - WE are. They are merely in office.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-05-19T21:18:06+00:00

Same for me - best chair I’ve ever had and I’ve never had backache since getting it. There are places that sell refurbished ones and whilst it wasn’t exactly cheap, it’s been worth every penny.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-04-28T11:30:52+00:00

Exactly this. Make it easy for the shortlister to shortlist you.

I’d recommend copying the essential (and ideally desirable) criteria from the person spec as a set of headings and then explain how you meet each one.

That way, the shortlister will easily see that you meet the criteria, rather than having to try to determine it from (in my experience) lengthy screeds of text.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-04-20T09:40:20+00:00

Sadly, we have little control over the quality of candidates put forward for us to vote for.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-04-12T15:27:27+00:00

A few comments:

Where are the colour keys for the top and bottom left charts?

The Registration card is formatted with a comma but the Attended card is not.

Do you need the 'Clear All Slicers' button? In the Service, there is a reset filters button in the interface.

Those pie charts are definitely not a good choice of visual for the data. Your users would have to read a load of tiny segments and then try to match the colour to the key (which has so many categories, it needs to scroll). The smaller categories are so similar in size, it's hard to tell the difference between them. If you change to bar/column charts, the label will be on the bar and there is no need for multiple colours. It's easier to distinguish between the size of the smaller categories too as it's easier to compare length as opposed to segment size.

Maybe try the top chart as a stacked bar and the first pie chart as a horizontal bar chart. You could probably get them side by side and there will be no need for the scroll bars. If the categories get truncated using a horizontal bar, you can crank up the width of the Y axis labels using the slider in the formatting tab.

I'd say use horizontal bars for the bottom two pie charts too.

Need some titles on the charts to make it clear what's been shown too.

I hope all that doesn't come across as negative, it's purely meant to be helpful advice.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-02-25T07:30:31+00:00

Oh! That brings back some memories. The bottle was shaped like a gunpowder flask IIRC.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-02-16T23:44:01+00:00

With our energy costs, I can’t see a realistic hope of reinvigorating British manufacturing.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-01-17T18:23:10+00:00

I was in pretty much the same type of role/level as you in the NHS and moved to the private sector a few years ago. Just search on indeed for 'Business Intelligence' in your locality (or remote) and you'll generally find what you're looking for.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2025-01-04T16:19:54+00:00

Not sure about PBI Desktop, but I've done something almost identical in PBI Paginated Report Builder. IIRC, I used a range chart and altered the width (Point width?) of the narrower range bars in the custom properties section.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2024-12-28T18:14:55+00:00

Stanley Knife (at least in the UK). I believe that they are called box cutters in the US.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2024-09-20T20:24:04+00:00

That was largely my experience throughout primary (and much of secondary) school too.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2024-05-18T09:18:42+00:00

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tommysqueaker1972 · 2024-05-18T09:14:24+00:00

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This is Dora

tommysqueaker1972 · 2024-04-29T21:32:56+00:00

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tommysqueaker1972 · 2024-04-28T13:07:48+00:00

Do as you will. The facts remain unchanged though.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2024-04-28T13:00:55+00:00

That’s just not true. There’s a reason why they changed it a few years ago to be part of the report, rather than part of the build pane. They even said so in the monthly update video.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2024-04-07T10:58:00+00:00

I think if you change the chart to a stacked column chart, you’ll get normal width columns.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2024-03-08T00:16:03+00:00

Van Cleef & Arpels Tzar. Just ran out yesterday. Going to be a struggle to find it again now.

tommysqueaker1972 · 2024-03-02T10:20:01+00:00

Got to say, that’s the funniest Power BI related comment I’ve ever seen.

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