The Blog from Mercian Labels & Security Labels International

I’m pretty well travelled with about 40 countries visited over the years, but I’ve never been to such a poor airport as paris charles de gaulle where I have been 3 times in recent weeks.

1. Its got the traffic problem from hell, taking 40 mins for the bus I took to the trade show to even get out of the airport
2. its ugly, and takes for ever to move between gates with everything so far apart
3. the facilities are diabolical – I’m sat at the gate after security and there is no food or drink anywhere, and through most of the airport there are no seats anywhere
4. even the plugs for laptops wont take overseas adapters, its as if the airport has gone out of its way to make life difficult for travellers
5. the wifi is more expensive than switzerland
6. it looks like something designed by overly creative schoolchildren

Suffice to say I will avoid this place in future and recommend others to do so as well!

A classic piece of labelling machinery!

I’m just back from a weeks holiday in Sydney seeing friends, and spent a very pleasurable couple of days in the Hunter Valley wine region.  At the Blueberry Hill vineyard I came across this classic piece of labelling machinery, a beautifully made wooden label applicator. Sometimes its easy to forget just how long labelling has been around!

opusvl is our new open source support provider

Since Senokian Solutions Ltd ceased trading earlier this year we have been in negotiations for a new supplier of open source software support for our systems.  Today we can signed up with Opus VL in Rugby, who we have met and look very capable of meeting our needs.  We look forward to working with the people there.

It wasnt easy finding quality suppliers of open source support in the UK, in fact there appear to be about a handful or less.  Hopefully with the rise and rise of linux, this will change.