Inasmuch as it’s finally done, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the new http://www.mentea.net/ website.
I’d like to thank my clients, past and present, who provided such positive testimonials for inclusion in the new site.
Category Archives: Company
XML Prague 2011 a success
Inasmuch as the EPUB: Chapter and Verse talk went down well and, for many people, the Saturday evening libations at The Strahov Monastic Brevery went down even better, I judge XML Prague 2011 to be a success for me (and for my co-author, Mark Howe) and for Mentea and also a success in its own right.
Several people made approving comments about the talk, which was good (some even commented on last year’s talk, which, since this showed they still remembered it, was even better). The best comment about this year’s though is probably @Innovimax‘s tweet:
Tony is a real 21th century XML Monk! He sponsored the Beer Station at #xmlprague and works on nicely printing bibles. #consideringJoining
Sponsoring XML Prague 2011
Inasmuch as XML Prague was where it became obvious that “Menteith” wasn’t working for many people, Mentea is pleased to be sponsoring the evening libations at XML Prague 2011 to promote the new name.
Page but no name on Facebook
Inasmuch as Mentea does now have a page on Facebook, it’s not the easiest to remember – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mentea/184399461597762 – because Mentea has no username until it is more “liked”.
Mentea on Twitter
Inasmuch as Mentea is now on Twitter as @MenteaXML, see http://twitter.com/MenteaXML.
Mentea logo
Inasmuch as it’s now decided, after much deliberation and some seeking of the wisdom of a small crowd, here’s the new Mentea logo shown against light and dark backgrounds:
Menteith Consulting Ltd is Mentea
Inasmuch as many people have trouble pronouncing “Menteith”, Menteith Consulting Ltd will begin trading under the name “Mentea”. The new logo and website aren’t ready yet, but the beginning of the year is the suitable time to make at least a low-key announcement.
“Mentea” was the most popular choice in a poll of alternative new names among some clients and contacts. Continue reading
Need new company name
Inasmuch as many people aren’t confident about pronouncing “Menteith”, it’s time to change the company name. Continue reading
Converting QuickBooks to SAGE
It seems that accounting packages are better at importing data than they are at exporting data in a generally usable form. Which is unfortunate since I use QuickBooks and my accountant uses SAGE.
To make life easier for my accountant when doing my annual return, I wrote some Perl scripts to convert the little that QuickBooks exports as files plus, via Excel, the data from a non-standard transaction report into what SAGE imports. The account balances on the two packages now all match (though at one point yesterday, account balances in one were -2 times the balances in the other).
I am expecting that the accountant will find few enough things to correct that I won’t have to automate conversion in the other direction.
Impressed by Letterpress
It was interesting to learn about letterpress printing at the National Print Museum workshop by printing a letterhead based on the letterhead I produce on the computer. I had fun; doing the 36pt “Menteith” was a doddle; the instructor, Con, was great, and very helpful when it came to letterspacing “CONSULTING”; but, boy, 8pt text takes a long time when done by hand, especially when you don’t know the layout of letters in the case. Continue reading