Amazing ID Cards & Biometric's

A busy couple of weeks

As my headline states, it has been a busy couple of weeks, I have been providing holiday cover for my work colleague for two weeks. Now back to normal I hope.

Although this week looks to be interesting, Monday in Swansea for a meeting with the (HOVIP) Heads of the Valley Inititive consultant.

Thursday I chair the Torfaen Voice business club meeting, only two events but with work and producing a number if ID cards the week will soon fill up with activities.

The Torfaen voice meeting at Cwmbran sees our guest speakers as Derek Brockway a quite renowned local boy and national weather presenter.

ID cards a little quiet at the moment, then again Xmas rapidly approaching, security and ID not the first thing on peoples minds.

Never mind soon be January. 

Disaster hits my Renault 19

After many years of good service my Renault 19 has gone to the great scrap yard in the sky. It has served the family well for thirteen years, unfortunately at this MOT it failed miserably with a possible repair bill approaching six hundred pound. So the sad decision had to be made to scrap the car.

After a local search of Cwmbran I managed to locate a Peugeot estate car at the right price, so now I am the proud owner of a quite newish estate with all the toys. What a difference in the drive of a relatively new car as opposed to the thirteen year old Renault. Mind you if the water pump had not gone and a rear spring & welding & a lighting fault &. I would have kept the car as I think I have grown up with it in a way. Never mind onward and upward as they say.

I hope the Peugeot will provide reliable transport for a number of years both for the family and for my Id card business, The business has been quite vibrant for a number of weeks so I hope that I am able to keep the momentum for Id card going.  Cwmbran is quite busy of late with a great deal of new development so the requirements of having a better vehicle with the increased traffic is a good safety factor.  

Not a lot else of interest this week other than the fact that I have teamed up with the boy's from Golden Dragon Ltd in a new venture , which I will mention as time moves on. 

Who Dunnnit, or in my case what "dunnitt"

  At the end of October whilst in the country side, outside Cheltenham my colleague and myself were outside an hostelry called the Mill. The Mill is an old country pub in the middle of nowhere.

When we went back to our vehicle I noticed what I thought was grease on my arm, on closer inspection I found out that what I thought was grease was in fact blood. "Some thing" had bitten me.

Was it a vampire, or a ghoul that; that I will never know. All I know is that it has left me with an extreme case of eczema. It is slowly getting better now after many doctors visits and lots & lots of antibiotics. 

So if you are on the outskirts of Cheltenam BEWARE.

Now safely back in Wales and taking the tablets I am on the mend, and able to resume my production of ID cards.  I am glad to say ID cards have been quite popular this last couple of weeks with several companies requesting card designs, " keep it up".  I visited Cwmbran my local town today for my foray around the shops and the proverbial bank.  Then a quick run back home for a spot of dinner. Then back to the computer for another spell of some ID card template building, couple of hours then up for tea and the end of that days ID card work.  Well the weather in Wales has been quite good of late so hopefully we will have a reasonable winter. Cwmbran is quite good in the bad weather as many areas of the walkways are covered over, still cccccold though. Never mind if I was anywhere other that in Cwmbran or Wales for that manner I would probably still complain, it's to cold to print ID cards.

Was that hard work or what!

Following on from my last post "ID card goes traveling" away we go on holiday. We had not left London before the gremlins struck. Mother cuts her finger open on hotel door, she manages to lock herself in the ladies loo in Montana. I am sick all over Chur station & I leave my camera bag in the security scanner in Paris Eurostar departure lounge. On the return journey, not to be seen again as yet.

As to the chances of seeing my handy cam again I am not holding out a great deal of hope. Lesson for the future do not leave your bag on Eurostar, it will be gone with the fairies.

Also of course go all the holiday pictures and some material for use on my websites. My the time we came home we needed a holiday to get over the initial one so I drove to Poole in Dorset for a couple of days, returning via Dawlish to visit a colleague of mine who I worked with many years ago.

Then of course I required to play catchup and sort out the inquiries for ID cards etc, which had arrived over the holiday break.  That is all sorted now although it has taken up to now to bring everything up to date.  Even if I had the remaining time available before the end of the year I think that I would have to go to work for a rest after that holiday experience. Never mind onwards & upwards we go. 

Id card goes traveling

Holiday time nears, and I am just getting in the swing of things and packing all the essentials for my trip. This year I am having eight days seeing the mountains & glaciers of Switzerland.

And for a difference I am going by rail, no driving or traffic congestion.  From south Wales to London then onto Mulhouse in France then over to Chur in Switzerland. All a new experience for me.  I am informed that the scenery is stunning.  All the while I am taking my Id card with me so that I am able to video it's progress through the different towns and cities for my video blog.

First I need to finalize the template for a local drug awareness charity, so that their ID card will be ready for print, that is for later in the day. Looking forward to see what the new card requirement's await on return from my break. Will share experience on my return.

What a week

In tune with the British pastime of complaining about the weather"What a Week" it seemed that it has rained everyday, it certainly has in my little part of Wales, never mind it could be worse. Look at the flooding in Northern Ireland. The bonus for me is that I live on a hill. If the water ever get to me; a lot of others are literally in deep trouble. Well that's my moan for today. What is new in the world of Amazing ID cards. Produced some new Id cards for a Yorkshire company that specializes in keeping the windows of firms in that area nice and clean.  Redesigned a new Id for a local Welsh company specializing in property surveying, only a small job but nice return work.

And what is the rest of this week going to bring, a little more card work I hope, and having to cut the lawn a definite"rain permitting". And maybe a visit to my local tonight.

Good News

Well what an eventful week last week turned out to be. I have been a member of the International Professional Security Association (IPSA)now for many years.

Starting out as an ordinary member, I then went on to be Chairman of the South Wales region, I then  undertook the role as membership secretary; a position that has kept me quite busy over the years. Last week at the meeting of the Executive committee at the Black Firs in Marston Green Birmingham; I was voted in as the Deputy International Chairman. A role that I never aspired to, but a role that I am honored to be awarded. With so many good people preceding me I have a daunting task ahead to make my mark and assist in moving the Association on to greater things. 

I my last post I mentioned that I had produced new ID cards for the computer specialists A2Z Computing Ltd. They have very kindly allowed me to use their card image in this post to show the diversity of cards, that may be provided, they have a protective over laminate added to help provide a more durable card finish. New card challenges are arriving so onward and upward we go.

 

What a busy week

Hi all

What a week, just when I thought I had my short term schedule sorted out, I get called into work for a meeting. That messed up my plans, but their we go.

I was hoping to get some photography done this week, in between other jobs but due to our wonderful mixed weather all my best intended plans again went astray. I did manage to have a colleague of mine take some photos of me for addition to a project. I have to admit that I will never make the pages of Vogue magazine or any other for that matter.

On the card front I printed new updated ID cards for a Newport computer company, they update every two years, this year they are having new fonts and updated staff photo's plus a different laminate finish.

Cards look good even if I say so myself. Looking forward to my next challenge in printing Spectrum Positive Amazing ID Cards. Should you require further information on cards for your company or association click the Spectrum Positive link to my site. Should you wish to be added to my mailing list, kindly click the envelope on my contact page.       

Visitor Badge week

This week I produced a number of visitor cards for a Cardiff training business. The company has a lot of different individuals on their premises at any one time, so they required a visitor badge produced plus a coloured card holder. They have their own design printed lanyards.

This particular badge mirrored their ID cards. With their logo and background design remaining the same as their ID cards, in place of the photo and individual details they had the text visitor in a large type font,   easily visible across an open plan office.  By issuing their staff with ID cards and providing visitors to the premises with passes, all helps to maintain the integrity of their security by ensuring that visitors are readily distinguishable from regular members of staff.

All companies should surely strive to ensure that all individuals who enter their premises within working hours are accountable to reception staff.  All individuals without ID or visitor badges are then open to question.  Accountability provides peace of mind all around.

I wonder what will be required next week, membership cards maybe. We shall have to wait and see.

 

Have camera will travel

It has been a busy week in my little part of the world, with me out and about doing the usual things like shopping.  But I did manage to get out and about in my car and travel up to Glos .

Taking a couple of photos of the river seven along the way; nothing spectacular just some nice peaceful scenery, plus the odd seagull. It was a nice change to have the time to take the MG out for a run as the car has not seen the outside of it's garage for several weeks.