I am working on a project that is using Django. We have decided to use ‘South’ which is a migration framework which tries to do for django what rails has out of the box. This is the first posting of…
Boldly striding backwards, into the future.
Money, where is it going? and how does it get there? Today, I discover that the fastest way to pay a bill is with my debit card. AND THAT IT TAKES 3 BUSINESS DAYS. Think about that for a minute.…
Ahhh, the wonders of insurance.
Our washing machine has started to make startling and alarming noises, so Wendy phoned British Gas. Not strange, we have insurance cover for many of our whitegoods and plumbing with them. While arranging a visit for the washing machine the…
Bankers! no better words
I pride myself on being able (in some little way) to put words down in roughly the right order. But I can’t do any better to express my outrage, disgust and horror. Bankers are still a bunch of parasites Nuff…
SIGINT: Too little, to LATE.
SIGINT is Signal Intellegence. It is the art and science of extracting meaningful information from the fact of communications. Not the contents of communications, but the fact a particular set of communications took place. Historically it has been an important…
NPOWER Gas Bill Shellgames
We have recently moved our gas supplier from NPOWER. When with NPOWER we have been having meter readings, some estimated but many actual readings. In addition, we have been paying by direct debit. So, I was very surprised to receive…
An Enigma? It’s a bloody liberty, that’s what it is!
I have just finished watching U-571. An American made film about capturing of enigma equipment during the second world war. Now, I went in, KNOWING that I would be annoyed, but willing to forgo historical veracity for the sake of…
My time is MY time, not YOUR time.
This is my first ‘Mr Angry’ post in a while. But, here goes…. RANT on!!! I just received a phone call for Wendy (the missus). I picked up the phone, said…. ‘Hello?’ silence… ‘Hello?!’ click… ‘Hello, may I speak to…
Filthy Starbucks
Cory Doctorow in a recent BoingBoing posting says… That Starbucks in Britain are filthier than their US counterparts because the US customers are conditioned to clean up after themselves while the British customers do not. Well, maybe, but its deeper…
Viral Marketing
I would love to own an anti-virus company, but I just don’t know if I would be able to sleep at nights. The other day, I had to do something to my sons laptop, and when I logged in, the…