The call of the sea

Often, after a particularly big weekend, I am forcibly extracted from my slumber on the Monday morning thinking that everything would be ok if I could only have another weekend to recover from the one I’ve just had. Over Easter we decided to put this to the test by spending the first two days of the long weekend down by the seaside. When we returned to London, we then got to have another weekend straight…

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Waterloo for breakfast; Paris for lunch; London for last orders

When they aren’t compromising my personal information, Virgin are actually providing our flat with a nice fast broadband connection. Which is great. I suppose it would be rude, then, not to update you on what I’ve been up to recently. On Saturday, I went on a day trip to Paris with work, which was great. On arrival, we headed over to the Seine for a lunch cruise, during which “a singer and a pianist intervene[d]…

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Surrounded by fools (2): Virgin.net are giving out my bank details if anyone’s interested

Like most people who shop on the Internet, I would never buy anything from a website without a secure (SSL) connection. The Internet being an inherently insecure means of communication and all, it seems only prudent to encrypt personal information like your bank or credit card details when sending them out into the network. There’s lots of nasty people out there, and they’ll happily take your information if you’re dumb enough to offer it up…

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Recipe for disaster

Take one hugely popular music festival: – hype liberally prior to ticket sales commencing – announce Oasis as headline act – run a booking system on a hopelessly inadequate OS for the purpose (Win2K) – use a hopelessly poor web server (IIS 5.0) – write your booking management code in ASP – have only 100 phone lines open – sit back and wait for chaos to happen At 7.59 pm last night, I clicked refresh…

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