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Monthly Archive for September, 2008
OK, maybe not tea, but coffee.
Something that I find bewildering is the need by many office workers in London – and I assume this isn’t just confined to London – to wander around before and after work clutching cardboard cups filled with expensive coffee from all those coffee shop chains.
Why?
OK, as anyone who knows me knows, I’m a bit of an addict when it comes to caffeine and I do appreciate being able to grab a cup and sit at one of their tables and watch the world go by when I have time to kill before visiting a Client. But why would I want to buy an expensive – and let’s face it, not really all that good – cup of coffee on my way to the office I work at, when I can (and do) make myself one in the office kitchen when I arrive?
Maybe I just don’t get the whole yuppie fashion thing?
And the award for Most Pointless Text Message today goes to Vodafone:
“We continually invest in our network to provide a reliable service & you’ll be pleased to know we’ve now improved coverage in an area where you use your mobile.”
Excellent! Which area is that? Given that I live in South-East London during the week, work in South London, visit clients in Central London twice a week and travel home to Norfolk each weekend, wouldn’t it have been an idea to tell me which area had been improved?
A little bit of fun and games today thanks to the British Gas web site. I wanted to change my log-in details as a usual security update so I logged in and accessed my account. I chose a new password and submitted it and an error was thrown up: basically the chosen password was too short.
So I went back in again and tried once more with a much longer password. This time, it failed again as the password has to include at least one number.
So I tried again.
Now wouldn’t it be good if they could have told me that the password had to be between x and y characters long and include at least one number and one letter in the same error message? Sloppy coding, boys…
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