Photo A Day

It’s rather remiss of me not to have mentioned it so far, but as well as surviving my 30th birthday last week, I also reached the end of my photo a day project. In case you were wondering, this is what the last year of my life looked like: I may not have taken the most exciting photograph every day (you may be able to spot for yourself the occasions on which I clearly got…

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UK Financial Institution in “Not Getting It” Shocker

I am so pleased that the Nationwide building society has decided to implement new internet banking security measures. Yesterday, on logging in, I was prompted to submit my answers to five questions from a choice of twenty, and I can now be asked to answer these questions at any time when using the online service. Fantastic: more stuff to remember. This is in addition to the 10 digit customer number, the memorable place, date and…

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I Suppose It Had To Happen Eventually…

So we’ve been recruiting at work for the last couple of months in an attempt to double the size of my team. Well, perhaps I should clarify that I’m currently a team of one, so that’s just the one extra person we’re looking for, but still it’s proving tricky to find a decent technical author to take on the role. It’s been a bit of an eye-opener, actually. You’d think, given that one of the…

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How The Meeja Works, Part 247…

So what’s wrong with this timeline of events? 20 September 2007: Someone at the IP address 90.202.68.194 anonymously edits the Wikipedia page for TV theme composer Ronnie Hazlehurst to add the entirely untrue claim that he co-wrote Reach for S Club 7. 2 October 2007: Hazlehurst dies. 2 October 2007: Lazy journalists everywhere (including BBC News 24, the Times, the Guardian, the Indie…) use Wikipedia entry to write his obit. 3 October 2007: Other people…

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