Diary: October 2003

We Love Online Banking

Just logged into my bank to check how much my flatmates owe me this week, and got one of their helpful popup messages:

We have introduced a new 'Personal details' screen, which will display your name, date of birth, home address and telephone numbers.

Well, that's handy, in case I forget my name, date of birth, home address or telephone numbers, but when I can still remember my 12 digit ID code, my password, which must be over 7 characters in length and contain letters and numbers, and my memorable information, which must be over 6 characters and also ...

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We Actually Love Online Banking

Paid the electricity and gas bills today. I need 39 cheques from my flatmates and myself; 9 from all four of us to cover the rent for the rest of the year, and 3 from them to cover gas, electricity, phone and internet from April. I have 23 cheques, 6 missing from Jason (for Feb onwards), and I bet you can guess who I'm waiting for the 10 from...

So anyway, funky web links. Even though I'm keeping yay.org.uk fairly up to date, I haven't had any fun links on here for quite a while ...

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WHEEEEEE!

I have decided to buy a childs tricycle. I will carry it up to uni in the morning and a bag, and then in the evening, I will ride it down the hill. I'll probably pick up so much speed that I'll overtake busses. How much will that rock... you're sitting on a bus, minding your own business, look out of the window and see a guy on a tricycle whizzing past, knees up around his ears, accompanied by a barely audible scream.

How come the internet is so bloody boring? There's nothing to do, apart ...

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Playground Plus Smess Code

I have released version 1.0 of smess for the playground plus talker base; it allows you to leave short messages for people when they are logged out, and they will receive them the next time they log in.

Oh, and if you haven't already, read the entry below and moo!

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