Nectarines are tasty
You are currently browsing the monthly archive for November 2008.
I just received my dell mini 9 with Ubuntu!
It’s awesome!!!
The keyboard will take some getting used to, just like any baby sized keyboard. But I’m typing this on it. It’s quite nice. One other thing, the wifi integration is great and seamless. Not sure if that’s just Ubuntu or dell. I’ve never used wifi with Ubuntu before.
I’m very happy, even though it took months due to demand.
Tags: babyuntu, dell, kneetop, laptop, mini, netbook, ubuntu
Barclays are morons. They told me they’d cancelled my card, and then I check my balance online the next day and someone had taken out the very last of my money, right after the money my house mate had transferred to me for their rent had been cleared. I went back today and ranted for a bit. They finally cancelled my card. I double checked on the atm out the front and it ate my card. Good. So that makes £1130 they now owe me. Convert that to Australian dollars and gasp.
They never admit fault or apologise, they just say, “we’ll send you some forms they’ll arrive in 2-3 working days”, “we can’t check that from here, you’ll have to call this number and wait on hold for 30 minutes.”
What are blogs for? Complaining…
Someone cloned my bank card somehow and took £900 out of my account over three days from ATMs. Ironically I would have noticed earlier if I’d been able to log into internet banking when I was borrowing my house mates computer, but I left the stupid card reader at home. Barclays wont let you log in unless you carry around an annoying calculator like thing everywhere, it’s supposed to be a security feature. So I’m broke while they do whatever it is they do during a fraud investigation. Presumably I’ll get the money back eventually. At least the rent isn’t due for a while.
It happened right before my card was going to be charged for the computer I ordered. I’m not sure if the transaction will be blocked now or not. If it is blocked, Dell will probably never let me buy anything again. I dread the thought of ringing up their customer service about something like this. They’d probably want a tissue sample of my retina. So I’ll probably be even longer without a computer at home.
Today has been a big pain in the arse. Just the other day the place that does national insurance number rang me and told me they somehow lost my forms and photocopies of all my id when they sent them via their super secure method to HQ. Today I had to go through another dead boring interview with them so they could start again. It took them 2 months to tell me this. I really hate British Bureaucracy. Isn’t the great surveillance state a success.
I’m starting to suspect that when I next try to use my passport someone will have cloned my passport and I’ll be listed on some wanted for terrorism list. So if you hear I’ve left for Australia and I never arrive you know what happened to me. I’m paranoid about my passport, because they take it away from you while they do some kind of security checking magic. Then 20 minutes later give it back to you with a stern frown of apathy. I wonder what they are doing to it. There’s report of people able to clone the chips now super easily. So all it takes is a corrupt office worker to fuck everyone over.
Actually the idea of an office worker being corrupt is almost funny. Could they be anything else? Do you have to have some kind of status of officialdom to be able to be declared corrupt?
Most of the credit card number crimes are probably just bored office workers who have access to this stuff. Ebay tempts them..
Okay enough of a rant. Maybe I can try and think about work again.
