[snarlspit]
So off I trot to the Post Office to send off Lutra's latest parcel, a wee parcel of speciality teas for Thorne, to welcome her new teapot, and the first part of the current project (Special Delivery + consequential loss insurance, which has now become standard) feeling quite pleased, as I'm two days ahead of deadline (though my hands are bloody sore...) I then dive speedily into Sainsbug to grab a few odds 'n' sods, then over to
The Range to see if I can find a big, cheap corkboard (need one to pin up all the Haadri reference material that won't fit anywhere else.) I've just added a new silver washing up drainer to my basket when I get an urgent phone call from Ken. Who is ringing me on his mobile, as he has our bank on the landline...
Did I know someone was trying to buy over £600's worth of computer stuff online using
MY VISA DEBIT CARD DETAILS?
'king WHAT!!!
Can we say ready to kill? I'm as strict with personal security as I am with computer security. I don't even leave my details with any of the online ordering services I use! But we know from that
Watchdog horror story (banks stuffing thousands of customer records into black bags - not even bloody
shredding them! - and leaving them out for rubbish collection) that other people aren't as intelligent...
[takes deep breath] Anyway... Our bank - that's the
Co-operative Bank, by the way, who are absolutely wonderful, not to mention the most ethical bank there is - explained that the bastard followed the usual identity theft/fraud procedure, first opening a Carphone Warehouse account with 1p (to prove the card was still live), then making a £10 donation to Christian Aid - and it was
that that alerted the bank. They then refused to process the attempted online sale and cancelled my card immediately (just as well I'd got a cashback at Sainsbugs!), then rang Ken. Who of course got their details and rang them back to find out what it was all about: we don't give out any details to cold-callers.
Upshot is they'll refund the money that
did get through, and send me a new card and PIN, but that will take about 5 working days. A bit of a nuisance being without the card 'til then, but rather that than the alternative.
Then there was tonight... Went to log on to blogger to post this update, only to be faced with a screen saying 'We're moving your blogs to the new blogger' (and if you don't want to, which I don't, too bloody bad). Growling loudly I went through the procedure, got a Google account and sat back and twiddled my thumbs while the software tried to migrate all my blogs. Tried being the operative word - after 5 minutes I'm presented with a screen that says:
Thanks for your interest in the new version of Blogger. An error has occurred that has prevented us from switching your account at this time. Our engineers have been notified of the issue, and your blogs and Blogger account should not be affected.
Please try switching again later via the promo in your dashboard, and please remember your Google Account information as you will need it to switch to the new version of Blogger. For now, you can still log in to old Blogger using your original Blogger account.
Thanks for your patience,
The Blogger team
Heh. I broke blogger...
But I
did manage to find a large, cheap corkboard for the Haadri stuff, so the afternoon wasn't a complete disaster.
Going to go work on a voodoo doll now for that thieving bastard. A month's worth of stinking, burning diarrhoea will do for a start. I'll think up some more refinements later.
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:59 pm
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