May. 24th, 2004

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In the spam bucket just now:
Dear Sir, I am Chris Parker, a senior manager (protocol) with an American oil services company, HALIBURTON, based in the oil rich niger delta. As you might have read in the international media last year, Haliburton was involved in a bribery scandal running into hundreds of million US dollars here in Nigeria.[...]
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  • Dealing with another telco, this one the shower who provide my cellphone service. At some point over the last $period, all my online bills, invoices and call logs were replaced with Folger's Crystals^W^Wblank pages. When I emailed customer care to enquire about this, they asked me to email my self-service access passwords (there are two) to them. Now, the second password is just the last four digits of my customer account number, which I refuse to believe they don't have access to, but seriously, kids. Send you my password by email? HELLO? La la la. So I changed the password to something else, then sent them that on the princple that it's not my SEEKRIT password and I can change it back when they fix the problem. I will skip over the fact that the three-ring binders I gave the password to cannot possibly have sufficient access to fix the problem if they don't have access to my password information or a system that allows them to pretend to be me, but I really can't be bothered having another protracted argument with a telco.
  • In dealing with the above, I notice that each of their emails ends with the following paragraph:
    Can I also ask you when replying to this mail, to reply with history so we have all details below.
    From past experience, I know that this means "please top-reply because we don't understand the whole "quoted text comes before reply" thing", and I note with the current exchange that they don't seem to adhere to their own advice.
  • On the end of one of the mails:
    For information on self services options and Vodafone Products and Services , please go to www. vodafone.ie\my vodafone
    With that exact formatting: a space after the first dot, and a backslash, and a space after the word "my". Which, needless to say, is not exactly a functional URL.
  • Finally, work-related: an image-installer, akin to Ghost. Except apparently it can't repartition a disk; it gives no indication when you should put in the "Main" disk; the "Main" disk is the last disk in the set, but it doesn't prompt you to swap things around and put in the first disk before it attempts to restore the image; and when it comes time to change the disk, it alerts you with... a media error. Yes, it tries to read off the end of the disk, and when you click "Retry", it suggests you insert the next disk. Outstanding.
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The imaging crud doesn't fix the MBR, either. HELLO STUPIDITY WITH FDISK AND LILO AND GNGHGNGNGNG
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Just watched the final episode of Friends and although I've never been more than a fair-weather follower of the programme, I did feel a few twinges of sadness - mostly thinking about my own friends over the last ten years, and how we've drifted apart both physically and in terms of relationships - I think it's pretty safe to say that I was a lot closer to most of those I'd consider friends ten years ago. Also noting that it took Ross ten years to get to the point that J.D. in Scrubs reached in the middle of season three vis-a-vis relationships and speaking your mind and whatnot. My personal jury is still out on the advisibility of such actions, but I guess someone's got to live by the "nothing ventured, nothing gained" maxim. It just ain't me.

In other news, tonight's bike run was almost bang on 10km - I discovered a 10km route that doesn't involve either Dalkey Hill or stopping at some arbitrary point and turning around. I stopped at Teddy's for a 99 on the way back, which is most likely utterly meaningless to anyone who hasn't spent some summer time in Dun Laoghaire.

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