solidarity in action

An Irish security firm is on strike today, one that's responsible for filling ATMs. The banks have assured the general public that everything will continue to work (for the most part) etc. etc. So I'm not very amused at my bank's online service being out of commission at the moment.

while I'm complaining

May as well clear a few more items off the list of whines:

Vodafone

• I can have either a paper bill or an electronic bill. If I choose the latter (I do) I get an email AND a text message telling me my new bill is online. I can't switch this off. I've asked, and they've not even understood the question. It's probably not in the three-ring binder.
• The online bill is randomly available in Mozilla. As in, sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. I don't know what's at fault here; I got no help from customer care.
• The bill summary is incomprehensible. Right now it's telling me I've got €55.07 worth of an outstanding balance, but that's not taking into account (as best I can tell) my chosen payment package which gets me up to €75.00 worth of calls per month.
• Data time and call time aren't exchangable.
• The site is an overblown mass of animations and deeply nested stupidity; finding useful information in it (such as "What are my GPRS settings?") is needlessly difficult, and for some reason despite the proliferation of personal-use WAP-based phones, the various pages about accessing WAP and using your phone for data access are all filed in the Business section of the site.

Bank of Ireland

• The aforementioned broken site.
• Frames, when the site is working.
• The WAP version of the site is readonly: you can't transfer money or do any of the other useful things. What's the point in that?
• The site that hosts information about my investment savings account also has difficulty with Mozilla; sometimes the login works, sometimes it throws me to a page that tells me the login failed, and sometimes it throws me to a page that says my session is in some way invalid.

The Weather

It's raining again.

brief positive moment

Wow, I complain a lot. I did have a good night out on Saturday.

brought to you by a post to someone else's journal

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tourist pics

I've taken the liberty of cutting right to the heart of stoat's pix to get to the ones concerning Dublin: start here, waider sightings here and here, last photo here.

ok, stop it already

Comparing the sense of loss over the theft of Munch's The Scream to that depicted in said picture is now officially stale, so don't do it any more, ok?