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The Mystery of John Unwin’s Diary
Two weeks ago I travelled to Saltaire with my uncle to hand over a number of items of historical interest from my grandfather’s papers to the Saltaire Archive.The most significant item in the...
View ArticleCity Labels in OpenStreetMap
In the second part of his critique of OpenStreetMap Justin O’Beirne discusses various issues surrounding labelling of cities in OpenStreetMap’s cartography, specifically in our default mapnik rendering...
View ArticleRails Warning Fail
Recent versions of rails 3 have started spitting out a new deprecation warning:String-based interpolation of association conditions is deprecated. Please use a proc instead. So, for example, has_many...
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Important Information
Apparently my bank had some important information to share with me. I know this because they put an extra page in with my statement headed “Important Information for you” which I reproduce here:Lloyds...
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Yes, I Would Like a Refund
So I recently cancelled one of my credit cards - it was an American Express card with an annual fee that I had only ever intended to hold for one year to get the signup bonuses, and once the fee for...
View ArticleLOVEFiLM and SMS Spam
One thing that consistently annoys me is when seemingly reputable companies decide for some reason that the rules on unsolicited marketing communications, that is to say, in the United Kingdom, the...
View ArticleAre Movie Studios now Restricting when Films can be Reserved?
It has been well documented in the US that one thing movie studios have been demanding in new rental contracts is a time delay between films being released for sale and being made available for...
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Economics, Amazon Style
I’m sure there’s some logic somewhere in the offer that Amazon just presented to me, it’s just not entirely clear to me what sort of logic…All I need now then is an option to have them hold the CD...
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British Gas? or Central Recoveries?
In light of the recent stories about first Wonga, and now the Student Loans Company, pretending to be other people when collecting debts I thought I would point our that British Gas certainly used to...
View ArticleObfuscated Passwords…
A cron job that I run every day to screen scrape some figures from a financial services provider recently broke and upon investigation it transpired that it was no longer able to login to my account....
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