Posts by bettername 14 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Oct 2009
I still have the same laptop, and it still WORKS perfectly.
I even retrieved it from living in a shed for 10+ years in 2012 expecting the battery to have exploded and it be a total mess. Booted fine, and - whoa - there's all my old GCSE coursework and a copy of Commander Keen on it. Happy Days.
"Batteries out and your disassembled phone on the table in front of you, please".
Either of which wil fail unless there is a TSA guard on the door checking for your 2nd device left in your pocket/pants/arse...
Fiver says whoever approved the buying of biccys "for security" is a tad, uh, overweight...
As a Southener (with a 'boro missus) my best tip? Avoid! Although it's hard when you pass pubs with "Thursday nite is Parmo nite!" plastered outside.
They do also have a "London Pizza" (that's kebab meat and chips on a pizza) - but that's a whole other story leading to a North/South fight...
Hmm... I've had two sets of those adapters turn duff on me after a couple of months (thanks BT for sending out a second Vision package for no reason, out of the blue!) and I know of someone else whose adapters "just died". Related? Mind you, it didn't hurt when I pulled them out of the socket...
...that diring out the email wasn't the only cockup... it's an suspicious list of names - beginning of alphabet, in alphabetical order! I'd say they ordered the list by area_name, and not (total_requests / total_connected)!
Not that I've ever forgotton to tweak the "order by" in a query. Ahem.
(Disclaimer: just written our PAF db/queries/tools to replace more expensive 3rd party app, but didn't get the PostZon data)
AFAIK, postcodes "exist" only to help RM route mail, and for the delivery guy to group them together for ease-of-delivery. The fact that people then use them for address-entry simplification, or geo-reporting is a secondary, unintended bonus of them.
Given that they are going to open up the Lat/Long <-> Postcode data (PostZon) should be welcomed with open arms, as that's what most non-commerical uses are for it. If you want commerical access to their work (however hard that is) of assigning postcodes to delivery routes, then surely you should have to pay /something/ for it? Just imagine if every new house was assigned a unique numerical ID, in order of build date - that'd be crap for us, but I bet RM could map that to their internal-only delivery routes for their use.
Having said that, the licence terms are a bit drastic (can't just buy one to cover internal use + webserver use).
That was probably pretty incoherent... but I just don't get what the fuss is about! Hell you can always fire off a query to a webservice like google/yahoo to get PC-to-Address info if you want.
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