Monthly Archives: May 2008

That’s the ticket !

The full story is worth the click (thanks Lizzy & Dave for the clip)

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The day the magic died (email #5 from iStockPhoto)

The rug was pulled at 08:23 : This is a friendly reminder that your iStockphoto Pay-as-you-go credits will expire within 1 year of the date of purchase. Your Pay-as-you-go credits will expire in 3 days if not used.

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Buses in threes, iStockPhoto emails in fours (with a bit of magic thrown in)

This was the first email at 13:22 (I bolded the important point) : This is a friendly reminder that your iStockphoto Pay-as-you-go credits will expire within 1 year of the date of purchase. Your Pay-as-you-go credits will expire in 15 … Continue reading

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Extending my collection of error messages

The reported error was: Problem with the concurrent query manager in the LibraryThing Bureau of Garbage Collections. We have an entire room of trained monkeys working to solve the problem.

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Code Humour

Credit and more development topics

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The Emperor’s new (online) clothes

Having succumbed to seeing what all the fuss is about with twatter (sic) I can report is that it has to be the greatest hoax since the reported death of Elvis (who is alive and well but I can’t reveal … Continue reading

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Three in a row

Great music from Rachael Sage “Mexico”, Terry Reid “5th July” and Thea Gilmore “The Lower Road” on Bob Harris’ Saturday Show (17th May) – Do listen again. Here’s the full playlist

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Lucky mechanic

Short and sweet bit of fun for your entertainment. It made me smile anyway… (footnote – looking at it on another machine required JRE and it took a little while to download)

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