Posts by Ol'Peculier 548 posts • joined 26 Nov 2009
I remember hearing stories about people pulling into their garages* and realising they couldn't get out, so I don't think it's apocryphal.
*the building next to houses that used to have cars parked in them overnight, rather than the boxes full of junk and chest freezers that have taken over...
I've been there three times, and could happily visit more often. I was a bit annoyed once when I asked a tour guide if there was anything about Sir George Cayley there and he said he didn't know who that was (there is a small bit about him on the smaller version on the Mall, FWIW)
There is an observation tower that you can visit that gives great views of planes landing and taking off from Dulles as well.
I used WorldPay's payment gateway from 2004 until about 4 years ago and the only question I have is "how?"
Way back when, they were pretty good that as an authorised integrator I got a small % of all transactions through all the sites I built that used them. Maybe this is their way of clawing some of that back?
We use AWS for a few things, and at one point I was running a MSSQL database with them which I've since removed all trace of. On our monthly bill there is still a charge of about $1.50 itemised to this service.
It's such a small amount I can't be arsed to chase it but I wonder how many others are billed the same thing for ghost processes?
When I upgraded my home broadband connection, just after lockdown one started, EE sent me a bag to put the old one in and drop off at a Post Office.
Did consider filling it with some various bits of IT junk that's in a box somewhere, but decided against it...
(and I know they have shops, but they'd just been closed down)
The premiers ensure that the theatre critics have to get their passports out and travel north of Watford, which is always amusing, plus the they have a big outreach programme which benefits kids and young adults from all around the area.
And as for waste of money, this is the same council that a couple of years ago decided that demolishing the fifth largest theatre outside London, at a cost of over £4 million, was a good idea...
That's what happened here. When our telephone exchange burnt down BT said rather than pay everybody a fairly derisory amount, we'll give the council £500K and the ratepayers can decide what to do with it.
It was donated to a theatre which was taking over and repurposing an Odeon cinema - what is now the marvellous Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round - where all of Alan Ayckbourn's plays are given their worldwide premier.
What is it with DC and spy museums? I've been to the International Spy Museum twice, first time I thought I'd made a mistake and wasted my money, but it is actually quite interesting, once you've got over the annoying introduction...
Still had the same problem all the Smithsonian's had, with masses of kids rushing through at warp speed though.
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Once covered a game at Bradford's Odsal Stadium (where getting from the pitch to the exit was like climbing Mount Everest) and had a pint at the Top House afterwards where some of the players were throwing passes to some of the locals. Don't get that in the Premier League...
Why do companies seem to want to diversify their product into so many different areas? Teamviewer is another one, I don't want to use them for video conferencing, just to remotely log onto other PCs. Same as Dropbox, all I want to do is synch files over multiple computers and servers. If I want to share a spreadsheet with somebody. I'll use Office 365 or Google.
It really gets me when it costs a fortune for Sky, especially when you are after the F1, and they still fling adverts at you.
And if I have to be subject to them, I hope for the sake of my TV that AWS doesn't continue to use the advert it ran in Every. Single. Ad. Break of the squeaky voiced kid going "how do they do that?"
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