Posts by Colin M Fitzgerald

Cops seek 179mph net vid biker

To Befuddled American

That's our European neighbours for you, give 'em 2.54cm and they'll take 0.9144m

Sorry Richard, your humour was let down by your knowledge of old sayings !

It should have read 1.609km (or 1609m) !

Egg.com server cracks

Re: Eggstremely Poor IT

PJH

Thanks for the info. Yes it is Money Manager that was the problem.

Funny how Egg didn't tell me that it wasn't their product !

Using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 by the way.

Eggstremely Poor IT

Doesn't surprise me that they had no backup strategy.

Their site uses MSIE only - and when I asked when they were implementing a Firefox-friendly site, they said they had no plans to do so - I had to use MSIE.

......or did they say "You've got to be Yolking" ??!!

Sorry !

DVLA urged to consider number plate recognition

Go get 'em

Whilst they are at it, can they also recognise and fine those plonkers who play with their number plates to inflate their egos, causing them to be sometimes almost unrecognisable.

The law was changed when the "new-style" Reg. Nos. were brought in to stipulate only 2 fonts and a regulated spacing on plates. Does ANYONE enforce this ? Judging by the explosion in instances of them, I don't think so !

I understand that in the USA (where personalised plates are quite the norm) that all plates are actually produced by their equivalent of the DVLA - or am I mistaken ? It's due to the ease with which plates are obtained that there are so many false ones about.

Moan over but a serious issue I think nevertheless ?