Joey Roth Ceramic Speakers
I’m no audiophile, but I’m in absolute lust over these ceramic speakers from Joey Roth.
Do want.
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Positive Feedback Is Always Good
I just stumbled across a review for my book “Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion”:
Just finished reading this book, and have to say it’s great. The style is easy to understand, and the step by step approach is perfectly done.
Nice!
We are quite a fortunate company, we are a ‘cash company’ ie we have no borrowings nor do we operate within credit facilities supplied by our bank, overdrafts, loans, credit cards etc.
As an IT company which mainly offers service based offerings on annual contracts paid monthly by…
As a personal banking customer, I’ve been stung many times by Barclay’s fraud detection measures. Their score is something like this:
- Number of times my account(s) have been used fraudulently: 0
- Number of times Barclays have flagged my account: too numerous to mention
Now, if there had been some “unusual behaviour” on my account and Barclays had flagged it, I would be a much happier customer. Instead my account gets flagged regularly for things like paying my council tax online.
The best anecdote I have about their detection procedures is our first trip to Australia: we bought the tickets online the day before we flew (a story in itself) with my debit card, used the same card frequently to shop in and withdraw cash in various locations throughout Australia for the next 5 weeks, and then they flagged my account for trying to withdraw cash in Hong Kong Airport on the way back (with no way to unblock my account until I got home, and eight hours to kill in HK). They were really on the ball there…
Château du Lac in northern France (photograph by Alain Dejeaifve)
In the north of France, a more specific location could not be found on the web, remains a 16th century castle, one of the few reminders of that time in the region. Built on the ruins of a castle of the 13th century, this castle is a tasty mixture of Renaissance architecture extended by more common buildings. The castle is surrounded by a large wooded park entirely on a small hill overlooking the village, the valley and a small lake. It is attracting interest because it is of significant size and is an almost unique architectural example.
Château du Lac was built in 1314 and suffered from many evils since then. It literally survived and lingered through time. Victim of fire, military occupation and now sheer abandonment, it is remaining feebly alive in an advanced decaying state…
It has been left behind by its current owners, leaving it to decay. With no restoration for several decades, the roof begins to collapse and the castle has slowly deteriorated into its current state.
Submitted by fuckyeahconformity
This is just plain gorgeous.
Beautiful. My new desktop.
Pre-Owned Numbers
What do you do when your phone number belonged to someone else, and people are now looking for them but getting you?
I recently purchased a US SkypeIn number in an effort to get Google Voice working here in the UK (in the end, I simply haven’t bothered to set it all up). However it seems that my chosen number was either pre-owned or very close to someone else’s number as I keep getting voicemails (because I rarely use Skype anyway, so it’s often not running - I need to look into a hardware phone…) for someone called “Eric Mack” who, it seems, doesn’t always pay his bills. :)
Sorry Sprint et al: you’ve definitely got the wrong number…
It used to be that a phone number was a fairly safe bet - although not a certain one - but as we move towards dynamic phone services like Skype and Google Voice (and the myriad of SIP providers) I’m sure that this will become a more common problem: people newly signing up to the service(s) will get a pre-owned number with - potentially - history attached.
Which VoIP service(s) are you using, and have you had calls for previous “owners”?
