I believe I have just had a call from a cybercriminal. Some people calling themselves windows operating tech support centre wanted me to check my system logs for errors and when I found a few errors they claimed that this was evidence for massive infection of my system. The then wanted me to type a url in to the run box. at his point I googled the ( Read more... )

On Tuesday I set off for the worldcon in Reno. I expect to have full internet access while over there. In addition I have obtained a sim from a company called holiday phone. For a fixed price I have an american number with unlimited US calls and a fair amount of data download but it also gives me call forwarding from my UK number to the phone while ( Read more... )

After our burglary two weeks ago my replacement camera came on Monday. It is exactly the same make and model so no new learning to do but I have realised that leaving hundreds of photos on the camera memory leaves me open to irreplaceable loss. It is my intention to scatter pictures in various places as soon as possible, the computer at home, ( Read more... )

At the end of August I was made redundant from High Storrs school after 33 years. I was given my minimum legal redundancy payment and led to believe that the cost of living increase, due from April, would be paid in due course. I have been doing supply teaching and last week I was in a school as the pay slips were being given out. There was some ( Read more... )

I quite like3 where this starts Ocelot

The advertising for Natwest says that they do things differently. I've just experienced it. I am Treasurer of the local branch of my union. I inherited a Natwest account. Eighteen months ago we attempted to change the signatories on the account. Despite filling in the forms correctly and having the new signatory provide his details and methods of ( Read more... )

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Today I have been mainly waiting for people to answer the phone. Number one for total lack of service is BT ( Read more... )

I have just been told that our new whizbang MIS has just managed to import our geology results (about a dozen candidates). Well that's only two days late and most of the results short.