Personal Security

In my haze of having a flu, I did see on the tech segment on BBC News channel, a couple of interesting products. Alert me has amongst other things a home monitoring set that poke, text and prod you ;) iwallet is a wallet that offers security from being stolen and yes mislaid. I believe you can pair it with your phone (although it only supports blackberries and iphones) and if they become out of range of each other then alarm bells are set off. The secure server for seems a bit dodgy though.

Happy new year

Well happy new year... That's it really!
Resolutions, drivers licence, get fitter, list everything out.
Bad start, I've got the headache from hell.
And yes strange it doesn't feel like Saturday, lots of shops and places closed today.

7/3: yourdrivingsucks.com

After seeing my family's car being cut up by some aggressive and irresponsible driving this evening. I had a great thought of shaming those drivers by having a forums dedicated to exposing those drivers. Yes you could list the offending car's number plates.
Reality is I wouldn't do this myself because it probably contradict privacy laws in some way!

3/3: Lineside Fire

A fire in Bermondsey beside the train line brought the south eastern network to a complete standstill. However it's not the first time this has happened. This is not the first time it's happened, neither. Although I have to admit I thought it was more recent than 2007.

Stop Press!

Yeah I'm back. Actually I hadn't gone away. I've just been so busy with work and now currently a little off-sick atm.

RM #6: Cheeky Monkeys (Rail + Post)

The weather has caused so much havoc that getting around has been a nightmare.
A few sports events have been cancelled including all of the all-weather racing meetings, which is a bit of a paradox as part of the point of all-weather racing is to provide action in sub-arctic conditions. To be fair, the main reason for the cancellations is due to the fact getting to those tracks have been treacherous at best!

The railways particularly southeastern trains has turned into a real joke. It was announced yesterday that they would be running a Saturday service but in actual fact, the service offered is worse than a sunday service with last trains instead of midnight as early as 8pm. This angered a fair few on Londonist and the Blackheath Bugle. A member of staff admitted that the reason for the service announced beforehand is so that they don't get penalised if they attempted to run a full service.

Furthermore, the peak-rate prices still applied, which is absolutely ridculous considering it supposed to be monday-to-friday service offered. They should at least offer off-peak prices. The same thing goes for the week in between Christmas and New Years where they offer a Saturday/Sunday service during the week.

The Royal Mail are downright cheeky. They were meant to deliver a parcel to me but they did not bother to knock nor ring the doorbell, instead electing to post a card stating please come collect your parcel at the sorting office or redeliver at an extra cost of 7 quid. A joke. Fortunately, a phonecall later and that matter has been resolved by Chris the complainer.

RM #5: Night before the snap

Got frozen before the snow downpour.
Just found this (again) on sql best practices