Archive for April, 2006

Goldfish / Morgan Stanley credit cards suck

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

I’ve had a Goldfish credit card for years. I’ve never paid a penny in interest on it and have had quite a few hundred quids worth of cashback from it in John Lewis vouchers. Up until today I’ve been very happy with it.
A few days ago I got a statement. £518 quid as expected. All [...]

Cash back from nursery - yay!

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Becca’s nursery rang us today to ask if we realised that we had paid them twice last month. Seems I sent in a cheque for £482 and then a few days later mich sent one in as well. It’s only now they have attempting to sort the books for the last month that they have [...]

referential integrity pluging to directory server (LDAP)

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Finally got around to purging our old users from our Sun LDAP server last week. A quick perl script to find all of the users that msuserpurge had marked as removed and all looked good until I attempted to run it.
First 5 deletes happened almost instantly and then it all ground to a halt. It [...]

Dentist update :-)

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Mich and sprog1 went to the dentists the other day for their final NHS checkup before the dentist goes private as we had told them to stuff their expensive plans (see an earlier post for details). After they are finished she is asked if they want to make another appointment and when quizzed with “I [...]