The power of searching on the Internet can often be undervalued and indeed social networking sites sometimes suffer journalistic criticism. Facebook for example has suffered bad daily press thanks to Liz Jones of the daily mail. Mel Carson at Microsoft ran this by me and I have to concur with his findings. Liz Jones eluding to online safety, warning people to be cautious about sharing too many details on the net is somewhat strange coming from someone who runs a daily diary and has more dirty laundry to air than a nursing home suffering a diarrhoea epidemic.

Such spontaneous, ill -informed generalisations about Search, Privacy and Social Networking I hope will not be taken too seriously. Don’t get me wrong, I love journalism on the whole. The keyword I use here is “journalism”, not just waxing lyrically, at least research the topic. Private Eye recently quoted extracts from Liz Jones’s work, yet more examples of purely being outspoken.

Dan Horton SEO

Iv’e just had a call from my bank about a recent card application I made. The call went like this ” This is the  Alliance and Leicester Bank, what’s your DOB”, “Your Mother’s maiden name” …..erm hang on a sec here,  I raise the question ” How do I know you are my Bank?” … answer ” Well, you could call this number back, but you probably wouldn’t get to speak to me”

Sorry not good enough.

Is this the best our UK online banking services can do ? It could of been anyone calling… What happened to online security let alone online banking ?

Id like to know how many other people have experienced such security holes with their banks.

Recently I was questioned about putting money into my wife’s account, simply because they couldn’t disclose whether or not she had an account at that branch. Another security measure the bank’s use is to say with telephone banking is  ” We need you to put your wife on the phone to confirm it’s ok to speak about your joint account”….erm at this point should you use a high pitched voice and say “Yes, that’s fine, my husband can withdraw my life savings”

I had this Plugin written in house because I was getting abuse on some of my early post’s .. it’s truly awesome when some one leaves a comments like “you sick f*ck how you do that to your cat” and “die f*cker” on this post shaven pussy lol..
2’s things

a) it’s not my cat I said that in the post so rtfa
b) wtf ..YOU where searching for shaven pussy what did you expect to see !!!

If you want the plugin leave a comment and I will get it uploaded later today

DaveN

This is so stupid, Firefox updated, now when I go to places like Bloglines or Google maps it crashes. when was Gbrowser been released again… btw IE8 is just unusable at present

DaveN

With SES just around the corner I have just recently booked my flights to New York, I have chosen to Fly Silverjet again, which offers Business Class Flights to New York, I think I paid just under £1000 great value, I just wish the airport was closer like Manchester or Leeds, but here is my main gripe, Unlike most services Sliverjet states they offer :

Welcome to Silverjet, the world’s most sivilised airline. We’re bringing back the values that have been lost in today’s world of mass travel by offering you a private jet experience for an exceptional low fare. Very sivilised.

So what I read into this is that I could be mixed with Business Travellers, Holiday Makers etc, but at the service level which is going to very high.. OK ..

Now my pet hate “BUSINESS CLASS” now BA were clever, they don’t offer “BUSINESS CLASS” they offer “Club World” but on a recent flight to South Africa, I travelled World Business Class on KLM, well I was on business it’s a long flight and I can work on the plane with the other Business Travellers.. WRONG because the 6 month old child and the 2 year old child travelling with there mother made damn sure I couldn’t work, I felt like asking the mother “So what line of business are your children in, hmmm let me guess they are too young to be in a Business, silly me so what the FUCK are they doing in Business Class”

Business Class should have an age restriction !

Gumpy Old DaveN

added if I’m working on the plane, because you are sat beside me does not mean you can READ MY emails or what I’m typing..