2013 — 2 April: Tuesday
Is it possible1 Spring has finally decided to lurch into some sort of action? It's cold and sunny. I shall ponder over another cuppa and some breakfast crumbs.
Reverse Parallel Parking (Take 2)
As a service to the two readers (so far, this month alone) who (if my server logs speak truth) have stumbled into 'molehole' misguidedly looking for tips on reverse parallel parking it amuses me to make them more easily found. And, trust me, if you ever watch me reverse parallel parking you, too, might well be amused. But be fair: it is said that Caruso's voice teacher couldn't sing a note.
I'm (very) easily amused. In researching the 'best' place to relocate the parking notes my first thought was in the "other" subdirectory. Logical, Mr Spock? Nope, no can do. That's where I keep the .htaccess file on the external subset of 'molehole' to gently deter inquisitive browsers from some parts of my nefarious little web. OK. How about creating a new "misc" subdirectory and stashing the files there? Nope, no can do.2 Hence "rambles" (which I'd originally intended to use for the diary jottings until it struck me that "diary" might be more appropriate).
The only other file in "rambles" was one of my early attempts to show a reasonable-looking Error 404 — page not found and obfuscate my email address. I'd obviously forgotten to change this one as I wasn't intending to make further use of the subdirectory.
Now, how about that breakfast, before it overlaps lunch and gets called brunch? It's 11:00 and still sunny.
Recall the...
... huge clue to the reason I left the clutches of Santander last month?
It's not too hard to deduce (from this new clue) whether I yet regret my decision:
Christa would be proud of me :-)
Even though I paid 96 times more tax!
Sometimes...
... the semi-hidden texts that Mr XKCD pops underneath his maniacally witty cartoons are just... pure... genius. This one, for example:
A riff on the essential plot of "Terminator 2". I am in awe.
I am less in awe at the bedraggled scraps (un)adorning the shelves of Waitrose after the attack of the local long-weekend vultures. But a chap still has to eat.Meanwhile those awfully...
... grasping folk at the Maryland Bank of North America — who clearly believe I'm at least as stupid as they are (they may be right) — have written (again) to remind me (again) that they have already written before to remind me (again) of their once-in-a-lifetime offer of free cash and balance transfers until the end of this month on to their grasping credit card.
That's the card with the tiny print spelling out the minimum 3% fee and the unadvantageous results (to me) of failing to clear the balance (card purchases and any such transfers) in full in one swell foop.
I wouldn't like to say they're actually evil, per se, but...
I had no idea...
... that Tim O'Reilly (yes, that T O'R) once wrote a book about Mr Dune. (Link.)