OddThinking

After putting in my security clearance application, I got a phone call from someone wanting to check a few details.

There’s a new branch of the Bendigo Bank nearby. I don’t want to move my accounts, holus-bolus, until they have proven themselves. This post is an ongoing thread to remind myself of the experiences I have with a Beta Test of the bank over the next three months or so, so I can decide whether it is worth the pain of the full transition.

I have noticed my latest favourite word is “conflating“.

The manager in charge of the test team was gossiping to me one day about the pain involved in running a stability test.

An anonymous war-story about the dangers of relying on GNU Privacy Guard to protect your anonymity as well as your privacy.

Conclusion this week: Not only is my life more dependent on crappy software than ever before, but there is no hope that the software I depend on will ever improve.

When I moved to Sweden, I was a little inexperienced with manual gearboxes. So my first day driving to work alone was a challenge.

During a training course on Ada and the Rational 1000, we wrote an absurdly simple email client.

When it was my turn to demonstrate my software, it wasn’t very well received.

About an hour after I started the check-in process, a horrid thought occurred to me…

I remember the days of using a terminal over a modem on a DOS machine.

It wasn’t that long after these dark ages that I started to use a Rational 1000.