October 2002 – Page 2

For starters … two

For starters… two sets of photos from our wedding day. ”

We got some post at work today from the “Data Protection Registration Agency”. It was a form to fill in to be registered and to comply with the Data Protection Act 1988. It had “Final Notice” across the top of the form. Duncan had filled it all in, before we realised it was a scam. They were asking for £95 + VAT as an administration fee. The form had a government look about it, but wasn’t quite right – that’s how we spotted it. I then did a quick search on google and found this article. Cheeky, cheeky people.

We’ve been working on a new site

We’ve been working on a new site recently – it’s a travel and activity type site, with an associated shop. The gear seems to be pretty good quality so far, and I’m quite pleased with the functionality we managed to deliver – all with either open source products, or written with PHP and MySQL. So, go and take a look at Igloo Life.

while ago read the

A while ago I read the Longitude book. Maybe I read it too quickly, or missed a bit, but I never really understood how
you’d navigate in the 1700s using the stars and trying to figure out the time in London. Anyway, the other night I was catching up on an episode of The Ship and it all became clear: if you know it’s noon where you are right now, and you know the time back in London, you can figure out how far east or west you are. Simple.

In other TV news, you should have been watching
Scrubs and
Six Feet Under (the title sequence alone should have won awards … oh,hold on, it did: two Emmys).