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British Telecom have been pushing people for years now to sign up for Direct Debit, charging extra if you don't sign up. However, if they wanted to keep their costs down then they could start closer to home. I got my latest Business Invoice dated 24th January. This week I got a "red reminder". When I checked my records I had paid them via...
25 February 2009 Whatever...
If you've enjoyed the festive season and overindulged, and you're at over 90% of your Credit Limit on your Halifax Credit Card - then beware. You might not have noticed but the Minimum Repayment and your Direct Debit has dropped to 1%. Since the Monthly Interest Rate is still over 2%, your debt is increasing even if you never use the Card. After a ...
29 January 2009 Whatever...
I wrote about the UK Government Gateway last week https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2424 This week the HMRC came under fire over site security http://newswires.vnunet.co.uk/c/1ey330huZqV9pWmp In the latter article the HMRC said that the URL does not contain the password but shows a Unique Taxpayer Record (UTR) which is not based...
I run a Children's Charity in my spare (!) time, and since I have 50 Employees the HMRC required me to to Register with the UK Government Gateway in order to make my End Of Tax Year Returns electronically. I didn't get the option of chosing an easy-to-remember User ID, they gave me one - 12 characters NNNANAAAANAA. Then OFSTED come along and tell ...
22 January 2009 Whatever...
One is accustomed to being assured that Airport Security ensures that you show a Passport in order to check in, then show your Boarding Pass (but often NOT your Passport) to get through Security to Airside, but finally show both your Passport & Boarding Pass to get on the Plane. On Fri 9 Jan 2009 I was flying with American Airlines from NY JF...
12 January 2009 Whatever...
For those of you who have been out of touch during the festive season, on New Year’s Eve reports began flooding across the Internet that Microsoft’s Zune media player was experiencing a worldwide freeze. The glitch, caused by software that did not account for the extra day in the 2008 leap year, apparently affected only the 30GB Zune models releas...
05 January 2009 Whatever...
Full story available at http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/05/30/230883/password-sharing-leaves-nhs-audit-trail-in-tatters.htm Investigators have been unable to trace a doctor involved a medical blunder that ended in a patient's death because staff in a Devon hospital had been sharing passwords. The doctor whose password was being used w...
02 June 2008 /security /regulation Whatever...
Here we are over 2 months after the initial Child Benefit fiasco; you would think the HMRC would have introduced controls to accept encrypted media? The Information Commissioner just issued Marks & Spencer with an Enforcement Notice giving them until 1st April 2008 (ie only 2 months) to complete encryption of all their laptops http://www.ico....
01 February 2008 /security /regulation Whatever...
Sunday my daughter got an e-mail purporting to be from Natwest saying that someone had been trying to access her Online Banking. E-mail said they had temporarily disabled her Online Account and if she wanted to use it again she had to go and re-confirm her identity. She clicked on the link supplied, which led to (what she now knows to be) a facsim...
31 January 2008 /security Whatever...
The former Inland Revenue supplies a PAYE Calculator on a CD-ROM. Adding a new starter today, when I completed uploading her profile I got a warning message “this employee is beyond retirement age”, which would have reduced her National Insurance contributions. I was confused, as she’s only age 50, so had there been a change in Legislation I hadn’...
18 January 2008 Whatever...
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