Alex Harries's diary

This is absolutely fascinating - twittervision pops up status updates from people around the world. Totally pointless, yet totally absorbing (more from timesonline).

This, on the other hand, is rather boring, but it's coming along nicely. Needs a couple more admin features and an "invite" thingbob, but apart from that it's almost ready... To do very little, right now. Soon, though, it'll become part of the UPSU.net core code and my life should begin to get a lot easier horribly complicated.

It's 5am. As the birds rise and my noisy housemates are still being, well, noisy (and drunk) in the front room, I should be going to bed now, but - thanks to the A&L - I have to stay awake long enough to go to the bank tomorrow and pay in £2.36 to avoid a £34 bounced payment charge. This bank seems to be determined to drive me up the bloody wall... Grr!

Peace, love, hugs, flowers, bunnies, and other assorted fluffy crap /al 

I wrote a little while back about taking my bank to court. I've just read this story of a similar claimant - Declan Purcell - sending bailiffs into his local branch to seize the bank's property after the bank failed to refund his money despite winning against them in the courts.

• Find out more at Timesonline.co.uk.

I wonder if this like Real World 2.0 - where user-generated Web 2.0 content jumps into the Real World and bites the posterior of Big Business...? ;o)

/al

Timesonline.co.uk is running a daily 15 minute brain exercise thing - you get 15 minutes to answer 5 questions, with a new set of questions being posed each day, for example "rearrange these 8 sets of 3 letters into four groups of 6 to work out what the scrambled words are: ...." (I spent 8 minutes on that one, was about to give up and the answer popped into my head - who says the subconscious mind doesn't help us out? ;o).

It's not all sunshine, fluffy bunnies and flowers: I've just scored 9 out of a possible 20, which ranks me at a lowly 213 (probably out of 214 people...) so I think I've got my work cut out for me...

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