by Karlston at 10:03 am
It’s shopping day, so I needed to transfer some money from one Suncorp account to another. Sounds easy? Nope…
I log onto the Suncorp online banking and the helpful “An error has occurred” message appears. I try again over an hour or so, but the same detailed and meaningful message appears.
Grumpy Whinge 1: Why waste people’s [...]
by Karlston at 8:32 am
Bigpond is the largest ISP in Australia, but it has some major problems that really pisses off many of their users, including this one.
One of the worst is Bigpond’s inability to attribute Internet usage to the correct day, and their reluctance to do anything to fix the problem.
Plenty tell their woes on the popular Whirlpool [...]
by Karlston at 11:44 am
Went grocery shopping today, at the checkout I wanted to pay by EFTPOS…
I grab the EFTPOS gizmo and swipe my card, and then the checkout person says “Swipe your card”.
I press “Savings” to select the account, and then hear “Select your account”.
I’m half way through entering my PIN, when I hear “Enter your PIN and…”.
I [...]
by Karlston at 10:28 am
If you answered 7th of January 2009, then you’re correct… maybe…
And if you answered 1st of July 2009, then you’re also correct… maybe…
The correct answer is… it depends where you live.
If you’re in the US then 1/7/09 is the 7th of January, but if you’re in most of the rest of the world, then it’s [...]
