MBNA – PIN security, slightly lacking

March 2nd, 2012 by Richy C. 1 comment »

Due to a card fraud incident (CNP), MBNA have had to reissue my Miles and More credit cards (I have a Visa card and American Express card on the same account). They’ve also issued me with new PIN codes. However, I received one letter today that read:

“Your American Express credit card PIN is here

Please be aware:

  • The PIN for your VISA credit card has been sent to you separately
  • The PIN for your American Express and Visa credit cards will be the same.

“

and another letter reading:

“Your Visa credit card PIN is here

Please be aware:

  • The PIN for your American Express credit card has been sent to you separately
  • The PIN for your Visa and American credit cards will be the same.

“

Yep – both PINs were the same: so why did they have to send two letters (doubling the chances of interception of the letters?) giving the same details? Why not just one letter saying “Here’s your new PIN code – it’s applicable to your Visa card (ending XXXX) and your American Express card (ending YYYY) which you’ll be receiving in the next few days. The PIN is the same for both cards, and you can can the PIN on either card via most high street cash machines.”

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Briggs-Rauscher Iodine Oscillator video

March 1st, 2012 by Richy C. No comments »

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YouTube: Axis of Awesome Four Chord Song

December 18th, 2011 by Richy C. No comments »

I’ve found a YouTube video I’ve been hunting for for a few months now – “Four Chord song” by Axis of Awesome: basically, they don’t think they’ve had a hit record because they’ve never release a single with a song with these four chords which are used in practically every popular beat combo:

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Bye Bye Mangahigh – hello Bairwell!

November 28th, 2011 by Richy C. No comments »

After just over 3 years working at Blue Duck Education Ltd as the Lead Developer/Systems Architect with Toby Rowland and other very talented people (too numerous to name here) building the Mangahigh Maths Games educational resource which we built from a brand new site to being one of the fastest growing educational games sites – I’m now leaving for pastures new.

So where am I going?

Well, my fiancée and I will be starting, on the 3rd of January, a new company called Bairwell Web Development to combine our two talents. Bairwell will be offering WordPress, Perch and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP 5 : also some Varnish, PostgreSQL, Memcache, Perl and Systems administration) development consultancy services – so if you want a well designed (Katy), scalable and responsive (me) website: then please get in touch with us via our web development site (Katy is still working on it at this time of writing), Twitter or Facebook.

Fingers crossed!

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Hosted GIT Repositories

November 26th, 2011 by Richy C. No comments »

Many of you developers have used Github, but when you want an organisation’s code hosted (in private repositories), Github can be quite expensive. The current rates are:

Plan Price Private repositories Collaborators Disk space
Organisations: Platinum $200/month 125 Unlimited 60Gb
Organisations: Gold $100/month 50 Unlimited 20Gb
Organisations: Silver $50/month 20 Unlimited 6Gb
Organisations: Bronze $25/month 10 Unlimited 2.4Gb
Personal only: Medium $22/month 20 10 2.4Gb
Personal only: Small $12/month 10 5 1.2Gb
Personal only: Micro: $7/month 5 1 0.6Gb

(Disk spaces on Github are “soft-limits”)
All packages include unlimited public projects.

So, what alternatives are there?
» Read more: Hosted GIT Repositories

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