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Cold call from AON
Just had a cold selling call from a company called AON asking for me by name (using my old name) and asking when our Professional Indemnity Insurance was due for renewal. The woman I spoke to was nice and polite and did say she would remove us from their calling list when I requested. Caller […]
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Property sites XML data feed specifications
More as an aid to my memory, but it may be useful for other people, here’s a list of property sites XML (or similar) feed specifications: Rightmove (not XML, but their “Automated datafeed [ADF]” aka BLM system which needs uploading via FTP) ThinkSpain Kyero Trulia RentalAds Zillow Hotpads Green acres Home.co.uk Property Abroad Any one […]
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[Movies] Brave or Braver
Is it really non-commercial “piracy” “killing” the movie industry, or is it due to things like this which I saw in Sainsbury’s a month ago. Yep, Disney/Pixar’s “Brave” has only very recently gone in the cinema, yet “Brightspark” has “Braver” out about the “Bravest Princess in all time”.. Hmm…
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Techy: How secure are credit card numbers
From my “over a year ago” post about test credit and debit card numbers, I did wonder how unique/secure a credit or debit card number is. For example: If I knew “x” digits of your card number, how many possible cards would I have to guess at to hit your credit card number. I’m basing […]
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Marking old posts
I’ve just added a piece of code from “Jem on WordPress” to flag that content older than 6 months on this blog may be inaccurate and not reflect “now” (this comes as I’ve just realised this would be my 996th [19 private, 6 drafts] post in a period of time spanning 15th of October 2001 […]