Archive for July 9th, 2007

Banking Errors

Grandad July 9th, 2007

I have just had a very nice e-mail from Allied Irish Banks

Dear Allied Irish Banks Member,

This is your official notification from Allied Irish Banks. Your online has expired.
If you want to continue using our service you have to renew your online. If not, your online will be limited and deleted.

To continue click here and complete the renew form with your current information.

Thank you,
Copyright Allied Irish Banks p.l.c. 1995

My reply:

Dear Allied Irish Banks,

Thank you very much for your e-mail dated today informing me that my online has expired.

I think you must be mistaken though, as I am still online so it seems to be still alive. And I am a bit confused as to why I should be prevented from banking with you if my internet connection fails? Surely I can walk into the nearest branch?

I am a bit puzzled too by the bit about my “online being limited and deleted”. Surely if you delete my online, than that is a limitation in itself? It can’t be both limited and deleted. That’s like saying it would be a little bit dead. Or would it be dead, but still a little bit live?

Please clarify this as I am rightly confused.

Yours sincerely,

Grandad

P.S. I tried your link, but it didn’t bring me to https://internetbanking.aib.ie/. Are you aware of this error? I think you should fix it straight away.

P.P.S. This is 2007. I think you need to check your calendar. You missed out on the Millennium. It was great craic.

P.P.P.S. I don’t even have an account with you….

The problem with podcasting

Grandad July 9th, 2007

I have a wee problem with my podcasting.

I bought all my equipment from a bloke on eBay. He swore it was all the latest stuff, but I’m not really very up to date on these things. Now I find I can’t get spares because the company went out of business twenty years ago. And they don’t make tapes for it any more.

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B*st*rd!!!

So now I’ve got to get rid of it and start again. It cost me €25,000 but I’m not totally out of pocket - I’ve managed to sell it to the RTE Broadcasting Museum for €50. I’m having to make do with an old Philips reel to reel that I found in the attic.

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Herself has taken the plunge. She has done her first podcast! So nip over and leave her a message. Don’t encourage her too much as she’ll get big headed. And I’ll have to spend all my time editing tapes and cutting and splicing. She is a bit of a perfectionist and that podcast only took 63 takes and 8 hours of editing. I didn’t get any sleep last night.

I went for a walk this morning to clear the head.

I thought I’d try my hand at a short bit of Outside Broadcasting [that's what we broadcasting people call it!]