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Chris, you know what the cockney rhyming slang "Barclay's" means?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Barclay's Bank.
Yeah.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Actually "Barclay's Banker" - the second word is the rhyming key and is normally dropped e.g., Butcher's [Hook] = "look", Ruby [Murray] = "curry".
I'll leave you to work out the translation, otherwise we'll need to move this to SB! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Mate, I'm Australian. I get it 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I knew that.
I also believe that you Aussies have your own rhyming slang following a similar model (isn't Oscar [Asche], cash)?
Sorry, I didn't mean to teach granny how to suck eggs, but I wasn't 100% certain if you knew the translated term (as Canucks generally don't!) 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I've been here 14 years and I still don't know how to say "eh" properly. eh.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That's one way to block SQL injection! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I bank with a very, very well known bank whom I won't name.
In Australia or Canadia?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Straya
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Many online forms ask for a 10 digit telephone number.
Some insist on no spaces, others require spaces, still others
require a dash and some want the area code in brackets.
Is it that difficult to write code that accepts any
reasonable style?
73
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As they require alphabets - plural you could always reply cycling through Roman, Greek, Cyrillic and for the numbers Ascii, ebcdic and unicode encodings for the punctuation. Of course strictly speaking you should include the complete alphabet in each case. 
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Here in the UK we don't tolerate that kind of crap. Sometimes the back-end falls over, but the customer-facing side is licketty-spit.
But seriously, my Blackberry Z10 has an app from my bank which is a joy to use. Presumably reasonably secure as well. I can see all my dineros in big font detail that fits the phone screen perfectly.
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By Chance was the Caption for the Submit button one of these:
- Circular File
- Pump and Dump
- Send and Forget
- Register as an Offender
- Ask about our amazing 0.00001003% APR
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Similarly, I went to make a credit card payment on my phone the other day. I found I could not schedule the payment for a specific date.
So, I found the 'send us feedback' part of the app and wrote a message about how bad this was (they're bad in a number of other ways, but like this, typically it's not end-of-the-world bad).
Submitting resulted in an error that the module could not be found or some such.
Sigh.
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Chris Maunder wrote: These guys are managing my money. Seriously scary
Stuffing cash in a mattress is sounding increasingly like the best choice these days. Our bank sent us an email with a click-here-to-install-this-app link. App was new, buggy and didn't work (wife trustingly clicked the link and installed the app). Bank didn't even know they had sent such an email that violated their own no-active-links-in-our-emails policy.
Chased it down, all was well, it turned out it was sent by some vendor they outsourced to.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I bank with a very, very well known bank whom I won't name.
Name names! If they're that bad we should be told so we can avoid them like the plague.
Speaking the truth isn't libellous.
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Just had an email from a site I sometimes buy old games from - I won't say who for fear of activating the spam filter - informing me of changes to their privacy policy.
Normally this means "we're going to sell your ass to everybody!" so I thought I'd better look.
I was surprised to find the page has two versions, side by side:
LEGALLY BINDING VERSION "ENGLISH" VERSION
1. WHO WE ARE
1.1. We are [REDACTED], a company incorporated in
[REDACTED] with its registered office at [REDACTED].
[REDACTED] is the data controller under European
Union data protection legislation. Hello, we're [REDACTED] and we are based in Europe!
... Dunno why, but it tickled me!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is that GOG?
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The PP on GOGs site is in a single column format...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Not the one I went to: if you look at their support/policies/gog_privacy_policy page it's two column.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This is the one I get from the footer on their front page. Still one column.
http://www.gog.com/support/policies/privacy_policy[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I wonder if they realize they have multiple versions posted on their site...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They do sell Good Old Games, yes - but they seem to be preferring rather rubbish movies at the moment.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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