Shoestring Theory

Currently documenting the house that is eating our lives, we will return to regularly scheduled programming in a couple of more months

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New ways to freak out customers

September 13th, 2008 No Comments

I’ve been having an ongoing political discussion with a friend via email for most of the week. Quite often, I’m working at the same time I’m writing replies to him. There are certain messages for my customers that I keep saved in text files for handy reference. Things like our detailed return instructions, some standard […]

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Confidential British government data included in eBay auction

February 28th, 2008 1 Comment

Let’s play a game! What’s under the keyboard? (Note, not the actual keyboard in question.) Governments really shouldn’t use laptops. They just seem to lose, misplace or let the dang thangs get stolen a little too easily. In another privacy embarrassment for the British government, an encrypted CD with “highly confidential” government data was found […]

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