So begins the old Orange tagline.

I think as far as ISP's go, they messed that up. It might rhyme with "bright", but it's only orange if you've eaten something really weird.

Now, I know that they've got a bad reputation anyway, but to be honest I've not had any major trouble with my connection (which has changed hands several times). That is until recently, when they decided to route all HTTP traffic from my connection to this site via transatlantic messenger...

Am I the only person that utterly hates the "Verified by Visa" service?

Every single time I use it, it asks for 3 letters from my password. And every single time I use it, it refuses the letters I enter resulting in my having to think up a new password for it. Yet it obviously remembers the passwords as it won't let me reuse any of them.

You might think that I'm just forgetful, but no. After the last time, I actually stored the new password on my system. Capital...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

That is all.

On the way from buying some groceries the other day I saw this dubious pairing of normally unrelated items outside the entrance gate to a small church...



What other possible explanation could there be?

Well, today was fun.

I finally got my hands on OS4.1 for the A1. The good folks at AmigaKit didn't take any chances, shipping in packaging that could ward off just about anything short of a direct thermonuclear strike. Well, that would be true if fusion detonations didn't have the slight tendency to be tens of millions of Kelvin which is detrimental on most packaging materials, but I digress.

I got back from work this evening and unpacked it. OS4.1 came in a standard...