Urban Ministry Live And Unplugged
A Window On Urban Ministry In Southern Africa
Monday, March 18, 2024
Engineering Puzzle
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Annual Philosophy Lecture
Tamana Church
Saturday, March 16, 2024
LMS Postcards
Spaza Security
Friday, March 15, 2024
Passport Renewal
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Feral Cat
Plundered Garden
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Dormant Accounts and Apple Sauce
I've been chasing up some (possibly) dormant accounts -- eight of them. So far, two yielded nothing, but two contained substantial amounts. Four to go. Yet two companies did something disquieting. They "read back" the account numbers to me ... but it was completely different numbers to what I put to them. For example, I put 144922-01 to one company -- they read back 59902010100. This number, they said stridently, had been closed -- one might call the response "apple sauce". One company freely confessed to changing the number -- and continued the inquiry without blinking. If you're caught out, pretend it didn't happen.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Assaulted by a Gunman
My niece A was brutally assaulted by a gunman today. I'd put up a photo here if she weren't such a "bloody mess". Thankfully she was not seriously injured. Her mother wrote, "We're OK." I said you're not OK. I myself was kidnapped at gunpoint, and I was cool about it -- so cool that my minister asked me to give a testimony in Church (I declined) -- but I suffered shock a few days later. The police apprehended the gunman who attacked A.
AI Failure
I called a UK services provider today, and was greeted by AI. This was quick and competent, and routed me through to the correct consultant. But after the call, I didn't receive a promised e-mail. I called them up again. The AI asked me: what is this about? I said, "The consultant failed to e-mail me instructions for reactivation." That put the AI into apparent meltdown. It went off on an endless tangent of no relevance to me -- as if it were trying to write an encylopaedia entry -- and it would take no further input. Eventually I terminated the call. It was chewing up my monies.