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Archive of entries posted on June 2010

I think Quidco have a bug

I think Quidco have a bit of a mail merge bug. I just received the following email: I wonder how many of those they’ve just sent out…

Playing the Mobile Phone Tariff Game

As a low volume mobile phone user I have, for the last ten years, been on an Orange tariff known as OVP Virgin which price matches the original Virgin Mobile tariff. This is essentially a pay as you go style tariff, with no fixed monthly fees, except that it is paid in arrears by direct [...]

Oxenden or Oxendon?

One of the data sets released by Ordnance Survey as part of the recent OS OpenData release was OS Locator, which is a gazetteer that basically lists the name of every road in the country along with a bounding box for it. ITO World have now made use of that data to do a comparison [...]