deferred until inspiration hits - Latest Comments

Re: Converting Egg Statements and Transactions to Ofx - Chris Roos

Nepa1 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:57:50 -0000

Nice script ...... risky business sending personal financial data over the web.
Your readers could try a good desktop converter from :

icreateofx.co.uk

No data over the net and in a few clicks you have your OFX from a downloaded CSV.

Re: A Letter to Adrian Gillan at Euroferries - Chris Roos

Adem — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:59:51 -0000

Cheers for the support. It'll be interesting to see what replies we get (if any). If they go about this in the same cloak and dagger manner then it's no wonder that people will keep speculating, and the more the proposed service is delayed, the more doubt there will be. If we got honest answers, backed up with evidence, then I would be happy to accept delays, but the more this goes on the worse it is for Euroferries if they hope to make this a success.

Re: A Letter to Adrian Gillan at Euroferries - Chris Roos

Tom Bell — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:22:39 -0000

I'm sure you'll get a positive, carefully constructed response from this chap, he sounds reasonable.*

*There's a fair chance this is a massive load of bollocks.

Re: Turning Off My National Rail Twitter Bot - Chris Roos

Cameron — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:25:49 -0000

National Fail at it again...they seem to think their website is NationalRial.co.uk. Besides their Twitter Tweets are often full of errors, mistakes, typos, etc and also the odd incorrect Short URL (like when they had a problem in South London and they linked to a service disruption 'up north') - I could do a better job than them and they've supposedly got experienced staff!

National Rail are starting to alienate me....

Re: Frustrating user experience with Hsbc online banking - deferred until inspiration hits

Nickr — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:34:30 -0000

Hello all,

I have just payed my VAT online using HSBC Business Internet Banking

HMRC VAT SOUTHEND

equals

SORT CODE: 08-32-00
Account No: 11963155

What a stupid system and a great blog :-)

Re: Fun with mod_rewrite (and its special variables REQUEST_URI, IS_SUBREQ and THE_REQUEST) - deferred until inspiration hits

Steve — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:04:01 -0000

I found this also works perfectly well

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.domain.co.uk/ [R=301,L]

The internal redirect must go through (initially) as a directory request, so gets dropped.

Re: Implementing Version 2 of the Amazon AWS HTTP Request Signature in Ruby - Chris Roos

kavinvikkas — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:44:36 -0000

Thanks a lot chris saved my time

Re: Pouring Factlets Into Your Brain Holder via Your Ear Sieves - Chris Roos

Tom Taylor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:24:37 -0000

Also: wanderin.gs. Just saying.

Re: Pouring Factlets Into Your Brain Holder via Your Ear Sieves - Chris Roos

Tom Taylor — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:45:45 -0000

Love the idea Chris! Might be worth looking at AudioBoo. I think it allows the geotagging of content, and might even have an API.

Re: Pouring Factlets Into Your Brain Holder via Your Ear Sieves - Chris Roos

Tom Bell — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:32:30 -0000

Fantastic, my iPhone can currently tell me interesting facts about random mobile phone masts, as that's pretty much the only gps positioning I get nowadays. That money on tomtom was well spent eh.

Re: Implementing Version 2 of the Amazon AWS HTTP Request Signature in Ruby - Chris Roos

Josh — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:28:15 -0000

You are awesome.

Re: Gracefully Degrade the Google Custom Search Form So That It Works Without Javascript - Chris Roos

Amir — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:04:41 -0000

This is a great post! you saved me a lot of time. I'm working on a wordpress theme which it provides you the basic wordpress functionallity if you don't have javascript, and will provide google custom search if you have javascript enabled on your browser. the theme is to be released soon. Thanks again.

@Roy Badami: Thanks for pointing this out. Your code is really easy and clear. but it uses google search in anyway, so you can't have your own search engine behind it, and it provides uneccessary code to non JS users. But I really enjoyed seeing a so simple and yet complete code!

Re: Frustrating user experience with Hsbc online banking - deferred until inspiration hits

Chris Roos — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:42:56 -0000

Thanks for the update mate.

Re: Frustrating user experience with Hsbc online banking - deferred until inspiration hits

adamclark66 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:44:41 -0000

I have also had a very frustrating time with this,

apparently (according to HSBC telephone help)

Account Number 12001020
Sort Code 08-32-10

is HMRC PAYE/NIC SHIP!!!

Re: Implementing Version 2 of the Amazon AWS HTTP Request Signature in Ruby - Chris Roos

Soleone — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:13:01 -0000

Superhelpful, thanks a lot!!

Re: Automatically downloading my recent transactions from Lloyds Tsb - deferred until inspiration hits

Jonathan Matthews — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:16:06 -0000

Code seems to now live at http://chrisroos.googlecode...

Re: Alternative to Putty Ssh on Windows - deferred until inspiration hits

Gerry — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:21:53 -0000

That is exactly why lead me here via google search! Tabbed putty sessions! What an awesome idea....

And.... how cool if you could right click on one tab (the ssh client keeps your user name and password in RAM) and then passes them to unix/linux box your currently in!

Also if you could self lable your tabs like excel work books -

tab #1 tail -f /var/log/messages
tab #2 nano /etc/samb/smb.conf

that would be great! See this post is 3 years out... so im about to check out poderosa :)

Re: Frustrating user experience with Hsbc online banking - deferred until inspiration hits

Nick — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:26:41 -0000

Thanks for the site.

Additionally HSBC also deliberately * out the sort code and account number on the bill payment confirmation. Apparently the companies on the list (HMRC?) insist HSBC do this. I find it hard to believe we are not allowed an external id to where the money is actually going.

For reference as of today.

HMRC VAT SOUTHEND is sort code 10.00.00 account number 52055000.
HMRC OTHER TAX is sort code 08.32.10 account number 12001020

Re: Frustrating user experience with Hsbc online banking - deferred until inspiration hits

Kaosfx — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:45:19 -0000

THANKS!
It saved me some time...

Re: CruiseControlrb With Passenger and Launchd on a Mac - Chris Roos

mantas — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:23:25 -0000

Cool! Thanks for the tip.

Re: Alternative to Putty Ssh on Windows - deferred until inspiration hits

Nicholaz — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:13:40 -0000

You're probably looking for free software, but if you want to invest a few dollars into a terminal, try ZOC here.. It does everything which putty does, and comes with tabbed UI without using cloggy .net framework

Re: Frustrating user experience with Hsbc online banking - deferred until inspiration hits

Adrian — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:40:55 -0000

Here's a list of all the HSBC names so a Google search with the name in quotes will take us straight to this page:

HMRC PAYE/NIC SHIP
HMRC TAX CR CUMBLD
HMRC NIC QUARTERLY
HMRC VAT SOUTHEND
HMRC SELF AS CUMB
HMRC CORP TAX CUMB
HMRC PAYE/NIC CUMB
HMRC SELF AS SHIP
HMRC CORP TAX SHIP
HMRC STAMP DUTY
HMRC OTHER TAX
HMRC NIC DEF PYT

Re: Frustrating user experience with Hsbc online banking - deferred until inspiration hits

Adrian — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:25:19 -0000

My payment has to go to 08-32-10 12001020 which is "Corporation Tax Self Assessment - Shipley" on the HMRC list. Now does that correspond to "HMRC CORP TAX SHIP" or "HMRC SELF AS SHIP". Probably the latter as this same bank account is also described as "Self Assessment - Shipley".

I had to laugh when you wrote "lots of people seem to phone up about this". Typical bureaucracy: one section knows doesn't bother communicating with another.

Re: Automatically downloading my recent transactions from Lloyds Tsb - deferred until inspiration hits

Chris Roos — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:48:21 -0000

I'm afraid there's no 'how to' and I'm not even sure the code still works (I'm afraid I haven't used it for a while). It's on my list to tidy all my bank downloady things up but I'm not sure if/when I'll get around to doing it. In the meantime, unless you have a grasp of ruby I'm not sure this script will help you very much. Sorry. Chris

Re: Gracefully Degrade the Google Custom Search Form So That It Works Without Javascript - Chris Roos

Roy Badami — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:19:31 -0000

Thanks for that post - I was thinking about this (in the context of the paid Google Site Search, but it's basically the same thing as Google Custom Search) - and your post was invaluable.

Can I present you with the following, though:

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If you don't have Javascript, it uses the version of CSE that presents the results on the Google web site, the code for which is very similar to the IFRAME code. It fudges it by setting cof= to the empty string (rather than omitting it) to make transforming it into the IFRAME version rather trivial.

I couldn't have done it without you, though - so thanks again!

-roy