Online Banking:
All the convenience of regular banking, and less! Welcome to the Information Age. Everything you can do by phone, by post, or face to face, we can now allow you to do over the Internet. It's safe, secure, and fast.
Unless of course you're in a hurry and forgot your details. I know that Online banking has to be secure. And that they need to make sure that only the right person has access to account details. But still, some things are faster to do in the good old offline way. I needed to get my Halifax Online account details reset, as I'd got locked out ages ago and not used them since. They're sending me a new Access Code. By post! In late December. And the Halifax always send their stuff by Second Class. So the chance of my getting access to my account over the Net before 2002 is rather slim - to say the least! What's wrong with e-mail? That's what I need to know. After all, even if posted First Class (next-day delivery) it's still taking too long for an Internet-related situation. After all, I could get on the bus, go into town, go to a branch or cashpoint, or even use the Phone Banking service faster than it'd take for the code to arrive by post. So much for Internet Banking! Oh, I'll use it. But, right now, it's not exactly got any of the convenience I need for an online banking service.

Music It really is surprising sometimes how different some music can be to how you'd expect - especially if you've previously heard of the band/artist involved. I'm currently listening to a version of "Carol of the Bells", as performed by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Metallica. I'm not surprised that it's good - I've been quite partial to some Metallica stuff before. But you don't usually expect groups like that to do something so, well, musical and ambient! It's bloody cool!

Yet Another Blogger update Sorted. Bigtime! At some point in early 2002, I'll delete my early 5 rants, and I'll tidy my directory structure up a bit. But for now, 'tis done!!

Sorted!! Well, I've finally got my Blogger account set up. Everything's set up sufficiently. Updates will now occur a lot more frequently, as Blogger handles it all automatically. Other advantage is that I can also add rants when I'm not at home, and they'll still get added to my main site. So this is going to be exceedingly useful. It also means I can actually put up new rants when I'm out and about, and pass a CyberCafe. Oh well, that's it for now.

New Rant Engine Well, I've switched to Blogger for my Rants. This should make things easier. My previous archive of (wow!) 5-ish posts will remain up for the time being. And when I've clocked a good few rants in this service, I'll use my old Archive page to place the older Blog posts.