ttj - Tom Jones

update: answer is that you log in with your barcode and password from the SOLO service, not from whatever comes up when you search the web for "log in bodleian". I used to be able to log in to the Bodleian's web site, using "barcode" id and a password, and order books to a reading room for the next day.  This was good. Now, their login page doesn't provide that option.  I don't know how the concept of "Oxford Single Sign-On" has changed since I left -- perhaps this now includes mere Bodleian members.  I click on this, and get.. a Microsoft Live web page.  What the absolute fuck. Instead, I try registering for an account, hoping to be able to link it to my existing membership id ("barcode") later.  Nope, it's "identify buses" time: And of course, if you do the buses, then next it's traffic lights, then bridges, then motorcycles, and it never ends.  I'm not falling for it again.  So how do I log in to the Bodleian...

The rubbish collection folk at my new place seem pickier than at other places on Guernsey. Last week, they removed some card packaging that I'd included in the card and paper (plastic) clear bag, and left it on the lane.  This week, they have attached a rejection label entitled "Polite Notice".  Just like modern software-engineered error messages (see attached tag "extremely_general_error_handling"), this does not give a specific reason why the bag was rejected, but instead lists miscellaneous possible "reasons", leaving the victim guessing, or perhaps trying to follow a process of elimination. In this case, some possible reasons, which the label does not claim to be exhaustive ("was most likely because ..."), and of which none apply, are: (i) "did not have the required payment sticker" -- no, I applied to 90 litre sticker; or  (ii) (a) "too heavy" -- no, I estimate it was 3kg, and I easily supported the bag's weight o...