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 It is not possible to post comments using the Disqus comments service. This is a coincidence, because posting comments is one of the things that the service is supposed to do.  In Disqus's own respresentations about their service, they do not characterise the posting of comments as a periphal item.  Rather, posting comments is at the core of what they do.  The other thing is serving up comments.  Posting comments, and serving comments.  So posting comments is about half of what they do.  Or don't do. What happens when you try to post a comment?  This:   The background is a high-definition video. This is one of the richest, most multi-media, most engineered error pages in the history of things not working!  If they had put a fraction of the work they put into the error page, into actually being able to post comments, their wonderful high-def error page would not be necessary. It's wonderful to live in a world where the quality of things ...

In the previous article [0] , Easyjet had forced a password reset, and the email hadn't arrived. [0] < https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2021/12/easyjet-fails.html > In an attempt to get a flight booked, I created a new account.  At this point, their web site forgot everything, so I had to start again, entering all the flight details and extras from scratch. After entering the payment details, their web site failed to sell tickets in a new way: they claimed I was a "screen scraper": There is a form, claiming I can complete it and they will whitelist my IP address. The layers of incompetence behind this process are impressive.  Having failed to authenticate their existing customer, forcing an account reset that doesn't work, the customer goes and tries creating a new account.  At this point, they incorrectly think this has something to do with IP addresses.  I can just picture the retard office in which this all "happens". If you treat 100% of new custome...

 I remember around 15 years I had an Easyjet account, and it was pretty easy to use.  It wasn't perfect, but it worked.  You could log in, book a flight, stuff like that. Instead of being for logging in and booking flights, Easyjet have decided to make their 2021 web site be for showing obscure programmer error messages, and forcing account resets for no reason by switching a workflow from web to email half way through.   At least Easyjet had the decency to just say "You need to reset your password", instead of pretending I'd forgotten my password, like some other web sites. Previous instances of web sites forcing resets by email just for the sake of it include spammers Uber [0] and incompetents TAP Air Portugal [1]. [0] https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2021/12/uber-spammers-glitches-annoyances.html  [1] https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2021/11/tap-portugal-web-site-fails-differently.html   An hour later and the password reset still hasn't arrived.  S...

 Since testing positive for Covid on 2021-12-14, I've been isolating in hotel Novotel London Bridge . I've tested positive with my LFTs 2021-12-14, 2021-12-18, and 2021-12-20. I have a view of the shard.  Despite being in central London, and being able to see a lot of space, there is hardly ever a person in my view.  This adds nicely to the apocalyptic atmosphere. At night there is a cheesy light-show by the top section of the Shard.  Are they still constructing the top 15 levels or so, or is it supposed to be like that?  It's just  a frame, a shell.  With scraggy edges. I moved the furniture around so I could do yoga. Overall I'm grateful to the hotel staff, but it's not the slickest service.  It's not a mega-cheap hotel.  If I was running it, I'd probably do a daily package, going each morning to isolating guests. I told them I was positive, and duly got a paper letter under my door, a standard guest covid letter. My initial stay was for 5 ...

prev:  https://wibblement.blogspot.com/2021/12/garsingtons-dumped-cars-and-parking.html I've found out that enforcement for parking in Pettiwell recently passed from the police to a council, I think SODC.  I'm not sure if this is the same as it passing from criminal to civil law.  I thought that happened throughout the UK in the 80s.  But this apparently enabled things to get moving on the enforcement front.  So it's possible this problem is in the process of being fixed, despite its vintage. The issue does seem to be more than just a parking issue, but it's possible that the pollution and safety aspects can also be fixed by enforcing the parking rules.  In summary: there are 15 vehicles. All except one or two are on double yellows, but for much of the stretch these are not visible.  Several vehicles have notices attached by parking enforcement, and possibly other authorities.  One has notices by a private individual.  Two are on private land...

 Multi-choice.  You're an airline.  Should you (a) tell your customers, at every stage there is flight info, their booked flight details including airport and terminal, flight number, etc; or (b) just put vague details like the city, and be ever so squidgy about everything, because you heard about being cool and minimalist. You're a business.  Should you (a) put all relevant information on the confirmation page from the web site where the purchase was made; or (b) the "confirmation page" can just say you've sent them an email, which may or may not arrive, sooner or later, subject to the whims of email, a completely different medium from the medium of the "confirmation page". The first question is a trick question.  The question says you can maybe seem cool by not bothering with things like airports and terminals if you're an airline.  But the correct answer is (a). The second question is a specialisation of not switching from web to email half way th...

 Cars, apparently associated with Greenwoods scrap yard (GREENWOODS OF GARSINGTON LIMITED; Company number 08684758; registered office address 5 Orchard Road, Cumnor, Oxford OX2 9BL) are parked along Pettiwell in Garsington.  From memory, this situation has persisted for over 5 years with little to no effective enforcement. I write this article from a position of relative ignorance, having observed the problems and lack of enforcement over the years.  I don't know the history of enforcement attempts. Today, there were around a dozen abandoned vehicles on Pettiwell.  Most are on double yellow lines.  One appears to be on a farmer's land.  Several have notices of various types and vintages attached.  Some are falling apart; some are jacked up.  In all cases, there is a basic lack of enforcement. According to an Oxford Mail article from over a year ago [1], some of the vehicles are abandoned without Greenwood's permission.  In such c...