I haven't updated this in a while so...
Congratulations to Maxwell Someone who was introduced to the viewers of BBC Breakfast on Friday 13th as a "Broadcaster". Now to be honest I have no idea who this is and I wasn't interested enough to hang around to find out.
In case your wondering where the "Our Survey says" thing has vanished to, well the unrelenting predictability was starting to get on my wick. Needless to say the BBC (and others) are still publishing surveys without even the most cursory examination of the data or methodology. Worse no-one (apart from me) seems to capable of treating the results with any scepticism. So in the last week we had a survey (commissioned by a company flogging security solutions to retailers) which claimed customers are reluctant to spend money with companies which have experienced security breaches with their electronic payments. Which is bollocks. Customers are reluctant to spend money with companies who make these security breaches public. I've heard stories about some well known organisations (unsurprisingly not mentioned in this survey) which would curl your hair and empty your bank account at the same time. So all this result demonstrates is "what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve".
In a similar vein the much vaunted Chip And Pin system has been exposed as not being quite as fullproof as we've been told, with thousands of motorists finding their card details passed to Tamil guerillas. God things have changed. In the old days all you would get with your petrol was some vouchers for either World Cup coins or worse, tumblers. Now it's a free surface to air missile for the Tamils with every 50 litres.
I suppose if you're buying petrol from Esso you could actually be putting a Tiger in a Tank
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