The Temple of Bague

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Ok, so a couple of weeks ago, some unscrupulous ‘tard nicked a couple of hundred quid out of our bank account and blew it in an online casino. Which leaves us to do all the legwork making and chasing a fraud claim - frankly, it’s a pain in the neck. 

Well, it just so happens that one of the people I work with has just had something very similar happen. Like me, my workmate is absolutely scrupulous about internet security (after all, we’ve been in the industry long enough). Also like me, my workmate uses the card pretty exclusively for online shopping. At most of the same places as me - amazon, paypal, and so on.

So, here’s my theory. I suspect that some online retailer has either “lost” a pile of data or been compromised and they’re keeping quiet about it. Unfortunately for them, I keep records of every single transaction I make, so I will track them down….. 

Another run through. Picked up my shiny +4 katana from the warehouse and give it yet another upgrade then dropped it off in preparation for some future über run. I’m on the mountaintop again, after getting past the incredibly annoying evil soldier. Best way to deal with him, as it happens, is to have a stock of arrows handy so you ca get his ghost before it possesses anything. The rice-changers were, as ever, really annoying.

Or at the very least a platform independant one. I have a few ESX servers at work, running all kinds of virtual machines, but in order to administer the server I need to use the Vmware Infrastructure client - which is windows only. Which is annoying.

Well, the barbeque is on for the third night in a row. Cajun chicken, this time (with a couple of snags on the side). The weather’s been lovely for the last couple of days, despite what the weathermen keep trying to tell me.

What I need to do, though, is find somewhere that’ll sell me a solid plate - griddles are fine and well, but you just can’t do onions on em and using a sideburner and pan is just wrong.