Why would my local takeaway want my card security code?

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I’m going to give my local Chinese takeaway the benefit of the doubt by not naming them, but the events this evening were a bit strange.

When I telephoned to order a delivery, I was asked for the three-digit security code on my card when I tried to pay. I don’t know about you, but I don’t let that info go over the phone.

The voice at the other end of the phone insisted that she needed it, even when I insisted that I’d never been asked for it before. That’s OK, I was told, you can pay with cash.

I was starting to get a bit fed up by then, and said I’d cancel my order as I didn’t have the cash and wasn’t going to give them the security code. I hung up.

While looking for another menu, the takeaway called back and said they could take my order without the code. I could sign the slip at the door. Strangely enough, this is precisely what they’d asked me to do previously.

So what was all that insisting that I gave them my security code about? I hope nothing fraudulent was afoot.

My site at davidrosam.co.uk has changed

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Just as Dangerous Thinking has changed, so has my site at davidrosam.co.uk.

The old Vamp Until Ready blog content has been absorbed into Dangerous Thinking, while I’ve put a flavors.me site on my personal domain, featuring most of my social media feeds and links to Internet properties.

Why not have a look at www.davidrosam.co.uk and let me know what you think?

Technology is not behaving at Rosam Towers

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Since returning from holiday a couple of weeks ago the digital world has been ganging up on me.

First off, after installing gracefully on to my 2010-generation MacBook Air with just 2GB RAM, OS X Lion has been giving problems on my iMac. With a processor running nearly twice as fast as the Air and six times as much RAM, the Lionised iMac has been crawling from time to time and crashed three times over one 24-hour period.

OS X gone all Windows 98 on me?

Then my Drobo went all wobbly when I replaced one of the disks for a larger one. It’s currently got all the original disks back in and it’s telling me it wants over a week to protect my data. Hmmm.

Then I had a brainwave. Perhaps there’s something wrong with the Drobo? Unplugging the Firewire cable from the iMac seems to have restored it to its speedy, reliable self, some 30 hours on.

Fingers crossed.

But I still have what seems to be a sick Drobo, less than two years old. Bah!

Meanwhile, across at Dave’s sound system, the LDR volume control is busily losing a channel for the second time this year, and something has deleted some of my music files off the NAS.

My mate Jim is going to help me build a new LDR volume control – thanks Jim!

And thankfully I have a full archive of all my music, so I’ve not lost anything. It’s just the faffing to make sure I’ve identified all the missing files.

Does it have to be like this?

Just in case you’re wondering…

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Dangerous Thinking is going back to its original role as my blog – my only blog, in the original sense of the word.

That means I’ve merged DT’s content with that from Vamp Until Ready (was at www.davidrosam.co.uk) and Meals on Blogs (was at www.mealsonblogs.com). There’s an amount of housekeeping and setting up still to do – indeed, the nameservers are still doing their thing as I write this – so please forgive anything that doesn’t yet look entirely sensible ;-)

Audio Chews

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At the end of last year, four friends and I launched a hi-fi and music community – Audio Chews. It was, at first, invitation only, but we opened it up to anyone who wants to join on 1 January this year. It’s growing nicely, with a good core of active and knowledgeable posters.

While there are plenty of places to talk about hi-fi and music on the web, Audio Chews is special because we’re brand-agnostic, treat industry and individual members equally, and seek to promote a real community feel.

I hope I’ll see you there, even if you’re not a hi-fi nut. It is a hi-fi and music community.