Stupid banks

1. First I get a SMS claiming to be from my bank, asking me to call a number I have never heard of about my credit card.
   
2. So I check my account through internet banking, while calling my banks normal call center and supply my normal security details. They don't recognize the number I have been given but put me through to their credit card department.
3. I realize I have missed a credit card payment, so I pay off my entire balance. I should point out that I have many times my credit card limit in my other accounts.
4. I give up on the credit card department after several minutes on hold.
5. At home while cooking dinner I receive a call about my credit card from some one claiming to be from my bank. After asking for my by name, they then proceed to ask me for my customer number and password. *Click*, I hang up without responding (if you don't understand why, keep reading)
6. I call the main call center again, this time I do get put through through my credit card section. I answer my security questions, and they say that they have been trying to call me about an overdue credit card bill. I tell them I have just paid it and they check, apparently their autodialer is only updated overnight.
7. I complain that they called my and asked for confidential details when I have no way of knowing who is calling. They say that they have to comply with privacy, and if some one doesn't want to answer they give then a phone number for them to call back.
8. This number is not the mail bank call center number, and there is no easy way for a client to verify that they are calling the bank and not a scammer.
9. I say "thank you for reminding my why I don't want to stay with your bank in the future."
   

Bill Gates as a caddie?

I love this quote.

"When I wrote Solitaire for Microsoft, I unleashed a monster of unproductivity onto the world," Wes Cherry, author of Microsoft Windows Solitaire told Sophos. "I bet there are millions of bosses out there who hate me. If I had a penny for every hour that has been wasted playing Solitaire in the office, I could hire Bill Gates as my golf caddie."

This is the source. This is a news release from a security company who's virus scanning software now has the ability to block people from running windows games.

Isn't there a group policy that does this anyway?

This is bill gate's bio from the Microsoft site. According to Forbes, bill gates is worth $50 billion (as of 2006). Ouch. According to this site, he is exactly one year younger then the current president of Iran, Mahamoud (mahmoud) Ahmadinejad, and 12 years older then Julia Roberts. So much for star signs.