Mastercard CC closed

I received a letter from Citibank. They are reissuing my Mastercard credit card because it was determined to be among the ones taken in a retailer breach. I asked which retailer when I called and they did not know or were purposely vague. (I suspicion it was the TJ Maxx hack). TJ Maxx happened before March 30, 2007. Why does it take 2 years to reissue cards?

Credit card companies have a concept of acceptable loss, however, with my identity, money, and credit rating THERE IS NO ACCEPTABLE LOSS!

Credit card companies.... pull it together and get tough with this problem now, or you might be surprised when losses reach a point where they are not acceptable. Prepare for that now while you can.

Content completion does not work - Solved

A co worker of mine uses Eclipse and his content completion just quit working. I have had this same problem in the past as well. He found the answer to it.

Go to Window >> Preferences >> Java >> Editor >> Content Assist. Then click Restore Defaults and then Apply. Evidently something gets garfed in there and it kills the content completion.

Thanks for the FYI Adam!

Engineer humor

This is not mine so credit goes to whoever had the extra time to come up with this. If you are the copyright holder, have your lawyers call my lawyers etc.

Conversion Table:

1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
17. 52 cards = 1 decacards
18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
22. 10 rations = 1 decoration
23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
25. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League

vi gotcha

Here's a little gotcha that I ran into editing a MySQL cnf file on unix. I just opened it to comment out some lines, save and restart. When I attempted to restart it refused and died. So not thinking that I squished it with my ham handed edit, I emailed the SA about it. He found it. After I had commented out my lines and I went to save, I must have hit the '~' key when trying to get into escape mode (its right next to the escape key). The '~' in vi capitalizes the next letter after the cursor.

List of phone regexs for all countries