Been trying to give some interesting backgrounds to today's online meetings courtesy of Bing's image creator. Apparently I can easily create an image of a warrior priestess teaching cyber security at University, but requests for a picture of an LGBT church service are blocked!

Finally, I have to make some tweaks to the Python code & Jinja template on the website (which thankfully is easy as it's well written), & a bit of Perl for some back end permissions. And that children, is why we first & foremost teach programming and not a particular language.

edit the document and not the document itself. So now I had to write a powershell script on my local machine which reads the file from the file system and SFTP it to the server. That should be running every 10 mins via the Windows scheduler, but doesn't seem to be.

format and 2) power automate will only work with tables, which the webserver was iffy with. Ok, we can use some JavaScript on Excel automate and get that doing the work. Except, now SharePoint doesn't recognise the file as a basic file and wget returns the web page to

In today's fun, I had to get some information for a timetable and put it on the webserver which expected an Excel spreadsheet as input. Simple I thought, MS Forms outputs to a spreadsheet, so just some simple power automate should do it. Except that 1) Form wasn't in the right

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Happy New Year, and may 2023 be all that you hope it to be.

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Turns out that I do need to let the cat out of the bag....

Thanks - I've done that

Tried that already - your colleagues response was a) to remove SCA from all purchases I made with you (not really an option for somebody in the UK even if I wanted to) or b) use a gift card (kind of defeats the point of S&S). Happy to try again if I'll get a different result.

It seems to be only an issue for subscribe and save - for normal transactions your system asks for the MFA and I have to enter an OTP if it's a new location. Just not for S&S

It's saying that there is a problem with the payment method. I contacted my bank and they said you weren't asking for MFA (as required now in the UK for this type of payment) so they had to cancel it

Thanks, Amazon.co.uk

@AmazonHelp - trying to use amazon subscribe and save, but it's not going through the normal MFA process and my bank is rejecting it. Ordinary transactions work fine though... Hope you can advise

This is one ex tutor of yours who would definitely like a photo of your doctoral graduation - only because I need to complete the set ;-)