- Anyone who's a regular donator to Greenpeace in the UK should probably check their bank account -- today they debited me 1200 quid rather than my usual 12 quid, and according to my bank I'm about the hundredth person who called them about it, so I reckon the've missed the decimal place out for _everyone_. Maybe there's a _real_ big whale that needs saving somewhere...
Greenpeace
December 29th, 2005
My sympathy goes to whichever poor sucker it was who ended up covering for the usual IT bloke for the end-of-the-year DD collection run. Nasty fiddly job that, and easy to get wrong. The BACS file format has the amount in pennies rather than pounds, so there's normally a bit of the process which multiplies the amount owed by 100 -- I'd guess Greenpeace managed to do that bit twice today. Ooops.