When I went to collect the mail today there was a letter there from my credit union warning me that they suspected some fraudulent transactions on my credit card, and asked if I wanted to replace the card. They provided a copy of the statment, and everything looked fine. I think they picked up on the christmas presents that I got mailorder which also arrived today. The people that they are for are really really going to LOVE them.

My work with Crystal Reports is coming along nicely. I have most of the fields that I need to in the standard report. I have also worked out how to merge datasets together so that I can use the GROUP feature in Crystal Reports to create some nice reports with correct formatting. Right now my report design is very basic, and ‘Industrial’ but that will improve. I still need to do some massaging of the back-end data to ensure that the data is sorted to reduce any information that should not be there. That should not be too hard.

My next job will be to do ‘JOURNEY’ reports, and ‘ALARM’ reports which require more business rules in the back end. But these need to wait until I have worked out how to sort data in the datasets.

I saw a great quote in the COMP.RISKS mailing list… It was ‘To misquote the age-old schoolboy admonition, “if a sat nav system told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?” 🙂‘