KEY POINTS:
Paul passes on an extended warning to Xtra users (not the only one SideSwipe has received from an outraged customer): "Xtra have issued an email to customers with domain name email addresses, to advise them of changes they have to make to their computer email settings. They say in their email, 'You'll find it fairly easy to make your changes, which should only take a couple of minutes'. I followed their instructions. The changes did not work and I could not send or receive emails. When I contacted Xtra and explained the problem a lady went through the changes again with me. Still no success. The email failed to work and I was advised to report this as a fault to Xtra. Xtra Faults was contacted, the setting-up procedure repeated, yet again still no success. At this point I changed my settings back to the existing ones to be able to use email. Eventually Xtra Faults phoned me back and said, 'To be honest, Xtra have yet to carry out all the necessary changes on their equipment for the new system to work and we cannot tell you when the changes will be completed, but definitely by June 17'."
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A reader driving past Selwyn College notices that its latest drama production is The Little Shop of Horrors. Can't wait for the fight scenes.
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From Parliament's electronic noticeboard: For Sale: Ancient Egyptian papyrus scrolls (guaranteed to be at least 3 years old) $25 for one, $100 for two.
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Sue Godinet couldn't believe it when she read yesterday's SideSwipe item about the secret towaway zone at the Viaduct. "This is exactly what happened to me on Saturday and I am ropeable," she writes. "I did not see the small cross sign when I parked in Ponsonby on Saturday (I'm not even sure it was there when I parked at 10am as there were no road works in evidence). I parked under a sign that said I could park for one and half hours. Even if I had seen the sign I don't know what it means (it's in the Road Code as I checked when I got home). By the way, there were heaps of other streets I could have parked in. When I got back to my car, it had been towed. So had every other car parked there. (Could we have all been so blind?). The Auckland City Council parking warden looked embarrassed and the tow truck driver was nice to me (gave me a lift to the tow area) and admitted he didn't know what these signs stood for. At $110 a ticket the city council made quite a bit of money out of that street on Saturday."
