Vincent Feli Boy’s Blog

Now, although she still has a car, Purushe bikes to work every day. It’s a 10-mile round-trip commute, and she carries a change of clothes for when she gets to the office. She says she loves it.

“When I’m riding my bike, I really pay attention to what’s around me, and the weather’s been great. I feel like I’m getting more out of my days.” Purushe also enjoys biking to the grocery store, and the bank. She admits that such convenience came at the price of living in a costlier part of town, but maintains that by not driving, she’s made up for the extra expense. “I know I’m lucky to be able to bike everywhere,” she says.

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I understand that breaches happen and will continue to happen until retailers take security seriously. I’m less angry about the actual breach than I am about how Hannaford handled it, and ultimately, its absolute lack of disclosure to customers. * It took nearly 3 months for Hannaford to figure out there was a breach. Are you kidding me, 3 months? * What really gets me: Hannaford knew something was wrong on Feb. 27 but didn’t contain the breach until March 10.

So for nearly 2 weeks, Hannaford allowed customers to continue to use their plastic on a network that was not secure. Why not shut down all credit/debit transactions? Why not have cashiers advise customers to use cash or a check? * Another week passed before the breach was contained (March 10) and Hannaford announced (March 17). Hannaford was no doubt working with its lawyers (message: who cares about the customers, let’s let them wait another week and subject them to additional fraud risk before we tell them). The way Hannaford handled this amounts to an egregious and unforgivable “breach” of customer trust.

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Ms German also called for a minute’s silence across the country on March 20, the anniversary of the start of the bombing in Iraq. Peace campaigner Bianca Jagger said it was “astonishing” that former Prime Minister Tony Blair and US president George Bush had not been called to account for launching a war which had turned into an “unmitigated disaster”. Still fighting it at 103: Hetty Bower She added: “I urge Prime Minister Gordon Brown to have the integrity to withdraw completely from Iraq and Afghanistan and to set a date now for bringing the troops home.” Among those protesting will be 103-year-old Londoner Hetty Bower - the oldest person on the huge march five years ago against joining a war in Iraq.

She said: “At my age, there is not very much I can do but while my legs can carry me I am going to march.” Protests will also be held across the world this weekend including South Korea, Latin America, the Middle East and other European countries. Bookmark this page Social bookmarking allows users to save and categorise a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. This is different to using your own browser bookmarks which are available using the menus within your web browser.

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