Blog ≫ 2003 ≫ Congestion Charge

What a pain, just sorted the congestion charge¹ for my brother in law² who is driving up to London and has decided to cut through. He's a registered disabled so he should be exempt, BUT to qualify for the exemption he has to fill in a form and send it off, can't do it online, and it'd cost a tenner to process it. SO, it works out cheaper to just pay the charge. Bit of a crappy system really, if it wasn't such a money spinner TfL³ could easily merge in the existing Blue Badge holder database automatically. Nice one!

Today:

+PopEx admin, got 48 pages of junk mails etc to go through, trying forwarding popex mail through another account to get rid of spam

• Chart processing
• More on the Barfly admin system, got group listings merging just about working, next step the band bible

Nice one, this site is now the fifth entry that comes up if you search for Stoke Newington on Google⁴⁵ or the second if you search for stokey⁶... google-watch.com eat your heart out⁷...

1. Removed old cclondon.com link here.
2. Brother in law at the time, ex brother in law as I read this back much later.
3. Removed old tfl.gov.uk link here.
4. Removed old google.com/search?q=stoke%20newington link here.
5. Oh those were the days, when there was nothing else on the internet!
6. Removed old google.com/search?q=stokey link here.
7. Removed old google-watch.com link here.

💬 Family arrive this evening

💬 MJ Hibbett at Brixton Windmill

⬅️ Phew what a scorcher :: How upsetting for Suede ➡️

Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Wed + dad to two, I am a full stack web engineer, + I do js / Node, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation + other diy stuff, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.

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