Archive for December, 2007
Blog Carnival of Data Quality
In a break from our usual editorial remit here at IQ Trainwrecks.com, we are pleased to host the second edition of the “Blog Carnival of Data Quality” initiated by Vincent McBurney back in November.
Given the volume of posts we had submitted, and the range of relevance to the theme that Vincent had suggested for this […]A Cat-astrophe
December is the month when the “wacky news” stories from around the world get an airing…
I found this one via Yahoo this morning… Cat gets credit card.
An Australian woman decided to test the indentity screening processes that her bank uses for credit card applications. So she applied for a card in the name of her […]Trainwreck or Bus disaster?
From the “This is london” website there is this story about the dangers of relying on satnav and the unexpected outcomes that arise from decisions taken on incomplete or inaccurate information.
Summary… 50 people take a shopping trip from Gloucester to Lille (France). Driver of coach relies on SatNav. He selects “Lille” from the menu. He […]So, they’ve got guns and are trained to kill…
let’s screw with their pay…
From the erstwhile The Register comes this story about on-going information quality problems in the British Forces pay and personnel system. There have been complaints of pay being withheld for months.
The MOD blames the data input monkeys staff and insists that the system is working fine.
“Input errors based on a degree of unfamiliarity with […]Irish Times Blogger says it better than we can… A Trainwreck Compendium
The Irish Times is one of the leading daily newspapers in Ireland. It was also one of the first with a website (www.ireland.com) in the 1990s and has taken the courageous step (in the face of Irish libel laws) of letting selected columnists write blogs as extensions of their regular print columns.
One of my personal favourites […]I shot the Sheriff (but I didn’t update the warrants database)
The headline doesn’t scan as well as the original Bob Marley lyric, but that jarring dischord is nothing compared to the problems with the PNC (Police National Computer) in the UK.
A review is underway of the processes used to update the PNC database across the UK covering the “national process and practice for withdrawing warrants, […]Another error from a wunch of bankers…
The Register has this interesting story… a man in Georgia USA received a letter from his bank shortly after he closed his account with them. He believed he had cleared any outstanding charges so was a little bit surprised when he received a letter from the bank insisting he owed them $211 trillion dollars. This […]
