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Who, Me?  Welcome again to Who, Me? It's the Monday morning column in which readers of The Register admit to making big mistakes and somehow swerving the consequences.…

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A SCHOOL in Braintree has had to shut its doors today as part of an “emergency closure”.

Felix Partridge, 15, and Ginevre Ventre, 15, took the prestigious titles for Best Actor and Best Actress in a musical at the National Theatre Awards.

Patrick Whitesell and his wife Pia have been living it up in Mexico while his ex Lauren Sanchez tied the knot to Jeff Bezos in Italy over the weekend.

Jessica Alba's teenage daughter Honor is all grown up. The 44-year-old actress was joined by her firstborn child, 17-year-old Honor, at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's Venice wedding.

House prices are going up fastest in places where the average property costs less than £2,000, data shows.

After two years of laying down the foundations for his five-year project, Homewards, the future king promises it is now in 'delivery mode'.

Oprah Winfrey and Kris Jenner put on a chummy display as they left Venice, Italy together following Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's wedding celebration.

Holly Willoughby enjoyed the final day of Glastonbury 2025 on Sunday as she rocked a bohemian look at the festival.

I found the same TV being sold for £2,699 by a competitor and so submitted a price promise request within seven days, but it was rejected.

Tech expert and CEO of QR Code Generator Marc Porcar, from Spain, told The Sun that there are multiple signs that could indicate that someone has installed monitoring software on a device.

Ms Leeming (pictured) wrote on X: 'Am I just showing my age being so picky, but surely a national newsreader should be aware of correct pronunciation.'

Labour's welfare cuts were branded 'calamitous' yesterday for targeting the wrong people and failing to tackle root-and-branch reform.

Sebastian, 12, was at home celebrating his brother's First Holy Communion at an address on Manor Grove in Castleford, West Yorkshire, before being found unresponsive.

London-based Sass, 27, took to social media to reveal the romance with her 'silver fox', who is aged 54, though not named on her account.

Furious neighbours of Abdul Rauf in Rochdale say they are terrified to let their children out of sight after the 55-year-old was released having served just two-and-a-half years in prison.

A huge fire ripped through the popular holiday resort, before strong winds fanned the flames and sent it towards neighbourhoods and residential areas.

In ancient times, Rob's employer didn't have its own computer; it rented time on a mid-range computer and ran all its jobs using batch processing in COBOL. And in those ancient times, these stone tools were just fine.

But computing got more and more important, and the costs for renting time kept going up and up, so they eventually bought their own AS/400. And that meant someone needed to migrate all of their COBOL to RPG. And management knew what you do for those kinds of conversions: higher a Highly Paid Consultant.

On one hand, the results weren't great. On the other, the code is still in use, though has been through many updates and modernizations and migrations in that time. Still, the HPC's effects can be felt, like this block, which hasn't been touched since she was last here:

// CHECK FOR VALID FIELD IF FIELD1 <> *BLANKS AND FIELD1 < '1' AND FIELD1 > '5'; BadField1 = *ON; LEAVESR; ENDIF;

This is a validation check on a field (anonymized by Rob), but the key thing I want you to note is that what the field stores are numbers, but it stores those numbers as text- note the quotes. And the greater-than/less-than operators will do lexical comparisons on text, which means '21' < '5' is true.

The goal of this comparison was to require the values to be between 1 and 5. But that's not what it's enforcing. The only good(?) news is that this field also isn't used. There's one screen where users can set the value, but no one has- it's currently blank everywhere- and nothing else in the system references the value. Which raises the question of why it's there at all.

But those kinds of questions are par for the course for the HPC. When they migrated a bunch of reports and the users compared the results with the original versions, the results didn't balance. The HPC's explanation? "The users are changing the data to make me look bad."

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