[Techman]

I filled out a form at my doctors several months ago to enable me to have access to certain medical information on-line. The form had to be signed by the actual doctor and it looks like they've just lost it. I'm probably going to ask them if they can assure me that it hasn't just been picked up by the cleaner or anyone else just passing through. There wasn't anything particularly personal on the form as far as I can remember, but still! I think there's far too much carelessness with confidential paperwork in these places, certainly there was at the place I used to work at until there was a severe tightening up and it all had to be collected by a specialist company for destruction.

I was given one of the old fax machines when they were all dumped at work a few years ago. The last time I used it at home was around 2001. It had the 'millennium bug' and the internal clock wouldn't go beyond the end of 1999, although that didn't stop it working as such. I'll have to drag it out of cold storage and see if it still works.