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Strange Meter Readings (30 min AMR)

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With no booking for room hire and thus no income, I have been trying to reduce electricity consumption in our village hall. I cannot just simply switch off at the isolator, since there is another user who has access for an office.

This morning 09:41 looked at the consumption graph for Thursday 2nd April and was pleased that I had apparently reduced it by more than half from the previous days.  Then looked again this evening and I hadn't!  I thought I had seen similar yesterday, so this time copied the screen to a file:


The two images are at:  
http://ancient-mariner.co.uk/public/ScreenShot3832A.bmp  This morning's view of Thursday 2nd April and
http://ancient-mariner.co.uk/public/ScreenShot3836A.bmp  This evening's view of Thursday 2nd April


Confusing, to say the least!

Clive



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    Indeed.  Anyone can make a mistake, but a monumentally silly  mistake really needs a computer.


    I know someone who programs for a living, and has done for many years, who after a few drinks once admitted to being involved in one that cost a contract for a large bank.


    To test the auto-mailing  correctly send different special offers to customers with different bank balances, the test involved using a set of fake customers, and checking that the right letters were sent based on balance, credit history whatever. The idea being something like  offering loans and overdrafts to one group and high interest saving options to the other.


    This testing including one fake customer called Mr Rich_Bar_Steward, or something in that jokey programmer style.  So far so good, but this was back when mail merge was new, and things were not as structured as they are today, and something was not parsed correctly, somehow several letters were printed that said things like.

    Dear Mr Smith,

    Rich_Bar_Steward,

    Would you be interested in broadening your investment  portfolio with our ...




    I understand it was spotted  quite quickly, but even so did not end well in terms of further business.


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    Indeed.  Anyone can make a mistake, but a monumentally silly  mistake really needs a computer.


    I know someone who programs for a living, and has done for many years, who after a few drinks once admitted to being involved in one that cost a contract for a large bank.


    To test the auto-mailing  correctly send different special offers to customers with different bank balances, the test involved using a set of fake customers, and checking that the right letters were sent based on balance, credit history whatever. The idea being something like  offering loans and overdrafts to one group and high interest saving options to the other.


    This testing including one fake customer called Mr Rich_Bar_Steward, or something in that jokey programmer style.  So far so good, but this was back when mail merge was new, and things were not as structured as they are today, and something was not parsed correctly, somehow several letters were printed that said things like.

    Dear Mr Smith,

    Rich_Bar_Steward,

    Would you be interested in broadening your investment  portfolio with our ...




    I understand it was spotted  quite quickly, but even so did not end well in terms of further business.


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