Help!

I got hauled out to look after small boy for an hour or so, to allow the daughter to go out shopping. He’s coming on, as well. Though he really needs to stop throwing duplo at me. I’m not amused by that, and I left him in no doubt of my feelings with a stern expression and loud exclamation of NO!! Strangely he seemed to consider this as some sort of encouragement.
Much later, having read how the Post Office scandal was back in the news, we dipped our toes into Mr Bates vs the Post Office. Gawd, soap and syrup. The village where one Sub-Postmistress lived was like Trumpton. Better just to read about it - though even the Computer Weekly articles on it just talk about “bugs” in the system. Sounds pretty ropey to be able to input all your figures and for the system to then produce output figures out by thousands of pounds. But apparently that was simply what the system did….

"Mr de Garr Robinson directs Mr Coyne to Angela van den Bogerd’s witness statement which notes this is a design quirk of Horizon. If a bunch of products sit in a basket for long enough on the screen Horizon will turn them into a sale automatically.
‘So this isn’t evidence of Horizon going wrong, is it?’ asks Mr de Garr Robinson. ‘It is an example of Horizon doing what it was supposed to do.’
‘It is evidence of the system doing something without the user choosing to do it.’ retorts Mr Coyne.
But that is not the point. It is not a bug in the system.”

For you fellow IT freaks out there, this guy is all over it.