A little bit of fun and games today thanks to the British Gas web site. I wanted to change my log-in details as a usual security update so I logged in and accessed my account. I chose a new password and submitted it and an error was thrown up: basically the chosen password was too short.

So I went back in again and tried once more with a much longer password. This time, it failed again as the password has to include at least one number.

So I tried again.

Now wouldn’t it be good if they could have told me that the password had to be between x and y characters long and include at least one number and one letter in the same error message? Sloppy coding, boys…