Use IE on the sites I develop, but that usage is only hitting the internal dev server, and won't appear in any site stats. I certainly don't use IE for going anywhere else, unless the site breaks in Firefox, and even then I use IETab.
When I was on holiday recently, I did check my work email once from my wife's friends' place and was delighted to see that there'd been another Deployment From Hell. The therapeutic part was that I wasn't involved in it this time.
Last time we flew, back in May, we flew UK-US with BA, then took a side-trip to the Bahamas with Delta. When we checked in for the Bahamas flight, the check-in agent wanted to take my green visa waiver form from my passport. I explained that I'd asked the US immigration agent when we'd arrived and he'd said I could keep it on the trip to the Bahamas and use it for re-entry to the US. The check-in agent wasn't happy, but let me keep it. However, my boarding pass bore the dreaded SSSS marker and I duly got the full wanding, bag search etc. My wife did't get selected.
Funnily enough, on checking in at Nassau, my pass had the SSSS stamp too, but no-one batted an eyelid at it, and I didn't get any security checking different from that which my wife or anyone else around got.
The UK's second largest electricity distribution company, PowerGen, has just announced that it's closing its Indian call-centres and bring the jobs back to the UK due to poor customer service issues.
Yeah, I've always been surprised at how intrusive the US immigration authorities are to their own citizens, even stamping their passports for entry (my wife is American).
In the UK, once the immigration officer has established from inspecting your passport that you are a) who you say you are, b) are an EU citizen and c) there is no positive reason not to admit you (i.e. on a list of those excluded from entry) then under the immigration rules they are not allowed to ask you any further questions or delay your entry any further.
Bahamas too. Had the nicest, most pleasant US immigration officer I've ever met when going back to New York from Nassau recently. Clearly being stationed in a sub-tropical island paradise improves their mood!
If you have a visa or not is of absolutely no concern to the airline or the country of departure whatsoever.
Bzzt wrong! Most rich countries fine transport carriers heavily for anyone they transport to their borders without valid documentation. The UK for instance fines airlines GBP2,000 a time. Last time I flew to the US (a few weeks back) when the BA check-in agent had inspected my passport she stamped my boarding pass with a "Documents OK" stamp and initialled it.
one hour waits in the passport queue with two agents, while USA citizens get four agents which spend most of the time waiting
Whatever else you might say about US immigration, I've never yet had an experience where if the "US citizen" line agents run out of work the agent superivising the line hasn't sent people from the non-US line to those agents.
Yes but some would argue that we in the UK drink rather more on average than could be called reasonable. My wife is American and she's amazed that her work colleagues will often go out drinking together of an evening and then roll in late and hung-over the next morning - this would not be acceptable in the US she says.
The volcano gods are gonna be so angered when they find out Iceland is mooching the heat
Having visited Iceland, I'd be willing to bet that the Icelanders have already talked it over with the volcano gods and cut them in for a share of the profits. This is, after all, a country that builds roads around boulders because the elves live in them.
I understand that the UK negotiators say that the US administration is sympathetic to our case but that they don't think they could get the necessary waivers passed by Congress. Presumably Congress is worried we're going to use these aircraft to reconquer Ireland or something?
1) This is not the "UK Government" at work. Trading Standards is a function of local authorities, a borough, city or county council depending on where in England it took place. Just because one council's TS department is woefully uninformed doesn't mean they all are.
2) Although TS officers do have civil enforcement powers, they are not police. They are local government officers, and having worked in local government I can assure you that they will be on average as IT-literate as the population at large: i.e. not very.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the US govt has had a back-door inserted into Vista. The problem for the UK govt is that clearly the US govt doesn't want to share it with them. And would the uS govt want to allow any other govt to have their own back-doors, with the potential to remotely access PCs running Vista in the US? Somehow I doubt it.
Dunno about that - here in the UK almost all compact fluorescents give similar coloured light to incadescent. The only time we had "cold" compacts was when we bought some ultra-ultra cheap ones at the local market.
I'd certainly strongly recommend compact fluorescent bulbs - we've switched 100% to them and had a noticable reduction in our electricity bill.
London cyclists are bad enough as it is; cycling through red lights, across pedestrian crossings, on the pavement (sidewalk to Transpondians). Now they'll be doing it at 60mph!
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My brother works for M$ so he's offered to get me Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 for free. I said no.
Yeah I know, I could have eBayed them, but it would have felt wrong.
Use IE on the sites I develop, but that usage is only hitting the internal dev server, and won't appear in any site stats. I certainly don't use IE for going anywhere else, unless the site breaks in Firefox, and even then I use IETab.
When I was on holiday recently, I did check my work email once from my wife's friends' place and was delighted to see that there'd been another Deployment From Hell. The therapeutic part was that I wasn't involved in it this time.
Last time we flew, back in May, we flew UK-US with BA, then took a side-trip to the Bahamas with Delta. When we checked in for the Bahamas flight, the check-in agent wanted to take my green visa waiver form from my passport. I explained that I'd asked the US immigration agent when we'd arrived and he'd said I could keep it on the trip to the Bahamas and use it for re-entry to the US. The check-in agent wasn't happy, but let me keep it. However, my boarding pass bore the dreaded SSSS marker and I duly got the full wanding, bag search etc. My wife did't get selected.
Funnily enough, on checking in at Nassau, my pass had the SSSS stamp too, but no-one batted an eyelid at it, and I didn't get any security checking different from that which my wife or anyone else around got.
That it's not just the British government that can't manage an IT project to save its life.
Caucasian != white
...here in London. Not heard any from Parexel lately but they were still advertising for a while after the TGN trial went wrong.
No need to worry about bird flu any more, just the incipient WWIII brewing in the Middle East...
The UK's second largest electricity distribution company, PowerGen, has just announced that it's closing its Indian call-centres and bring the jobs back to the UK due to poor customer service issues.
Yeah, I've always been surprised at how intrusive the US immigration authorities are to their own citizens, even stamping their passports for entry (my wife is American).
In the UK, once the immigration officer has established from inspecting your passport that you are a) who you say you are, b) are an EU citizen and c) there is no positive reason not to admit you (i.e. on a list of those excluded from entry) then under the immigration rules they are not allowed to ask you any further questions or delay your entry any further.
We have nukes too.
Oh wait, we can't fire ours without US permission though.
Well, the Frenchies have nukes, feel free to invade them.
Bahamas too. Had the nicest, most pleasant US immigration officer I've ever met when going back to New York from Nassau recently. Clearly being stationed in a sub-tropical island paradise improves their mood!
If you have a visa or not is of absolutely no concern to the airline or the country of departure whatsoever.
Bzzt wrong! Most rich countries fine transport carriers heavily for anyone they transport to their borders without valid documentation. The UK for instance fines airlines GBP2,000 a time. Last time I flew to the US (a few weeks back) when the BA check-in agent had inspected my passport she stamped my boarding pass with a "Documents OK" stamp and initialled it.
one hour waits in the passport queue with two agents, while USA citizens get four agents which spend most of the time waiting
Whatever else you might say about US immigration, I've never yet had an experience where if the "US citizen" line agents run out of work the agent superivising the line hasn't sent people from the non-US line to those agents.
Yes but some would argue that we in the UK drink rather more on average than could be called reasonable. My wife is American and she's amazed that her work colleagues will often go out drinking together of an evening and then roll in late and hung-over the next morning - this would not be acceptable in the US she says.
The volcano gods are gonna be so angered when they find out Iceland is mooching the heat
Having visited Iceland, I'd be willing to bet that the Icelanders have already talked it over with the volcano gods and cut them in for a share of the profits. This is, after all, a country that builds roads around boulders because the elves live in them.
But the packet switched networking technology which underlies TCP/IP was developed by the British Post Office in the 1960s.
I understand that the UK negotiators say that the US administration is sympathetic to our case but that they don't think they could get the necessary waivers passed by Congress. Presumably Congress is worried we're going to use these aircraft to reconquer Ireland or something?
1) This is not the "UK Government" at work. Trading Standards is a function of local authorities, a borough, city or county council depending on where in England it took place. Just because one council's TS department is woefully uninformed doesn't mean they all are.
2) Although TS officers do have civil enforcement powers, they are not police. They are local government officers, and having worked in local government I can assure you that they will be on average as IT-literate as the population at large: i.e. not very.
That we aren't going to need a bigger boat after all.
Yes. Why is it you can never find a Total Perspective Vortex when you really need one?
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the US govt has had a back-door inserted into Vista. The problem for the UK govt is that clearly the US govt doesn't want to share it with them. And would the uS govt want to allow any other govt to have their own back-doors, with the potential to remotely access PCs running Vista in the US? Somehow I doubt it.
Dunno about that - here in the UK almost all compact fluorescents give similar coloured light to incadescent. The only time we had "cold" compacts was when we bought some ultra-ultra cheap ones at the local market.
I'd certainly strongly recommend compact fluorescent bulbs - we've switched 100% to them and had a noticable reduction in our electricity bill.
I thought I had coined it all by myself this very morning, but a quick Google search shows that I have merely re-invented the work of others...
London cyclists are bad enough as it is; cycling through red lights, across pedestrian crossings, on the pavement (sidewalk to Transpondians). Now they'll be doing it at 60mph!