Long Way Home

So BA are clearly in the departure lounge at T4 (excuse the pun) - the Business Lounges have never looked so run down.  Having said that, why bother with the Spa renovation unless whoever takes over the lounge space is going to use it?  Better to have done something with the lounge area proper.

Get to flight on time, board flight on time, get announcement of a "short" delay for some connecting passengers.  I've been in their shoes so I'm sanguine.  Group of Ugandan kids arrive, alls well, they board quickly.  We close the door, at which point one of the Ugandans is dumped vomiting in the seat next to me in Premium Economy.  I move out of the way and let the crew get on with it.  Time passes, his English isn't good, his friends aren't helping, paramedics are called.  He has a fever, vomiting and pain in his hands.  Eventually the paramedics arrive and suggest a visit to the hospital of his choice.  So, now we have a debate about who gets off with the 17 year old, followed by the "where the fecking hell is his luggage" discussion.  Upshot, we leave 3 hours later than planned.

This is where I do get annoyed with some Cabin Service Directors.  I put myself out, I get out of their way, as people fill up my row.  I stand for a couple of hours while he basically throws up all over the area I'm going to be spending the next 9 hours in, I don't complain.  Does she even say hello, or check I'm ok later?  No, does she bugger.

The crew were great, but you're the fecking manager of the situation and I'm a fecking premium passenger who uses your bloody airline all the bloody time and you don't have the common curtesy to check if I'm ok?  It's almost enough to say FUCK YOU to entire airline.  Except, at the end of the day, the crew were great.  But frankly, Bloody Awful, you need to start treating your premium card holders a shit load better than you do now.

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*sigh*

TidBITS Networking: Gauging Openness with iPhone as Measure

For the record, when I get rude and obnoxious about Apple people, it's because of articles like this.

I would start to talk about all the errors in this, but it would depress me too much.

If I wanted to, I could go up to Fremont this afternoon and take a screen shot of my "open" Windows Mobile phone doing exactly the same thing with roughly the same degree of precision.  It's not new, it's not hard and it has nothing to do with the iPhone - which is not, currently, open under any common use of that phrase.

Blackberry and S60 devices can do it to and you can write applications for them.

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Upsetting the Cannon

Comments on ‘Star Trek XI teaser trailer beams onto web’ | Reg Hardware

Assuming this isn't another fake, it's likely to have the Fan Boy contingent running for implements to strike JJ Abrams with.

It appears to show the USS Enterprise NCC1701 under construction at the start of his upcoming Star Trek Prequel.

As many know, the Enterprise was already well used when Kirk took over as her 3rd skipper from new.  Unless, that is, we're throwing the Cannon out with the bath water.

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