Morning of stuff....

People have been complaining about the voice quality on my iPhone for a while, so I ended up spending an hour at the Apple Store recently.  Basically, they think the noise cancellation microphone is probably overwriting the entire voice channel...  so they replaced the hardware, and I'm now getting the thing rebuilt, which is a pain.

In other news, I've got a lot of travel coming up.  LA next Monday, SF, Thursday/Friday, then we're taking a few days the following week to go to M's niece's graduation in St Louis.

Anyway, back to the iPhone. 

One for the Brits to laugh at...

Over on Rand Simberg's Blog, he has a lovely piece called "Screw the Earth"...

There are some classics there, but for the Brits in the audience here are the ones that made me chuckle:

From the post he links to:  "You no longer worry about pollution, because you know that once free people become annoyed by it, other free people will fix it with cleaner fuel-burning methods and filters. Where are the pea soups of London?"

When Chris Gerrib, rightly, points out that the Clean Air Act of 1953 was hardly the market working, we get this:

"The “government action” was the result of British citizens exercising their rights at the ballot box." 

I thought people could do with a good laugh.