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Comment on Border Chaos by John

John — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:48:10 +0000

Apparently they are anticipating 4 hour queues at the tunnel forcing Eurotunnel to cut services in order to cope with our glorious border guards inability deal with passenger numbers. It’s an absolute disgrace and the denial of travel must be a breach of our rights to freedom of movement, Last year before it became topical (the tunnel has always been chaos) I complained to one of the goons at passport control who had the audacity to blame the problem on Eurotunnel and its passengers for making so busy. I suppose the government doesn’t care what people think – but then of course 90% of the tunnel traffic is us poor old brits trying to escape yet it is the same public whose opinion (whipped up by the likes of the Mail and Murdoch’s papers) who seem to think our strict border control is such a good thing however ineffective or inconvenient it is. It’s about time those idiots in Whitehall either got their act together or reconsider joining Schengen – who clearly are 1000% more efficient at policing borders. This would also slash the queues at a stroke.
It’s not worth complaining to UKBA – they are so arrogant about this issues it would be water off a ducks back – they don’t give a sh***. Again maybe we should look to the French for inspiration and think about a riot rather than to feebly complain

Comment on Border Chaos by Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:09:07 +0000

Not done it for ages. Came through ORD without any trouble yesterday, though.

Comment on Ubuntu for Android by Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:29:59 +0000

Yes, that works apparently. There’s an extension to Ubuntu that adds the phone to its audio system, or you can undock the phone.

Comment on Ubuntu for Android by Carlo Broglia

Carlo Broglia — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:28:31 +0000

Very interesting.
Do you know whether it’s possible to receive a call, or be notified that there’s a call, on the cell phone while it’s docked?

Comment on Open Source Enables Innovation by Open Source Enables Innovation « Wild Webmink | Open Hacking

Open Source Enables Innovation « Wild Webmink | Open Hacking — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:49:10 +0000

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Comment on Border Chaos by Mark Cathcart

Mark Cathcart — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:33:47 +0000

Simon, hows your experience been coming in through DFW lately? Not so much is mine. I’m usually first line to whine about the “old” country but not this time. I’ve arrived at DFW twice in the last 8-weeks, both times I’ve been in business class, so notionally one of the first off, walk as fast as I can to the immigration hall and join the line for non-citizens. The first time it cost me way over an hour, and I missed my connecting flight as even though I was confirmed in first and arrived in international business, and lieftime Platinum, the gate agent still prioritized a standby passenger… the second time 10-days ago was worse. Only 2x Border control agents for non-citizens, waited for ever, at which people people in the line behind me were pushed over to the now empty citizens lines.

Oh and you can’t use cellphones in the immigration hall, they are very forceful about that…

So its another shared experience between the US and the UK…

Comment on Making Hybrid PDFs by Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:24:40 +0000

On the contrary, if you can demonstrate it in two minutes it’s dead easy!

Comment on Making Hybrid PDFs by Marty

Marty — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:35:21 +0000

If it needs a video to explain it, it’s not “easy”.

Comment on Open Source Enables Innovation by Marty

Marty — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:11:54 +0000

It may never have happened, but now that it has, the world is greeting it with a resounding “so what?” Making one OS run on another platform is hardly innovation, it’s been happening since the dawn of OS time.

Comment on Community Types by Cade Smedley

Cade Smedley — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:52:37 +0000

I really enjoy the blog.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.