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Dear UK Government,
So far this I year have:

Taken photographs of government buildings
Hired a car using out-of-date identification
Made 44 time zone changes
Bought a pay-as-you-go SIM card anonymously
Visited any number of suspicious websites

Do I get a reward if I report myself?

After my difficulties last week with Californian hotels, today I had similar problems confirming a booking reference by telephone in Estonia. Again, there was considerable confusion as every time I said ‘N’, they heard ‘M’. Then, when I got them to understand ‘N’, they thought I was offering that as the next character. We tried [...]

Last week I was in California for the second time in a month. This caused a raised eyebrow from the immigration officials, and I also got to join the “special screening” line at security (I think it was a mix of having only hand luggage, and not having any part of my journey involve the [...]

If anyone is visiting Glasgow at any time soon, I would strongly recommend a visit to Sharmanka. Their website is very 1997, and doesn’t really do them justice, but this is a truly amazing collection of pieces created from old sewing machines, bicycles, and other scrap, with hundreds of little carved figures pulling and pushing [...]

Danny Ayers points to an online Mensa test where you have to expand all the phrases (”24 H in a D” = “24 Hours in a Day”, etc).
They claim that scoring 19+ (out of 33) is “genius” level. So I felt pretty good about getting 29 correct in 10 minutes. But then I noticed that [...]

Playing with del.icio.us yesterday, I came across the popular post “Six Ways on Getting More Done each day”. I certainly hope its popularity isn’t a sign that people are going to follow its ideals.
1. Focus high importance tasks first
“If you are choosing to watch TV over completing your project that is due tomorrow, you are [...]

It’s certainly been an eventful 6 months since I last posted.
Back in May we took over Ireland’s oldest ISP and have spent the last 6 months turning it around. They seemed to have an interesting business model whereby they would take all the revenue, give 50% of it to suppliers, 50% of it staff, and [...]

As Everyone else locally is posting their “playlist on random” lists:

October Swimmer - JJ72
The Subordinate - Lisa Gerrard
Radiate - Fleming and John
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkings
Both Hands - Ani DiFranco
Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Wedding Present
Back on the Farm - Baader Meinhof
Haw - 16 Horsepower
Happy Hour - The Housemartins
Heart - Pet Shop Boys
Perfect 10 - [...]

hfb writes about the driving in Boston. I only had a car when I was in California, so I didn’t encounter the drivers in Boston. I did however encounter the parking. In South Boston everyone double parks. I even saw the occassional triple-parking. But one night a brave cop decided to start ticketing cars that [...]

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