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Heathrow, sucks and then III
My favourite peeve is a rant about Heathrow, London’s premier airport with those long line-ups, confusing pedways and oh-so helpful security guards (earlier on xsamplex). And irritating survey people who question you why you didn’t buy that backpack even after … Continue reading
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Heathrow, sucks and then II
Talking about Heathrow (previously), I just read this October 4th Boing-Boing entry about that very same airport. Hey, lets share that pain when flying via Heathrow! The lines are like something out of the ninth pit of hell, especially in … Continue reading
Heathrow, sucks and then
You know that you went too far giving instructions about ‘Heathrow’, ‘flying by plane’ or ‘entering no-mans-land called Customs’, when you become aware that the instructee is a actually a regular flyer too. OK. Then. No worries. Safe flight. That … Continue reading
You asked: heathrow+how+much+time+needed…
Actually the complete search query was ‘heathrow +how+ much +time+ needed+to+go+ through+customs+and +retrieve+luggage +for+connecting+flight’. For that, the searchee ended up somewhere at January’s entries on my travels to Europe. (Note this only applies to travellers who booked connecting flights on … Continue reading
You asked: Toshiba laptop Vista upgrade
From the logfiles, the inevitable question about the (supposed to be free) Vista upgrade. That is if you bought your laptop before October 2006: Canadian Toshiba users (and there are apparently a lot of them1) interested in a ‘free’ Express … Continue reading
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Assorted thoughts (II)
More random picks from the grey matter cabinet (earlier picks): Great Britain is culturally more diverse than The Netherlands. However, for some kind of reason, all British people love going to The Netherlands, or rather, Amsterdam. Much to my surprise, … Continue reading
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Assorted thoughts
Some (not so related) thoughts from the last couple of days: There are a lot of people around with Toshiba laptops, particularly ones coming from North America. On my flight back home, I saw at least one lady use the … Continue reading
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Tom-ti-tom
That’s the sound of jet-lag. I arrived back home a couple of days ago after spending the traditional hours of running up and down stairs at Heathrow airport. There were many security checks, of course, but spending too many minutes … Continue reading
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