It was a rough week for the UK, with record floods and terrorist attacks in the middle of a change of government.
As the Y-Ranter points out, the bureaucracy dealt with it in stride
Y'know, they really did. The airports were opened and working smoothly despite the increase in security level, and I figure he knows how things are going down in the floods up Yorkshire way.
Interesting.
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The Chaos Computer Club, in an inspired hack to draw attention to some of the idiocies of biometric IDs, lifted the fingerprint of the German Interior Minister
"In the beginning...
...was the command line!"
Now, there is Goosh!
The unofficial google shell.
All the power of google with the cuddly familiarity of the csh interface.
Sweet.
25 years ago I flew to the UK, after having been completely out of touch with all media for a week, and found the country was at war.
Undecidable financial contracts, crowdsourcing nepotism and explaining the Nobel Prize.
We got it all...
Well, we all know that us Brits can do weather, even the odd tornado and "hurricane". And decades of experience dealing with the IRA and other Northern Ireland terrorist groups do tend to lend a better perspective than perhaps Americans are used to.