And on this side of the pond...
The Golden Gate Bridge, of course:
http://goldengatebridge.org/
Though the 'GGB Suicide Barrier Study' link on the front page is a little disturbing..
Dead vulture - did 'e jump, or was 'e pushed?
Posts by J-Wick
212 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jan 2008
Forth Road Bridge hack redirects to smut bazaar
BBC excludes Grange Hill after 30 years of misbehaviour
How to lose $7.2bn with just a few Basic skills
Thursday 31st January 2008 14:31 GMT 
@John - you answer your own question..
John, banks run 'multi-billion dollar businesses on Excel spreadshets', precisely because the geeks are *not* allowed to throw their toys around. IT would love to move everyone off cobbled-together spreadsheets and onto a enterprise-level trading & risk system, but never get the budget or resources.
Until it's too late of course...
Paris just because...
Just how cute are cats? W3C can help
Critics split over DDoS attacks on Scientology
Apple applies to light up laptop touchpads, iPod clickwheels
Japanese to launch paper plane from ISS
Sprint axes 4,000 jobs, closes 125 stores
Monday 21st January 2008 15:03 GMT 
Yeah, they suck....
Sprint customer. Have a family plan & data add-on, so that the forfeit fee to cancel isn't much more than my monthly bill anyway. Service actually isn't too bad - *customer* service is horrible though?
Question - who is better though? Any way to avoid jumping out of the frying pan & into the fire?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
