When flying out to Germany (pre-kneesplosion), ChrisC and I checked ourselves in using one of the automatic touch-screen check-in machines rather than dealing with a human. You scan your passport, and push buttons to indicate how many bags you have.

( She stares at the screen and the little words of green )

Public Service Announcement, in case anyone else has been suffering vague confusion when reading film reviews of late:

The Arthur Kipps who features in The Woman In Black bears absolutely no relation to the Arthur Kipps who features in the HG Wells novel (subsequently adapated as Half a SixpenceI did wonder how I'd managed to watch a stage ( Read more... )

A brief request: does anyone have any recommendations for an Android twitter app? Must be able to handle multiple accounts.

Beyond that, I've never used twitter other than on t'web or via sms, so don't really know what I want.

A couple of times recently I've mentioned http://www.theyworkforyou.com, and been surprised at the number of people who don't know about it. It's dead simple: type your postcode in, and get a random bunch of information (eg voting record on big issues, attendance record, links to speeches ( Read more... )

I'm not very good at reading LJ these days. Flicking through my friends list last night, I happened to notice someone's announcement of engagement. Following a link there, I accidentally discovered that someone else has got married and acquired kids without me noticing ( Read more... )

My apologies for the cryptic (or at least vague) nature of this post. I firmly believe that Christmas presents should be surprises and, while I don't really think the intended recipient of the present is all that likely to read this, I'm not taking any chances.

( Text-based trivia as present finder )