Category Archives: USA

Tapes from ATC

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“The sheer bafflement of America’s air traffic control network during the two hours when America was under attack on 11 September 2001 was put on vivid display yesterday with the release of complete audio-tape recordings of increasingly frantic communications as the crisis accelerated.”

“the tapes have never been available in their entirety before.”

Tapes reveal terror in air traffic control as 9/11 attacks unfolded – Americas, World – The Independent.

How coincidental that the US Govt released these in the last few days. A cynic would say they did this for their own reasons… next they’ll be saying there is a a new threat and they’ll have to put even more restrictions on people. For their own safety of course. Oh .. look .. they did already …

Jet lag

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Flew through 11 timezones to get to Hawaii for the Akismet team meetup. Obviously flew back through the same 11 timezones. And here I am a week later still feeling like crap. Constant headache, constant tiredness, sleep is frequent and poor, feel sick, cannot concentrate. I have rehydrated after the flight and still drink plenty (of water), eating is as it was. But nothing works so far. According to wikipedia it can take a day per timezone to feel better so I’ve 4 days at least to go. I didn’t feel this bad after going to Japan but I did feel ill after the last San Francisco trip. One thing for sure – I will never go Hawaii again.

SarahPac. No truth yet.

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NYC

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NY …
It’s busy, Times Square is not a square, The Empire State Bldg was good, the Statue of Libery looked very very small (and no, it was not because it was a distance away). I have eaten more cheesecake than in any other 4 day period, pastrami sandwiches are excellent, some people did not understand me, lots of people appeared to have no manners. Central Park is bigger than I imagined. This is not the place to learn to drive. There were not as many Starbucks as I thought and in those that I did go in few staff were as good as those in England. The Park Central Hotel is good, their internet access is slow – too many people. I found no free wifi. Took somewhere close to 350 pictures. My daughter has loved it which is good because the trip was for her. Instead of “You’ve never taken me to America” she promises to be more specific – “You’ve never taken me to California”. I’d like a way of knowing for a fact I am connecting through SSH rather than going to whatismyip.com after connecting to the domain. I want to take photos of the airport but I do not want to be asked about it. The glass Apple store looks a lot less impressive in the day. The Empire State DVD they sell is nothing like the audio tour you can get – which is a shame. Managed to get The Executioner’s Song on DVD which was good but being unable to play it on a Mac back home because of Apple’s craven fawning to the film studios is bad. The city appears to be disability hostile for the sidewalks which could explain the laws around cabs and access. Noise noise noise. Would I come back? Yep – with J. She is looking at a deal in May for us both. She really wants to look out from the top of the Empire State. Is there anything I think I should have done, or that I missed? No, it’s been fun.