At the risk of turning this into a meme...

Courtesy of the community-spirited nattydreadi:

The Spice Girls have announced that they will play one date on their upcoming farewell tour in a city chosen by their fans. To assist them in this please click on the link below, select Your Spice City and add your vote for Baghdad.

http://www.thespicegirls.com/en/index.html

Vote early, vote often.

At the risk of turning this into a meme...

Courtesy of the community-spirited nattydreadi:

The Spice Girls have announced that they will play one date on their upcoming farewell tour in a city chosen by their fans. To assist them in this please click on the link below, select Your Spice City and add your vote for Baghdad.

http://www.thespicegirls.com/en/index.html

Vote early, vote often.

"Happy to be of service"

I have identified a technological oddity concerning the building I work in. We have what appear to be the only lifts in Christendom that are equipped with stealth technology.

I work on the 14th floor and because the building is occupied by a number of different organisations, each with their own security concerns, the stairs are out of bounds except during an emergency or a fire drill. It is important therefore that the lifts work properly.

I have noticed recently that the tones that announce their arrival on the floor have become more muted. If you are talking to someone it is easy to miss them. In fact it is easy to miss them when you are on your own unless you happen to be looking directly at the lift doors as they open. The internal lighting is subdued and the internal walls the same colour as the doors, so at a quick glance down the line, it is often only the actual movement of the door opening or closing that tells you which lift is present. Ironically, as the doors close, there is an electronic voice that tells you it is the 14th floor and the lift is going down. That recording is very audible indeed, so you know precisely which lift it is that is just too far away for you to get to and jam a leg into the closing doors to stop it leaving.

The cunning part is that as you get there another lift at the far end of the lobby will have arrived and will proceed to announce its departure in the same fashion. You can’t double bluff these lifts either, they are both stealthy and cunning.

Programmed for your inconvenience by the Karma Pixies^TM.

"Happy to be of service"

I have identified a technological oddity concerning the building I work in. We have what appear to be the only lifts in Christendom that are equipped with stealth technology.

I work on the 14th floor and because the building is occupied by a number of different organisations, each with their own security concerns, the stairs are out of bounds except during an emergency or a fire drill. It is important therefore that the lifts work properly.

I have noticed recently that the tones that announce their arrival on the floor have become more muted. If you are talking to someone it is easy to miss them. In fact it is easy to miss them when you are on your own unless you happen to be looking directly at the lift doors as they open. The internal lighting is subdued and the internal walls the same colour as the doors, so at a quick glance down the line, it is often only the actual movement of the door opening or closing that tells you which lift is present. Ironically, as the doors close, there is an electronic voice that tells you it is the 14th floor and the lift is going down. That recording is very audible indeed, so you know precisely which lift it is that is just too far away for you to get to and jam a leg into the closing doors to stop it leaving.

The cunning part is that as you get there another lift at the far end of the lobby will have arrived and will proceed to announce its departure in the same fashion. You can’t double bluff these lifts either, they are both stealthy and cunning.

Programmed for your inconvenience by the Karma Pixies^TM.