mdcurran

The US also incurs a toll of $40 for visitors using ESTA.

'Go put your shoes on' is sensical in British English. If I heard someone saying this, I wouldn't bat an eye.

I feel embarrassed! Despite being from Glasgow, until now I've never made the connection between the River Kelvin (and the surrounding Kelvingrove and Kelvinbridge), the statue in the park of someone called Baron Kelvin, and the unit of measurement.

This doesn’t totally solve the issue of SELECT’ing first then filtering, but for complex queries I’ve found CTEs very useful (whenever the database/SQL dialect supports it).

The Times could perhaps be leaning “right”. But the FT is, in my opinion, a legitimately neutral publication. At least through Britain’s default neoliberal lens.

I visit the British Library often. It's a great place to work if no meetings are on your schedule that day. The library has been noticeably quieter the past few weeks. Perhaps it's the time of year, but many individuals use the library for researching family histories or accessing esoteric items in the catalogue. I hope this is resolved soon. Public libraries are a really wonderful utility.

I used the 2nd edition of this textbook in my undergraduate studies extensively (linguistics). Coming from a non-technical background and starting to take technical classes, certain chapters were wonderful ways for me to bridge that gap. Specifically the second chapter on text normalisation helped me apply things I’d learned in 100 and 200 level classes and ultimately set me on the path to becoming an engineer. And I still use that text processing knowledge a lot in my day to day work.

I’m forever grateful to the authors for making these drafts freely accessible (there weren’t many copies of the second edition in my university library!)

I think there's a much deeper problem at Scottish Power than just IT systems. I spent close to a year trying to get them to fix an incorrect bill and nobody I talked to had any idea what to do (probably 6 or 7 people across various departments).

I know many others who have had similar problems with Scottish Power, and I'm sure there will be more testimonies in other comments.

The question on my mind is how does a company resolve such deep-rooted institutional failings?