There's Solitare that you play on a windows computer (known here as patience)... and there's Solitare with little pegs in holes that you have to jump over each other.

Just curious what the peggy-type game is called elsewhere

What do Americans call the game we Brits know as Solitare?

Cefeida-

Yes they need to know where you've 'touched in' and 'touched out' in order to work out how much money to deduct from the card... if any.

I'd assume they're also really good in terms of planning for the future, Transport For London could use statistics from the data to determine travelling trends and then put on more buses and adjust timetables as necessary.

As Jonathan V says, there are many other advantgaes in terms of maintenance, wear and tear etc... also it takes cash out of the buses and tube stations which is always a good thing

#15 - according to the BBc local news today the area is covered by CCTV (it's a Royal Mail sorting office) but the cameras didn't capture the painting of it. They reported it was a 'Banksy'

#7 - The phone line isn't compulsary, I didn't have one with virgin for ages until I realised that it worked out far cheaper to get one from them than not

Personally I've not had much problem with Blueyonder/Virgin

I'll wait and see what happens... a vague threat in an interview by someone a few days into the job shouldn't be taken that seriously at this stage.

Surely this is no diffrent to the 'Keyword' system that US TV has been using for years.... i.e. 'AOL keyword ABC' rather than just saying 'abc.com'?

The searching for URL thing really annoys me, a colleague of mine types every url direct into Google. Whenever I've seen a site showing what peopel are searching for there's always loads of urls appearing... madness

The UK socket is presumably upside down because the cable comes out the bottom of the plug (beneath the 2 horizontal holes)

If it was installed on that desk the correct way round the desk surface would get in the way of the cable!