British Airways are taking steps to move the queues from the conventional check-in desks on UK domestic flights to queues at the self-service kiosks and even lengthier queues at the ‘Fast Bag Drop’ desk which will be renamed ‘Bag Drop’ to comply with the Trades Description Act. This is good news and it will be interesting to see the effects but please take care when printing your board pass.

…is the sincerest form of flattery. I note Tom Kyte is shamelessly copying my exciting and innovative photoblog idea but appears to using a slightly more expensive camera. Pity I was not able to attend Tom’s 2 day seminar in London. That would have been very interesting. Maybe next time.

Yesterday I was eating lunch in an office in Copenhagen. Bizarrely, one of the project team I was working with, was attending a training course in the UK and was simultaneously sitting down to eat at my normal place of work at TVP in Reading.

I was worried that Google’s integrated suite of Web 2.0 office applications would pose a threat to Zoho but another, more immediate competitor has just launched this week. ThinkFree provides a similar service to Zoho offering free, Web-based Word, Excel and PowerPoint software. I found ThinkFree’s charts matches the features in Excel (and is better than ZohoSheet and NumSum). In fact, ThinkFree’s compatibility with Microsoft Office is so awesome, at times, it is easy to forget you are not actually using Word/Excel/Powerpoint. I am surprised the use of the small toolbar icons does not constitute not a breach of copyright. ...

The city of Copenhagen (near Denmark) has a lot to commend it. Unfortunately, the view from my hotel window is not one of them. Probably the worst view in the world.