BevDog - no can do. These are 4 connected cubes and we have no say in how they are placed.

Well, poop. I sympathize. No seriously, I just shuddered thinking about it.

I'm a turtle kind of person anyway. Our office moved from cramped little quarters where my desk was anchored by two walls and a support column to a wide open empty lobby where my desk was marooned in a sea of carpet. Felt like a bug on a plate, seal on an ice floe. In two days I was barricaded behind a desk return on one side, a four-foot bookcase and a two-drawer filing cabinet and visitor's chair on the other. My fortress. I couldn't hide, but invaders had to come across furniture to get me, and I faced the door.

I was laughed at by friends who lunched, usually last to arrive and refused to sit in the last chair left--back to the door or the open room. Mocked, until I pointed out that none of them had chosen to sit there, either.

I would seriously be working from the other side of the desk. It's probably a good thing I'm no longer compelled to be in an office environment.

New speed cameras trap motorists from space

A new type of speed cameras which can use satellites to measure average speed over long distances are being tested in Britain.

The cameras, which combine number plate reading technology with a global positioning satellite receiver, are similar to those used in roadworks.

The AA said it believed the new system could cover a network of streets as opposed to a straight line, and was “probably geared up to zones in residential areas.”

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Details of the trials are contained in a House of Commons report. The company said in its evidence that the cameras enabled "number plate capture in all weather conditions, 24 hours a day". It also referred to the system's "low cost" and ease of installation.

Stephanie, it's usually very state to state dependant, the laws in that sort of case. Some allow it, some don't, some make it very easy, some don't.

I'm not surprised by that. I guess I asked about GC's case in particular because I thought I remembered her saying that DW would have to adopt Shane in order to be his legal parent.

I have a case right now with a US citizen non-biological mother whose name in on her children's birth certificates, but because her kids weren't born in the US, she's having trouble getting them here. I was hoping to find some sort of resource that would educate me on the varying state requirements to be legally recognized as a parent, even if you are the non-bio parent.

yep. This is all wide open space, low-wall cubes in clusters, no side walls to partition the cubes off from walkways. And the offices are like fishbowls too, all glass fronts, even glass panels on part of the wall between offices. I want to put up a screen around me.

Dalek propaganda poster

Wow- I am glad the fact that the building I work in used to be a dorm means that everyone (pretty much) has their own office, or at least only shares with one other person. My boss and I aren't even right next to each other-- she is across the hall and down a few doors.

A new type of speed cameras which can use satellites to measure average speed over long distances are being tested in Britain.

I find the whole British camera thing kinda creepy.

I've never had my own office with walls in the 22 years I've been working, just cubicles and open desks (at the libraries).

I can not overstate how happy I am that I have my own office again (after 10 years in cubes). I keep worrying that they'll take it away from me!