Actually, Iceland has excelled itself this time. Last time, it managed to get just my bank account closed.
;-) Brian P -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: 15 April 2010 16:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FTP to z/OS Problem John All corrections of any sort gratefully accepted. It's one day early but I'll take the opportunity anyhow: Most of you reading this are unaffected but the big news story in Western Europe right now originates from Iceland. Today is the deadline for letters to the Sunday Times for next Sunday so we'll see if this one makes it onto their Letters page: <quote> The Wrong Sort of Planet They wouldn't listen to me; I did tell them; one good volcanic eruption and they're useless; they'll rue the day they decided on these newfangled jets and abandoned propellers! </quote> Non-UK readers need to know that the excuse used by the UK rail infrastructure company for difficulties keeping trains on time one recent autumn - appropriately also known as "fall" - was headlined as "The wrong sort of leaves". This last winter a similar excuse for transport disruption borrowed the headline as "The wrong sort of snow". And in case, you haven't seen the news, the air space of a large part of Western Europe has been closed since it turns out that the particles being put out by the volcano - situated so conveniently in the middle of the busiest air corridor on the planet, given their genesis, are particularly harmful to jet engines. Having sent the letter, I was amused to see that an aeroplane providing pictures of the eruption was - you guessed it - propeller-driven! Chris Mason ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
