According to The Register, the ‘Feds arrest 15 aliens at Roswell’. Roswell is of course the site of Area 51 where the Aliens are supposed to have been kept, and where they apparently are always visiting. Unfortunately it is most likely the aliens being refered to are just people not US citizens. At one stage I had an Alien License so I could operate a radio transmitter in the country. Now, I am not from a different planet am I?

Seems like all the carriers are wanting to get cellphones onto planes… RyanAir is the latest. Also on the same site is details of a soldier who decided to get back at a faulty HP printer, with extreme prejudice.

According to the BBC, a Canadian Jet similat to the one that crashed earlier this week in the USA had an Issue. In this case the Pilot was locked out of the cockpit when the door jammed when he went to the toilet. Removing the hinges from the door took some doing but allowed the pilot back into the cockpit. The Copilot did not have any issues flying the plane.

And Thailand is moving to 10 digit Mobile Numbers, requiring everyone to replace their SIM cards (unless you have a Simbian phone in which case the phone can reprogram it). The strange thing is that I was pretty sure that the SIM did not normally contain the phone number. It contained a serial number which also pointed to a Home Location Register which had the phone number. Then again I am not a GSM expert so I am not sure.