I recently had the most astonishingly bad experience with UPS, the courier company. They severely damaged my parcels, and were very bad about UK import VAT, ultimately ending up harassing me on autopilot.
The only thing that got their attention was my draft Particulars of Claim for intended legal action.
Surprisingly, I got them to admit in writing that the “disbursement fee” they charge recipients alongside the actual VAT, is just something they made up with no legal basis. ( Read more... )
This last weekend I completed a bike rides project I started during the first Covid lockdown in 2020:
I’ve cycled to every settlement (and radio observatory) within 20km of my house, in alphabetical order.
( Details )I have started to make private posts, accessible only to my Dreamwidth access list.
If you’re a friend of mine and would like to be on that list, please contact me with your Dreamwidth username (or your OpenID).
I have accepted a job with the Tor Project.
I joined XenSource to work on Xen in late 2007, as XenSource was being acquired by Citrix. So I have been at Citrix for about 14 years. I have really enjoyed working on Xen. There have been a variety of great people. I'm very proud of some of the things we built and achieved. I'm particularly proud of being part of a community that has provided the space for some of my excellent colleagues to really grow.
But the opportunity to go and work on a project I am so ideologically aligned with, and to work with Rust full-time, is too good to resist. That Tor is mostly written in C is quite terrifying, and I'm very happy that I'm going to help fix that!
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