Now Khalid is back there cackling at the thought of all those Americans exposing the holes in their socks on cold airport floors.
Selfridges recently announced that it was getting rid of gendered floors and would just have three floors of fashion merchandised together so that customers could shop according to an expression of "self".
Anti-virus company Sophos is backing the move, with its global head of security research, James Lyne, saying that many home and small business routers still have "basic web application security floors which allow remote control or information exposure".
In the auditorium at the far side of the park, in a high-ceilinged room with wooden floors and long black curtains, a small audience settles in to listen to a series of international musicians taking part in an experimental gig.
Located on the upper floors of the Time Place Tower, in the heart of Dubai Marina, one of the best things about this apartment is its spectacular cityscape views.
Shops get in on the act too, and I'm indebted to @andrea_wulf for this one: Fussbodenschleifmaschinenverleih, I'm reliably informed, is the place to turn to if you need your wooden floors sanded down.
The outcry helped prompt the city's first comprehensive zoning law requiring tall buildings to have "setbacks" at higher floors.
Oriental rugs on parquet floors, french windows to balcony and garden, bedrooms brimful of interest: she collects simple things from long-gone days.
The houses have wooden floors, four-poster beds and Portuguese antiques – presented in a style you'd expect from a property created by Wilbert Das, creative director of Diesel.
Images have emerged purporting to show damage to the upper floors of the building.
Rescue crews responding to reports of people possibly trapped on upper floors of the buildings converged quickly after the first reports of the disaster at about 3.20pm ET. Twenty minutes later, firefighters on ladders poured water on flames leaping as high as three stories from the roof of the buildings, on Second Avenue near the corner of Seventh Street.
