Dropsafe

Chris Gerhard cited this article in The Register: [www.theregister.co.uk] A Register reader passes us an eye-witness account of progress with the see through clothes scanner currently being tested at Heathrow Terminal 4. As one might expect from a country that deploys stuff without considering health implications, the testing is splendidly incoherent, and unlikely to produce…

Incidentally, this is an interesting page of bombing-related history taken from [news.bbc.co.uk] Bombings 31 Oct 1971: Bomb explodes in Post Office tower 22 Feb 1972: IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks 06 Sep 1972: Olympic hostages killed in gun battle 19 Sep 1972: Parcel bomb attack on Israeli embassy 10 Sep 1973: Bomb blasts…

I’ve spent more than a week marveling that there has been no coverage of the terrible threat of global terrorism, chiefly because the world has had it driven home that when Mother Nature wants to create havoc, she can kill fifty times as many people as the 9/11 terrorists with just a little slip of…

I just received this: To Alec Muffett, I’m a 19yr Australia male, and interested in taking up a career in I.T. Security. What i would like to know from you is do you have any recommendation as to where to begin to learn about I.T security. I have read your site and it’s one of…

OK, this is driving me crazy; on the southbound M40, as you pass into Oxfordshire, approaching the Banbury junctions the Prodrive building will be on your right, and from somewhere will come the aroma of chocolate, or perhaps coffee beans, being roasted or otherwise cooked. The scent is not strong, but it is consistent, and…

I sense impending old-fartdom, not least because some of the signs are becoming manifest: you don’t get Christmas lights like you used to. Now I don’t exactly dislike the houses – over here in Britain has seen fungal growth in people setting-out vast quantities of exterior Christmas lighting, so much so that some entire farmsteads…

I just got my first (and to date only) Christmas present, and it’s still 2004, even! And it’s a good’un! Rachel, Graham & Chris – although I suspect the latter 7yo wasn’t really involved in this one – provided me with a copy of this mavellous book and a close-packed travellers loo roll, or toilet…

ITYS. From the BBC, even. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4135687.stm

Well it’s amazing how in the space of 36 hours how one’s plans for the remainder of the remaining New-Year vacation can get turned upside down; and yet it started so well… From the perspective of the typical British lad-about-town with nothing else to be doing, nor anyone else to be seeing, the Christmas holiday…

More from Cynthia, filed yesterday: An APB went out on the ex-pat grapevine this morning for English/French/German-speaking people to look after tourists brought to BKK, whether injured, bereaved, orphaned or whatever. So Sonja and i went and registered ourselves, then went off to the Red Cross to give blood. Blood donations: there isn’t a culture…

In the spirit of Godwin’s Law I am half-inclined to run a sweepstake about how long it will be before we see news articles and self-aggrandising postings about how: The Blogosphere is helping organise disaster relief in Tsunami-hit SE Asia and India! …like blogging needed some justification for its continued existence, or something. I give…

Hinting at some of the instrastructure issues that relief efforts will face, Cynthia Milton writes: I’m begining to feel like the Rain God in the Hitchhiker’s Guide. Quakes and other disasters seem to be following me around. The tally so far is four quakes and two typhoons. This one was felt a little in Bangkok…