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Lords bat terror bill back to MPs
[news.bbc.co.uk] Tony Blair’s anti-terror measures are due to go back before MPs, after peers again voted to amend the bill. Lords insisted that a time limit or “sunset clause” should be added to the bill, which allows control orders to be imposed on terror suspects. The Lords also demanded a higher burden of proof before…
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UK National Loyalty Card
Robin Wilton – mate of mine, sound geezer – is writing extensively about matters of Identity Cards, a topic about which he knows a great deal from his past and current occupations inside Sun Microsystems. He writes: [blogs.sun.com] I am trying to get a handle on what affects citizen uptake and usage of Identity Cards,…
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US Version of “The Office”
It doesn’t seem to suck. I am impressed. Trailer, below. From: Robert Diamond “The Office” on NBC [www.rresults.com]
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Quote from the new Doctor Who
If this is accurate, I will have very high hopes – this could be a line as-delivered-by Tom Baker… [found.pale.org] Quote from the new Doctor Who: “If you’re an alien, how come you sound like you’re from the North?” “Lots of planets have a North” …that said, one of the writers is Steven Moffat, he…
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Intensely, relentlessly, and amusingly pragmatic and iconoclastic…
My presentation got a short review by Geoff: Grids for Financial Services – Alec Muffett: Intensely, relentlessly, and amusingly pragmatic and iconoclastic. But you knew that. That’s nice. Possibly as nice as his comment from November 2002: I find your blog bizarrely compelling. This disturbs me. …although I do wonder whether a synthesis of bizzare,…
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Pictures from a Corporate Conference…
…and associated networking and socialising. More at [www.crypticide.com] Whilst we’re on the topic, isn’t this the least tactful manufacture of bag with which to be walking through airport security?
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You meet the nicest people on BMW Motorcycles…
So: Rob and I were in San Francisco, getting a little early shopping in before our corporate conference kicked-off, first and foremost trying to buy most of the contents of the local branch of REI; I had raided the luggage department, the camping stoves, and frisbee section; Rob had purchased for his wife a dehydrated…
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Exercising for (real) men…
My mate Grum mailed me thusly: Knowing your pechant for strange hobbies and pastimes, this story had you written all over it! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4311821.stm …really, I have no idea where I’d find a pole that would support me, nor any place to stand one. If you think this sounds silly or sad, consider that in certain…
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extremely inventive knife-stand
an amusing take on design: [www.viceversa.com] – link from Bart.
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2004’s Scariest Halloween Costumes
How on earth did I manage to miss this webiste with this picture last October?
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A thought that has struck me after far too long…
…were I ever to breed, and have a son, I suppose I should have to name him Robert Thomas Francis…
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SHA-1 and the Great Cosmic Cryptographic “Off-Switch”
In a slightly perverse way I almost enjoy watching the media reporting and reading the third-party pseudery blogging of people who’ve read [www.schneier.com] – it seems a year cannot now go by without someone saying that “MD5 is dead”, “SHA-1 is dead”, “RSA is dead” … stating some degree of academic justification that is rapidly…