School Fingerprinting; A U Turn?
Via the No2ID blog, this, from the Register: The Department for Education and Skills is to reconsider the fingerprinting of school children after a four […]
Month: January 2007
Is Anyone This Stupid?
A new email scam is doing the rounds; hit man spam: The e-mail, in less-than-perfect English, claims that the recipient has been stalked by a […]
Scott’s Last Letter
Captain Robert Scott was one of my childhood heroes. Given my antipathy for the cold, let alone the sub-zero antarctic temperatures, perhaps it should have […]
RelevantNoise
I noticed a bot crawling my blog calling itself relevantNoise the other day. Curious, I traced it back to its owners. Having looked at relevantNoise’s […]
Smoking in the Home
If anyone is ever in any doubt about the insatiable appetite of the monster that is fascism never being satisfied, then the shrill, accusing screech of […]
EU Driving Harmonisation
Patrick Hennessy in the Telegraph complains today about EU harmonisation of driving standards. British motorists face the imposition of “European standard” speed and drink-drive limits […]
Council Tax
ZANU Labour’s stealth taxes continue apace. Although why we call them stealth taxes, I really don’t know. There’s not much that is stealthy about their […]
BBC Breakfast Silliness
I really should stop watching the BBC Breakfast programme; it does my blood pressure no good whatsoever. The first of two annoying, infantile stories caught […]
Harder Driving Tests
Every so often, the same stories get trotted out and the same solutions proposed. So, today, we get a reprise of the “killer drivers and […]
Further Thoughts on Libertarianism
I know I’ve discussed it before, but a brief exchange with notsaussure causes me to revisit just what I mean when I label myself a […]