Being one of those deplorably macho types who has an Army-looking watch and sets it regularly, I put on Radio 4 shortly before what I hoped might be a time signal.
There was this old dear waffling on. It was about how we should all be cheerful despite the prospect of economic collapse because Britain still [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Don’t touch that dial
Posted in Uncategorized on 31 August, 2008 | 8 Comments »
IP address locations
Posted in internet, tagged IP addresses on 30 August, 2008 | 4 Comments »
leg-iron, at underdogs bite upwards, suggests that one’s location is always disclosed to websites by one’s browser, which has to transmit to the said sites its IP address.
At my age one hesitates to correct anyone younger on the subject of technology but I think that, at least in my case, this is not so.
Checking, as [...]
Even I can understand this
Posted in economics, tagged securities on 30 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From the LPUK unofficial blog (Patrick Vessey), a short account and some highly alarming graphs which encourage me to the conclusion that if the UK is to continue to receive nuclear weapons from the US, and Gordon Brown to remain One Of The Five Most Powerful Men In The World, then we are going to [...]
Pitchforks and torches
Posted in Politics, tagged david miliband, demonology on 30 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
MOON You‘re the Devil?
SPIGGOTT (shakes hands) Incarnate.
['Bedazzled']
Trooper Thompson is convinced that Miliband, D. is diabolical-within-the-meaning-of-the Act. Perhaps wisely, he proposes no immediate solution (but instead provides a link to the excellent music from The Omen).
I don’t think he’s the Devil. The Devil is better looking and has a cool cape and even cooler dead-black rainbow [...]
What appears to be good news
Posted in law, tagged eu on 30 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
…from Dr. Sean Gabb, at the Libertarian Alliance.
In what I believe a chemist might see as catalytic action, the loss of an appeal in re weights and measures has had peculiar and unexpected implications for the relation between the UK and the EU.
There is no point in writing a précis; please read the original. [...]
No accounting for tastes
Posted in Admin, tagged statistics on 30 August, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Usually I try to maintain some kind of standards on this blog. I don’t swear very much; I try not to make too many completely uncorroborated assertions or to compile posts wholly from quotes or links; I cite sources, when I can find them; and I look a lot of things up on Wikipedia, believing, [...]
Report it. Report everything
Posted in policing, tagged delation, terrorism on 30 August, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cory Doctorow, from Boing Boing, deems ’stupid’ the attachment to a branch of Tesco in north London of yet another of the Met. Police’s be-scared-of-everything-and-report-it-to-us posters.
I’m not surprised that they don’t like pay-as-you-go mobile phones. With such devices are confidential shop-your-neighbours lines inundated with untraceable, anonymous, malicious, time-wasting allegations, nearly all of which are based [...]
Nice review
Posted in Admin, tagged review on 30 August, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I am obliged to A Very British Dude, now added to the RSS and blogroll, for his favourable review.
One can hardly do better than ‘Go Read the Whole thing’.
Unfortunately the only comment to this piece on his blog reads:
No.
and is from someone called Emily. I do hope that’s not the Emily I know.
Libertarian health policy
Posted in libertarianism, tagged health care on 30 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At the LPUK unofficial blog party leader Patrick Vessey (who, when I was working for the Americans, I should without fail have referred to as ‘el numero uno honcho*’) discusses health policy.
He says:
It would be interesting to hear people’s thoughts on this topic.
I feel that before taking this on I should point out that though [...]
Same old trick
Posted in law, tagged catch-alls, official secrets acts, terrorism on 30 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Obnoxio wonders what’s going on.
He says:
I promise, I am not making this up.
Remarking upon the people arrested for the ‘terrorist offences’ of
…possession of an article in circumstances which give rise to a reasonable suspicion that possession is for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism…
and
…collecting or making a [...]
