For the last decade or so, I've gone to RAF Leuchars Airshow with my dad, also with my late Uncle Hugh in earlier years, and with my mate Jim in later years. This year, however, I had been infected with the plague, and I'd misdiagnosed it earlier in the week as a late-summer hay fever […]
The Grauniad : [S]ince 1955, for security reasons, it has been an offence to "penetrate into or circulate within" the rest of [ Les Catacombes ] There exist, however, several secretive bands of so-called cataphiles, who gain access to the tunnels mainly after dark, through drains and ventilation shafts, and hold what in the popular […]
Quick entry before I head off to work. Yeah, to work, I'm no longer working from home. Most people who know me know this already, but I left SmoothWall Ltd. last month to work in sysadmin at Lumison , formerly edNET, an Edinburgh-based ISP. As my post to the SmoothWall community says, it was just […]
Macbeth , Act V, Scene III : "It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing." DaimlerChrysler Corporation's Reply Brief in Support of its Motion for Summary Disposition : "At bottom, SCO's arguments, though full of sound and fury, serve only to demonstrate that summary disposition should […]
BBC News: Extent of child net porn revealed — BT proactively block sites identified by the Internet Watch Foundation assessed as "illegal to view" under the 1978 Child Protection Act, presumably blocking such sites at the IP level, as they don't use transparent proxies any more . However, an interesting comment in the article is: […]
El Reg reports " The Home Office is to install iris scanning technology in major UK airports ... The Immigration Service will invite "certain groups of foreign nationals" to join the scheme. To qualify, would-be registrants must have a track record of complying with the UK's immigration laws." They're amusingly calling it the Iris Recognition […]
I voted today, have you?
According to the BBC, BT is planning to ditch the existing PSTN network and have us all using our phones over a wholly IP-based network by 2009. El Reg has further details of the last mile fibre optic trials that will take place in selected exchanges later this year as part of the initial work […]
Looks like while I was up in the Sports Cafe on Sauchiehall St after the Scotlug meeting last night, someone was in Frankensteins on West George Street spraying CS gas around the place. I've been there before and it can be pretty packed on the best of nights. If that tear gas had been something […]