Recent Writing

I was going to go with "technologically raped", but that's a bit sensationalist. Granted I'm probably going a bit over the top, but it looks like some researchers from the University of Bath, my home town, were let loose with various bluetooth tools and equipment. The aim of their research was to do some basic modelling…

For those of us who didn't get OpenID when it started popping up (or rather didn't fully differentiate between the nuances of authorisation, authentication and identification [and attracted a sound bashing from Theo and chip]), might be interested in watching Simon Willison's talk on OpenID at Google from last Friday.

My OpenPGP key has been revoked and all relevant key servers updated. I will be distributing a new one shortly.

Despite having some ideas I don't agree with, perhaps the fact that the conservatives are stating that ID cards don't work, cost a fortune and would plunge the UK into a giant panopticon-esque state, is a significant reason to vote for them shortly?

What the fuck is wrong with this bloodly country? The sad thing is that it won't be the fact citizens will be finger printed, but the fact that queues are longer, which people moan about.