Look, it’s really not just me against this thing you know. Look at the bright colours on CASNIC’s web site. I’ll get back to the nappy stories and obscure bands now, honest.
Monthly Archives: April 2004
ID Cards to cost £1.3bn
According to No 2 ID Cards the current government estimate for introducing this impingement on my personal civil liberties is going to be £1.3bn. Lets bear in mind that this is an estimate, and virtually without exception these are far below the actual, final cost to the tax payer. Why do I make that claim? …
ID Cards Still Won’t Work
Look, this guy is much smarter than I am, and a security expert to boot, and he says that a national ID card wouldn’t make us safer. In fact he says, and I can’t agree more, that the whole farce will actually make life worse and probably make our countries less safe.. Latest news from …
Oh Dear
Sky+ box goes boom. Andrew becomes even more grumpy. I am not even thinking about the four episodes of Angel that were stored on the hard drive and are now lost to us.
ID Cards Won’t Work
I’m not going to shut up about this ID card thing, OK. There haven’t been any comments from anyone purporting to be in government on my last piece so I presume that the civil liberties argument is still languishing under the carpet So today we present the technical and economic arguments against ID card courtesy …
Three Letter Acronyms
I’ve only just realised it, but now that she is married my sister’s initials are VCR. Well, it amused me. Unlike my wife’s initials which are definitely not a laughing matter. Oh no.
Quite Nice
Well, that was quite nice to watch. More coverage here. "I don’t like Cricket, oh no, I love it "
Guess the Band Part II
According to this week’s Popbitch the artist behind MusicalMystery.com is George Michael. Who do you think it is?
ID Cards Coming Soon
According to the Guardian today Mr Blair is going to introduce national identity cards sooner rather than later. The article includes this pearler; "Mr Blair insisted that the government had won over those who opposed the controversial move for civil liberties reasons …" Oi Tony! Over here son. I still haven’t been convinced. My position …