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A Database Of All Emails And Phone Calls Can Never Be Allowed To Happen

The UK government is planning a massive database containing the records of all phone and email traffic to and from the UK, with the option to outsource its creation and maintenance being considered.
So much intrusion, inconvenience and restriction is done in the name of “security”, including the decision by US auto executives to travel to [...]

BBC Report Shows Ridiculous Calls To Emergency Services

Angry about mushrooms being added to your pizza? Peeved that shop workers won’t let your Priest ass use the staff toilets in a shop?
If either of these applies to you - and you are an idiot - then you can simply dial the UK emergency services to get some justice.
A BBC report shows some of [...]

Is This Really India’s 9/11?

I was just listening to the podcast of CNN’s AC360. I like listening or watching American news. Obviously the coverage of US politics can be more in depth than elsewhere but often I like the over the top reporting of incidents, making them out to be much more important than they are to justify hours [...]

How Much Time Have You Wasted Changing Your Gmail Theme?

Google rolled out Themes for Gmail overnight (European time) and I have so far gone with about 8 of the designs before settling back on the original.
How much time have you wasted on this feature? Some of the themes are pretty nice, even the Terminal theme, but none of them were as good as the [...]

A Sense Of Treading Water

There is a strange sense at the moment, a lot of the major outcomes from the financial crisis have yet to really be put in motion and we are still getting stock markets movements up 5% one day, down 5% the next.
The latest crisis sees Nancy Pelosordi calling for a financial bailout of US car [...]