A student who called a mounted policeman’s horse ‘gay’ will not be prosecuted, it has been revealed.
His remarks were deemed likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
To who!?
An obvious case of a failure of sense of humour on the part of the police, there. The guy was a drunken student out after his final exams!
As of last Thursday it is now illegal (in the US) to anonymously annoy people online. Stop and think about that for a moment. If you do something that someone else regards as an annoyance, and you don’t disclose your true identity, you can be liable for a fine or a maximum two years imprisonment.
This […]
Found via jwz’s LiveJournal.
The other day I got this strange text message on my phone saying I’d been sent a video message, from a phone number I didn’t recognise, pointing me to Orange’s MMS site. Thinking it was spam I forgot about it for a few days, but then as I was sending a text message […]
Galloway joins Big Brother house, thus quashing any promise that he was ever a serious politician. Seriously what is a member of parliament of Great Britain doing in a reality TV show? Does he not have more important things to get on with? Should he not be busy working for his constituents […]
The last two days I’ve been getting the following breakage email from the daily updates script on one of my etch Xen domains:
/etc/cron.daily/local-apt:
W: GPG error: http://admin.curacao.strugglers.net etch
Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified
because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY
010908312D230C5F
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
On further investigaton it […]
Do initrds have any use at all apart from:
Distribution kernels where the packager has no idea what hardware the kernel will need to run on
Kernels intended to work on a large variety of machines without modification (really just another variant of the above use)
Unusual setups like running your root filesystem inside a filesystem that needs […]
There seems to be something slightly broken with my feed URLs at the moment, the ones at the bottom of the page. For some reason they have ‘feed:’ prepended to them which of course confuses the browsers and aggregators because they try to use ‘feed’ as a protocol.
I’m looking into this and don’t know […]
So I’ve installed my first ever blog. What has this accomplished so far? Not a lot, however I am impressed by:
The swishness of the AJAX-powered editing window, with its resize and raw HTML editing, etc.
The overall speed and cleanliness of the WordPress interface
Yes, WordPress is very impressive. And Free! For the […]