The ongoing struggle

Moore’s law for razor blades (via windi’s world)

“People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people.” — V
I went to see V for Vendetta last night at Odeon High Street Kensington, with Tim, Matt and Phil.
I’d been trying hard not to build this one up because most adaptions are a severe disappointment to those who enjoyed […]

Martin, why would you want voting private? In most societies and voting systems people are entitled to their opinions, to state them, and campaign on behalf of others if they like.
Note that I’m not expressing any opinion on the content of these posts (I haven’t been following it and I’m not a DD anyway, […]

Ian, without dishing out any personal insults or anything, what it boils down to is that every (supplier|vendor) can make mistakes and have problems and therefore it is every (user|client|customer)’s duty to think about how that will affect their business.
So yes I would say it is incredibly unwise to store critical data in any one […]

If you have no debts and some savings then hurry to set up a cash ISA as then you don’t get taxed on the savings. You have until the end of the tax year on April 5th to have an ISA set up with this year’s allowance.
Money Saving Expert now recommends Alliance and Leicester’s […]

According to this BBC news article, prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are being force-fed using tubes inserted into their noses to pump food directly into their systems against their will.
They are being force-fed because they tried to go on hunger strike to protest against the situation they are in. One former prisoner says he went […]

Note sure why it took me a year to find this.

I think I can finally say that I’ve finished working at Aspective and will be starting my new job at Venda on Monday 13th of March!
I’d been seriously looking for a new job since the start of January and had been generally unhappy since at least the last quarter of 2005. But I had […]

I’m very pleased to finally be able to report some progress has been made recently on improving lug.org.uk’s services.
For a very long time, all of lug.org.uk was running from a machine kindly hosted in Leeds by Energis Squared. We (well, Alasdair) had made an attempt to install Xen on it but there was something […]

You may have noticed there has been a lack of posts here recently, and might be thinking this is the typical slowdown that happens when a new blogger loses interest.
Well, I can’t promise I won’t ever lose interest, but I’m not done yet!  It’s just been a very hectic period of my life which I […]