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Category Archives: Brickbats
Angels Don’t Need Driving Licences….
My Mum would have been 70 today; but died in 1990; we’ll raise a glass on her behalf tonight. I did not need to be reminded of that, but got one anyway – from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency … Continue reading
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O2 – Get Your Act Together..
Here’s my experience of the last few days: – Thursday morning, took my broken iPhone into the retail store in Falkirk to get a new one, and renew my contract which had expired. Told that ‘our systems are down’, can … Continue reading
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‘Chipped’ Passports
Just had my first experience going through the ‘chipped’ passport line at Heathrow; pretty shambolic would be my first impression: – no clear explanation of what those machines with the big lights and cameras are doing – have to take … Continue reading
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Lockerbie bomber’s release was wrong, says William Hague
UK foreign secretary tells senator John Kerry release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was misguided but decision was one for the Scottish government Continue reading
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Tagged Article, BP, Business, David Batty, Jack Straw, John Kerry, Libya, Lockerbie plane bombing, News, Politics, Scotland, Scottish politics, United States, William Hague, World news
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Has the world gone ever madder today than usual?
I was glancing at BBC News web site and at the top stories. It strikes me that on this evidence the world (or at least the UK part of it) has gone even crazier today than usual on the privacy … Continue reading
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Alan Turing Petition
Check out this worthy petition on No10 site. ‘Alan Turing was the greatest computer scientist ever born in Britain. He laid the foundations of computing, helped break the Nazi Enigma code and told us how to tell whether a machine … Continue reading
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Summer in Scotland…..
Summer in Scotland….. Originally uploaded by iainh1 This sums up the weather in Scotland over the last two weeks…. Remind me to go somewhere else for summer next year.
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R.I.P. Nick Givotovsky
I was shocked today to read this …..about the death of Nick Givotovsky, age just 44. I first met Nick, along with Mark Lizar, over many beers, in the Sun in Splendour pub in Notting Hill – a few years … Continue reading
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Google Street View
I flagged to them that I did not want our flat shown on the view; they responded as per below…..and wiped out about 40 flats alongside mine. Not very subtle then…. Hello, Our records show that you recently flagged an … Continue reading
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(shocking) School surveillance: how big brother spies on pupils
Cameras in the toilets; CCTV in the classroom; pupils’ fingerprints kept in a database . . . Can’t happen here? Think again, because the surveillance state is quietly invading our schools Continue reading →