Daily Archives: November 8, 2007

How to demoralise the police: This type of story justifies bringing back the death penalty where there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever of the guilt of the perpetrator. However, it wasn’t even classed as murder at the conviction and some … Continue reading →

Image from the Mail (click petrol pump for story) and how much the tax has changed from Petrolprices.com. Will there be civil disobedience again, or will it be rapidly suppressed? (Hat tip- Burning our money.)

There I was in W H Smith, browsing through the computer books. There are a surprising number of books on a very broad range of IT topics. Perusing a number of familiar styed yellow spines, I did a double-take when … Continue reading →

I wondered yesterday what would happen if I tried to photocopy a £20 note. The following happened: The machine scanned the front of the note It started to beep It displayed “Unable to copy this image” It spat out a … Continue reading →

Conspiracy theorists would have you believe that the logo of this possibly shady training organisation appears on the new English £20 note, the one with Adam Smith on the back. Get one out and have a look to see if … Continue reading →