A woman has complained after the bed in which she was giving birth collapsed. I’d say she’s got a fair point.
One of the world’s acknowledged experts on the creation of secure systems has written a good piece making fun of security at airports, which is published in today’s New York times. If only The Powers That Be would listen.
I don’t quite understand why The Mayor of London should be pushing the ‘Oyster Card’ as much as he is – but the cost of paying with cash has now risen to twice (or perhaps more than twice) the cost of using Ken’s pet payment scheme.
Now that my thesis is done, I find reading about investigations into procrastination interesting, informative, and amusing.
The Economist blog has a good article about why the Green movement only champions certain solutions to the cause of global warming, arguably (after wildlife protection) the only one of its many aims to have captured public and political imaginations.
The Civitas blog has taken a stance against the niqab. As they point out, the question of individual choice is only part of the equation. This is not, after all, simply a matter of fashion, nor it is not intended as such by its wearers or their theological leaders. Rather, it is a garment that [...]
The Telegraph points out that film-makers should chose locations with more care. Not every town outside Western Europe and America is overrun with guns. So I’m told.
For the truly paranoid, careless parent, help is now at hand in the form of the i-Kids child tracking device. In this initial version, the device is not actually surgically implanted, though perhaps this step is just a matter of time. Under UK law, it seems, the poor child would actually have the consent to [...]
The House of Lords debated metrication on Monday. I hope that sanity will eventually prevail, and the current system of dual labelling will be permitted to continue.