Caboose

News stories like this one seem to be pretty common these days. It’s usually just down to laziness and a lack of knowledge about security. Of course, behind it is the issue that the companies involved don’t care all that much about the security of your information.

Noticed this last week, why doesn’t the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands website have a .gs (South Georgia) address?

I wandered into CB1 on my way back from town and sat and relaxed while I waited for my coffee. Just as well I wasn’t in a hurry because it took 15 minutes.

Next to me were a couple obviously planning their wedding. It was all I could do to resist laughing out loud occasionally, it sounded like they spend most of their time as project managers or something.

When I first heard one of them saying “I’ll take an action on sorting out my outfit” I thought it might be a piss-take, although there were no signs of amusement. When they started discussing “milestones” it was all I could do to avoid spitting my coffee (it had finally arrived) across the room .

I just noticed I haven’t added an entry for a while. I had a good excuse today, an absolutely stinking hangover, I even felt so bad that I took the train to work.

My theory is that it was all caused by changing from Old Speckled Hen to Stella during the evening, probably not a good combination.

I just found this article in the Sunday Herald. I know it’s not that different from all the other kinds of sandwich you can buy but there just seems to be something wrong about buying pre-made jam sandwiches.

See here for a vaguely relevant song I learned at primary school.

The Register is a great site for computer-related news, I especially like its cynical attitude.

Today they’re covering Intel’s cunning plan for secure computing. As usual ‘secure’ doesn’t mean that you are protected but that software and media files are protected from you. More here.

I hadn’t realised until this evening that tomorrow is a significant date for more than one reason. On the 11th of September 1973 the democratically-elected government of Chile was overthrown in a coup supported by the government of the USA.

So spare a moment tomorrow to think about those who suffered years under a brutal regime in Chile, as well as those affected by the terrorist attacks in America last year.
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It’s tempting to comment that some people have too much time on their hands: The Utopian Calendar. On the other hand, just think what they might be getting up to if they didn’t have that to keep them busy…

Update (7/2/04): the link above is currently broken. Try Mars Engineering instead.

My parents came through to visit me in Cambridge at the weekend, so I took a few photos. We also drove down to Colchester to go to the 60th birthday party of an old friend of my parents, joined by little sister.
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Found a site that translates text into various dialects of English, whoohoo.co.uk.

The results are a bit grim, I’m sure the Scottish one has mostly been produced by listening to Groundskeeper Willie on The Simpsons.

What I was meaning to look for was this.