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When will they learn? :-(

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

They’re at it again. When will they learn that people (well, some people) will not roll over and let their civil liberties in a “free nation” be eroded away?
Sent to my MP today:
Dear Julian Brazier,
My apologies for taking up yet more of your time, however our
Government seem to be leaving me little choice but to [...]

Thumpers at Dreamhost

Monday, December 17th, 2007

My current webhost (Dreamhost) seem to be trying out (maybe even moving to) Thumpers from their traditional NetApps.
Thumpers are (up to) 48 Terabytes of storage in 4u… that’s pretty amazing really.
This has had the slightly annoying side-effect that the .snapshot directory has disappeared meaning user-driven restores aren’t possible on some of their servers (the [...]

Little criminals?

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

With reference to this BBC news article about some boys aged 10 to 12 being hauled before the Old Bailey to answer charges of Manslaughter…
What were they doing out and in a position to do something like that without parental guidance/observation?
The age of criminal responsibility should be at such an age as to when [...]

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