Sent to BBC Comments today regarding the new style on the BBC News website…
I may be in a minority, but although my screen may be 1024×768, that
is not the resolution at which my applications run. I often (nee all
the time) have many applications open at once and the most efficient
way to know what’s going on […]
I would have emailed this to them, but no email addresses are available on the corporation’s website and, when resorting to guess work, customer.services, customer.service don’t work. I then tried postemaster@morrisons.co.uk which also bounced. This is, in itself, against the requirements of having a mail system on the internet. Anyway, this is what I was […]
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 […]
Just a notice to say I’ve had a ePetition accepted on the Number 10 Website regarding the application of Digital Rights Management — the ability for software and hardware to decide if users are “allowed” to do something: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make DRM and associated technologies illegal in IT hardware […]
US laws invading privacy all over the shop! How dare they?!
BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme are doing their annual listener vote. Listeners can suubmit suggestions for UK Laws which need repealing.
Please participate in this and get some of the rediculous laws that have been passed recently by government taken back off the statute books.
Some of the laws you may wish to consider are:
Terrorism Act 2000
Sections […]
On PM on the way home today, they were talking about the massive shortage of donors of sperm. One thing they said was that, for example, there is only one registered sperm donor in Scotland and (if I’m remembering correctly) none in Northern Ireland.
This got me thinking about whether or not it would be the […]
I’ve been umming and arrings (and drooling) over getting a new camera for some time now (seriously thinking since about March).
Most of this time, I’ve had my eyes on a Canon 350D with some combination of lenses. [1]
What I’m after is a low-end, but extensible DSLR which I can experiment with, have fun with and, […]
Over the past couple of years there have been at least two (well, two that I can remember) cases of prosecutions of Dangerous Driving being brought against police officers.
Both of these cases have involved a highly trained officer driving a new car on an M class road at night very fast (in excess of 150mph).
Road […]