• The British government is once again hallucinating about having “found” a huge poison terror ring. The Register has yet another great writeup: Clarke calls for ID cards after imagining huge poison terror ring. Also, follow the NO2ID to the right if you, like any sensible person should, don’t agree with having compulsory ID cards in the UK.

I would much rather be arrested than carry a compulsory ID card. Just a quick one this time!

Got up this morning, and hurried to my computer to check the shipping tracker page for my server. No updates since yesterday morning, so I thought it was a lost cause and wouldn’t arrive today at all. Oh well. Go about my usual email checking, oldest email first, nothing more than my usual cron mailings, Snort reports, etc… Until I get to the last message from the voicemail system at Oracle (yes, email, phones, and faxing are all intertwined at Oracle). The delivery man came round at 8:15 and could I please give him a call…

So I ring the guy, and he’s still outside (why??); he waited the half our it took me to get out of bed. Whip on my dressing gown and run down the stairs, sign for it, have a quick chat, and excitedly run up the stairs again. Jump in the shower, have a quick breakfast, then whip it out.
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