El Reg reports " The Home Office is to install iris scanning technology in major UK airports ... The Immigration Service will invite "certain groups of foreign nationals" to join the scheme. To qualify, would-be registrants must have a track record of complying with the UK's immigration laws." They're amusingly calling it the Iris Recognition […]
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According to the BBC, BT is planning to ditch the existing PSTN network and have us all using our phones over a wholly IP-based network by 2009. El Reg has further details of the last mile fibre optic trials that will take place in selected exchanges later this year as part of the initial work […]
Looks like while I was up in the Sports Cafe on Sauchiehall St after the Scotlug meeting last night, someone was in Frankensteins on West George Street spraying CS gas around the place. I've been there before and it can be pretty packed on the best of nights. If that tear gas had been something […]
In shock news, Genghis has updated his blog , made more than one post in a day , and it finally doesn't look all grey and stuff! Just thought I'd mention it, because I was quite shocked, I tell you! Yours, Shocked of Chipping Sodbury.
Celtic have snagged the Double by beating the Pars 3-1 in the SFA Cup Final — reports: celticfc.net [free registration required], BBC News , Google News UK . After a fright near the end of the first half when Andrius Skerla headed in a lovely ball to the back of the net, and a strange […]
I haven't been blogging much lately, so I haven't tapped out some of the stuff I've been up to. One of those things was to sit two (cheap) Linux Professional Institute exams in the middle of last month. Net Resources through in Edinburgh were getting themselves organised to be the first LPI certification exam provider […]
Movable Type 3.0 has been released under a new licence scheme , with some commentary and explanation from Mena about the move to charging for their software. A lot of people are up in arms about it, but personally I think it's A Good Thing™, and wish them all the best. Brad Choate sums up […]
I'm getting bombarded with comment spam on this blog, even after installing MT-Blacklist . Something I've noticed after a spot of log analysis is that the kosher comments come from the HTML form generated by Movable Type at the end of each post, and are submitted by POST method (i.e. in the HTTP headers); the […]