…from Lord Mackenzie, on ID cards:
He told BBC News: “Let’s look at the Soham murders. If Ian Huntley had had an identity card, would he have got the job at Soham school which allowed him to commit the murders? I think not.”
Erm, I think so, your lordship. Huntley didn’t disguise his identity to get the job so where would an ID card confirming that help? (Ignoring the too-often-forgotten fact that he didn’t work at the school attended by his victims.) The problems highlighted by the Bichard Inquiry related failures in the way Humberside and Cambridgeshire police forces recorded intelligence information, and how that weakened criminal records checking, an entirely separate issue from ID cards. A shameful attempt to use an emotive crime to distort a controversial issue.
Via Make Blog comes PocketMod. It’s a DIY paper-based PDA. Customise which pages you want, print it out, some folds and a snip, and voilà!
I chose a 2005 calendar, a week planner, a shopping list, a sudoku puzzle, a blank sudoku grid, and some note space.
Yes, I’m having a slow lunch hour.
Apparently there aren’t enough nice pictures on blogs. So here’s the Moon from where I work as it was late yesterday afternoon. Although my camera phone and the Eldoradoesque framing do make it look like the Sun.
These were so much fun last time, I think they may be regular feature. These come from this week’s Dewey Decimal subject mappings.
- Longest number: Race films – 791.43652996073
- Sexiest number: Erotic stories, Korean – 895.7300803538
- Grossest number: Sick in motion pictures – 791.436561
- Most out of this world: Lunar volcanoes – 551.2109991
- Most down to Earth: Interactive whiteboards – 004.75
- Down with the kids number: Video wrestling games – 794.86812
- D’oh: Simpson, Homer (Fictitious character) – 741.5973
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