Government Database Security

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/11/20/government-security-failure/
"HM Revenue and Customs has lost the data of 15 million child benefit recipients, and that the head of HMRC has resigned."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/database_bad_say_docs/
"three-quarters [of GPs] say records will be less secure once they are made available to NHS and social service staff on the central database."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/21/hmarc_ebay_auction/
Spoof eBay sale of the missing disks.

Snowtrike

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Halftrack trike: http://www.velovision.com/cgi-bin/show_comments.pl?storynum=886
http://www.bentrideronline.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=288&blogId=1
(and bike version - http://www.ktrakcycle.com/index.html (annoying Flash warning))

(We were discussing the Amazon Kindle on the same IRC channel, but I think http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/1071748.html covers everything we said and more.)

Cycling in the rain

Actually more road spray than rain. I wonder if I can trust Rain-X on my glasses. Maybe I should consider going back to contact lenses.