Over on Facebook, someone posted a link to this petition:
Home Office @ukhomeoffice: Change the law so 17-year-olds are treated as children in custody #4JoeBasically, there's a discrepancy in UK law: if a 17 year old is arrested by the police then they get treated as an adult, but if they are subsequently charged then they'll be treated as a child ( Read more... )

Following on from my comments on Avenue Q (and its famous song), a few thoughts on porn.

( Should be relatively safe for work )

First up, I hope everyone had a good Christmas break. I was in work until Wednesday (Christmas Eve), but now I'm off until next weekend (back on Monday 5th), so that's a nice break.

I've recently updated my website, and I'm now working on getting my book errata online. This is useful in a wider context, since I'm figuring out SVG, MathML, and XML ( Read more... )

Been a mixed few days.

Good news - I won my first Ebay auction on Friday, for a copy of Biggles. It's a great film, and I've been looking for a copy for ages - it's now been deleted in the UK, and the DVD release got cancelled, so it was hard to find. Anyway, that arrived yesterday, so I watched it last night. It's very much an 80s film, with all ( Read more... )