Back, safe ( Read more... )

Howard Flight should get a sodding medal for being the first politico to admit what most of us know (although perhaps not, since he didn't know he was being taped and has since "regret"ed it) - which is that the main concern of a politician, regardless of all the pretty talk of "we serve our country", is to be in power.

Whatever the fine ( Read more... )

The national rollout of the UK police's ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) system is kicking off, with the goal of deploying a network of over 2,000 cameras on motorways, major roads and city centres. The system is claimed to be able to run database checks on 3,600 plates per hour, on vehicles travelling at speeds of up to 100 mph - but ( Read more... )

until I listened. Then my jaw hit the floor...

http://www.sumama.com/misc/911_tape.wma

This woman called 911 because the burger joint wouldn't make her burger the way she wanted it. She wanted them to "send an officer down" to sort it out.

Words fail me.

Eighty-thousand houses need to be demolished yearly for the next decade if the UK is to meet its climate change commitments, research suggests.

The demolition of older houses built to low environmental standards would be four times the current rate, Oxford University researchers said.

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The 'bad behaviour' of e-mail users is helping to sustain the spam industry, a new study has found ( Read more... )

EDS has signed the contract to overhaul technology for the UK's Ministry of Defence, after being named as preferred bidder earlier this month.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/23/eds_signs_mod/

Found it while messing around with the website stats ( Read more... )

Thomas, closeup...
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