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Another child protection panic
You (the 2 people who read this blog) may remember I posted a question a few months back. I wanted to know why people seem to be so uptight about taking photos of children when we live in a country where every city centre street has a CCTV camera on it. This was motivated [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2007 under odd, rant.
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Lies, Damn Lies…
I’m probably very late to the party, but I’ve recently finished reading Freakonomics. If you haven’t read the book, the subtitle is “A rogue economist explores the hidden side or everything”, but it has little to do with economics in the traditional sense. It claims not to have an overall theme, but I [...]
Posted: August 23rd, 2007 under rant.
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What is wrong with our MPs?
I’m sure it is just a few idiots who are giving our democratically elected representatives a bad name, but for crying out loud! Not content with deciding that they are above the laws that they enact on the rest of us, some of them have decided to spend time and effort trying to get [...]
Posted: May 24th, 2007 under odd, rant.
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