Apr
29
Quantum Cryptography
April 29, 2005 | Comments Off
Seriously - isn’t that the coolest sounding concept you’ve ever heard of? I mean - ‘Quantum Cryptography’ - it sounds like a bit of Star Trek technobabble, but it’s real.
“Simply put, quantum cryptography involves encoding bits of encryption data onto particles of light - photons.”
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Apr
26
Televiewing
April 26, 2005 | 1 Comment
The box set of The West Wing Season Five should be arriving today - I haven’t seen a single episode of this one, and it’s the first after the departure of series creator Aaron Sorkin, which led to very mixed reviews. So I await viewing it with a mixture of interest and trepidation.
That’s assuming […]
Apr
24
Election Round-Up
April 24, 2005 | 6 Comments
I’m going to start a catch-up entry on all things related to the Election and try to get it to a point where it’s postable withing the next day or two.
To start with, as I’ve remarked before, I’m a bit of an election junky, so I’ll be up late on the night in question following […]
Apr
24
Damn Spam
April 24, 2005 | 3 Comments
I’ve been having a *lot* of trouble recently with comment spammers round here. I’ve had waves of it before, but just recently it’s been getting to the point of seriously annoying. I just had to delete 45 comments that appeared overnight, on top of the 20-odd from Friday and another 20-odd on Thursday, […]
Apr
24
Out Of The Mouths….
April 24, 2005 | 1 Comment
During that long silence a couple of weeks ago, I had occasion to call Microsoft for some technical support, and as I was doing so immediately after spending well over an hour on the line to Dell’s support people too, I was not in the mood to be handed around five different people in different […]
Apr
22
It’s All Go….
April 22, 2005 | Comments Off
Honestly - you wait years for recognition and two stories about it turn up at once.
Spain paves way for gay marriage.
The Vatican is reportedly not happy.
Edit: Told you
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Apr
21
Civil Unions
April 21, 2005 | Comments Off
The US State of Connecticut has become the first voluntarily to make civil unions for gay and lesbian couples legal.
The bill which does this contains an amendment which specifically defines marriage as being between one man and one woman, in order to avoid the suggestion that this is actually gay marriage, but now see the […]
Apr
20
Grief! It’s Been Ten Days!
April 20, 2005 | Comments Off
I seriously thought I was getting back on track with this blogging thing, but the last week and a bit has been stupidly busy. I’ve also been dealing with significant spam comment incursions.
However, I have things to say about the election, taking exercise, family matters and various TV things. I’ll try to do […]
Apr
10
It’s Pronounced ‘ConstanTYNE’….
April 10, 2005 | 1 Comment
Finally got round to seeing Constantine on Friday evening, which despite what they say in the film I will continue to pronounce correctly :-)
Drawing significant elements from Garth Ennis’ Dangerous Habits storyline in the comic, it’s by no means a bad modern horror film. It draws on a variety of other sources, including every […]
Apr
7
Yes To Labour, No To Blair?
April 7, 2005 | 6 Comments
Over on Millarworld Mark Millar is highlighting a useful solution for those who would like to see another Labour Government, but who believe that Tony Blair should not be at the head of the new government because he’s a lying, arrogant bastard (who, me? opinionated?).
That solution is to vote Labour locally, but send some […]