Apparently Alistair Darling is "very serious" about satellite tracking of cars in the U.K in order to charge us for the use of the roads. It's not as if we don't pay enough road tax, or enough tax on our petrol (to put this in perspective Americans pay 27 pence per litre, France pays 56 pence per litre while the U.K pays 81 pence per litre, of which 61.5 pence is Tax)
So now the plan is to fit every car with a satellite tracking system so that you can be charged an amount depending on which road you drive on (1.6p/mile for country roads, 16p/mile in towns). Neglecting the need for everyone to have such a system fitted to their car (and in Newham alone 3,802 in the year 2002/03 were found without road tax) but anyone with even the slightest fear of "big brother" would be worried that the government could track where you drove so accurately.
The plan is for this system to be in place by 2013 although there are plans that lorries will be monitored by the scheme by 2006, I suppose our only chance is that the government make a huge pigs ear out of it by using the lowest bidders (something they tend to go for when privatising other public companies)

It beggars belief but Kazaa is threatening to sue ISPs who host Kazaa Lite. Don't Sharman Networks (the company that owns Kazaa) see the hypocrisy in threatening someone with the DMCA for copyright infringement?
Americans are funny.

This article suggests that the NHS might defect to SUN Linux away from Microsoft. If they do, will it mean all those hard working MSCE Engineers would then be out of a job?
The problem with this idea is that (no matter how much you dislike Microsoft) most people happy to use a computer have learnt from using their computer at home, which would usually mean Windows. Will these non-IT people (nurses, admin staff, doctors, etc) have the confidence to use applications that are not familiar, and if not, how much will retraining cost?

Welcome to the new home for my blog, with a brand new name and a new host. Because Blogware is more complex than Blogger, it might take me a little while to work out how to use it effectively. For a start off I don't yet know how to edit the plain HTML of the page so I can get my GeoURL stuff working, but others have managed it so I'm sure I can...
...eventually.