ID cards - now the lunacy is unleashed

Great article over at BlairWatch today on just how competent the National Identity Register Database and ‘Identification Gulags’ will have to be (link). Some choice numbers from the article.
We’re looking at a system workload in the first year of ten times the long term load. In a new system set up by a Government IT […]

Back in the UK, Back To Planning Another US Trip for the Portable Media Expo

Yes it never ends. Now the jetlag is over and I’mjust naturally tired, it’s time to look ahead and do some planning for the next trip out to the USA. It’s more than likely going to be at the end of September for the Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California. Of course, as normal with […]

Prepare The Gulags To Number, Fingerprint, File and Scan Everyone in the UK

After last nights playing with words that ensures every new UK passport applicant from 2008 will have to attend a Government Appointed ‘Gulag’ Identification Centre to prove who you are, then be fingerprinted, have your eye iris scanned and recorded, given a database identifier number, and forcibly placed on the central Orwellian database. You’ll have […]

Debunking The PodShow Contract

One of this week’s podcast episodes of Keith and the Girl rips into the Podshow contract, and it’s pretty painful. And not just becuase of what the contract says, but because the viewpoint taken by the hosts is a particularly vicious ‘for the comedy’ tone.
Actually, back up one, if you look at the contract […]

Las Vegas is Weird

It’s still hard to put ointo words just how weird Las Vegas is. Probably the easiest way to relate is what would happen if a hotel chain decided that rather than building around a Venice theme (which is what the owners decided to do with The Venetian, where Mix06 was held), they decided to do […]

Write to the House of Lords on ID Cards NOW!

Round five of the parliamentary ping pong that defines “voluntary” as “whenever you have to upate your passport, we’ll stamp, file, index and register you for the National Database” is this Tuesday in the House of Lords. If you have ANY feelings on this issue, then find a Lord/Baroness.Bishop/etc, and tell them why you have […]

Mark Hunter and The Mellow Monday Show, Now on The Podcast Network

A long time ago A few months back, in a galaxy a part of Strathclyde far far away a few miles away from Edinburgh, Mark Hunter decided to leave Adam Curry and Podshow to run the Tartan Podcast. At the time I posted my thoughts on the decision, as did Mark. His reason at the […]

Back From The USA

For those of you following the trip, I got back to Scotland on Friday afternoon, and I’ve spent the weekend decompressing. Back to work and websites properly tomorrow (Monday). In the meantime, for everyone who helped out with my trip, from beds, sofas, collecting and dropping me off at the airports, bringing me Dairy Milk […]

Mix06 Bingo

Having fun at Mix06, waiting to see if anyone is going to slip ‘off-message’ at The Venetian? Then while you’re waiting, why not take part in Mix06 bingo!

Simply print off the card, mark out the target phrase or buzzword, and the frist to shout “I’ve got the mix to shout Bingo!” with a full […]

TPN Rock Session With The Outfit.

So I’ve been juggling TPN Rock while I’m away in the USA doing all the Tech Conference Podcasts. There’s been a few things to consider, but the two main ones are the one year anniversary of TPN Rock (which will be on March 25th) and my ability to really promote the two year end shows, […]

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