Pruning the blogroll

It seems I have upset Leg-Iron with a post I made, purely in jest, on his blog.  He has asked me not to do so again.  As a gesture to his obvious antipathy,… Read More →

Comments policy update

Regarding replies to comments. There is a point past which I will not go when answering comments. Sensible points, well raised will always be addressed. Well, if I think they are, and if… Read More →

Don’t drink and… legislate?

I was amused to hear about a Scottish Labour MP running amok in the Mother of all Parliaments, having looked too long upon the grape, so to speak. It got me wondering about… Read More →

Even more Surveillance Society UK – Coming Soon

You know, I must be going a bit mutton in my old age. When Cameroid and Cleggsky got elected in the UK, I’m sure there were promises to dismantle, or roll back ‘the… Read More →

The greatest threat to free speech online – The United Nations?

A great many nation states do not like the dear old Interweb. Well actually that isn’t strictly speaking true. They like the business opportunities of online trading, but what they don’t like is… Read More →

March 8th – Death day for the Internet?

Picked up from the Russian news service, RT, here. Apparently the FBI will be shutting down some temporary DNS servers set up to replace those infected by the botnet trojan, a nasty little… Read More →

One of the reasons I left the UK

One day in mid 2006, I was off duty and busy writing when the doorbell of our tiny little terraced house buzzed. I went to the front door to be greeted by a… Read More →

Just go and see….

I’ve dug my popcorn maker out of cold storage. Just go over to wattsupwiththat. They have a confession. They have a follow on. Oh baby, that’s gonna hurt. Especially when the lawyers get… Read More →

Nature and straight lines

One of the things that always makes me guffaw about the alarmist, wereallgonnadiesooooonunlessyougiveusallyourdosh prognostications from various factions, that unless humanity stops what it’s doing right now, man made (Why is it always our… Read More →

A few words on ‘Heartlandgate’ ‘fakegate’

Over the past 24 hours, the web pages at various climate related websites have been ablaze with ‘Big’ Somethingorotherbutitsverybadbadbadhonestguv funds the Heartland institute to the tune of six and a half million dollars.… Read More →