November 18, 2004

I have just completed transferring documents the Ranter refers to from my ex-college webspace to a commercial server. And updating all the links. BEER! Please report any brokens to me. Thanks.

David Blunkett has recently been quoted as saying that his proposed compulsory ID card and its database holding records on all citizens is just like a supermarket loyalty card. In fact, even nicer. Because those terrible supermarkets might hold details like these: “‘Store loyalty cards keep continuously updated details such as the size of a…

Edward at the Fistful of Euros delivers a (good) post on the sliding dollar/soaring euro issue and the wisdom or otherwise of a central bank intervention to prop up the buck, or at least manage decline. He, rightly I think, points up the inconsistency in US Treasury Secretary John Snow’s recent remarks – Snow said…