more social network random whinage

( in which I whine piteously )

pot, kettle, etc.

Compare and contrast.

one more for the needless redundancy category

"secure SSL connection"

Of course, it's been argued elsewhere that SSL is insecure in as much as it only solves a small class of problems, but let's not go there, m'kay?

history repeating

The odd thing about the Tory party member who made a joke about the recent deaths in Morecambe bay is that the exact same thing happened some years back when a Townsend Thorsen ferry capsized in the English Channel with a fairly significant loss of life. Not very long after the accident, a Tory MP made some comment in the House about some other MP "having his bow doors open", a reference to the cause of the accident. Weird that it seems to be a running thread in the party.

wow.

This is the absolute business: a cellphone-accessible version of the RIAA radar that works on UPC codes. Go magnetbox!

Of course, now what I want is a sufficiently programmable phone that I can plug a serial-port barcode scanner into it, blip an album in the shop, and have my phone check if it's RIAA or not. GNEE GNEE GNEE.