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In the Guardian today: Electronic signatures scanned on to driving licences and passports differ so much from people’s usual signatures that they may not guard against fraud, it has been claimed. Well, that’s hardly surprising – instead of your normal signature, you usually have to squeeze it into a little box which is too . . . → Read More: Fraud fears regarding scanned signatures on documents One law for Wolfowitz, and another for the third world. What a pity the same standards don’t apply in both cases. It could be summer today – over 22°C and a completely blue sky. Lovely. Matthias Wandel likes building Lego (TM) machines. So he used Lego to test this pager when he was working on a project in 1998 at RIM (Research in Motion, who you probably have heard of as the makers of the Blackberry phone/communications device) and billed the Lego bricks to the . . . → Read More: Industrial Testing using Lego If you have any plans to visit the spectacular Grand Canyon Skywalk, you will probably be interested to read this article first – here’s the salient point: We walked in to get the tickets and met a very long line of people waiting to do the same. After 10 minutes of waiting, a “Question . . . → Read More: The Great Grand Canyon Skywalk Rip-off I am biased, but I do think Ruth’s latest quilting projects have been very good. So take a look at what’s going on on at sew2speak! Brian Boyko has written up his experience of using Vista as his sole operating system for 30 days – a detailed report on installing and using the operating system, and on which programs ran without problems under Vista. A good starting point if you are thinking of upgrading to Vista. He has also done . . . → Read More: 30 days using Windows Vista EMI and Apple have announced that iTunes will sell EMI’s albums at a higher quality (twice the encoding frequency) without any copy protection (DRM), for the same price as the other label’s albums with copy protection. Single tracks will be more expensive, but in my case I almost never buy individual tracks, so that . . . → Read More: EMI / Apple remove the DRM locks |
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