A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! In the news recently there’s been a lot of stuff about security problems on airline flights. Several flights have been diverted and / or delayed, [...]

This is yet another censorship move to watch. Once again, the threat of terrorism is being used as an excuse to attempt to justify spying and censoring people’s communications whether that communication is by phone, email, snail mail, blog or whatever.
This is also yet another reason for everyone to use encryption and privacy tools [...]

I have just completed and posted a new edition of Lastdays Watch titled “ Yet Another Step”
In addition, Edition 3 of the freenet mirror of Lastdays Watch will be inserted tonight. The freenet URL is:
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Note: in order for the [...]

Astronomers Say Pluto Is Not a Planet Not only is this rediculous, but it shows that a heck of a lot of money is being wasted. I’m very much in favor of research and astronomy has an important place in science, but changing the definition of what is or is not a planet? That’s just [...]

Reading this, I cannot help but think of the “Cold Fusion” farse of a few years ago. Like the perpetrators of that, I think somebody involved with this is going to eat their words [...]

It’s bad enough that there are so many things that we have to be concerened about when it comes to privacy, but these Event Data Recorders that are being put into cars can easily be considered too much.
They have good and bad sides. They can be used to find out the truth of what [...]

If your ISP is Qwest Communications, I would very strongly recommend that you invest some time learning about tools and practices for maintaining online privacy and start using them immediately. A good [...]

No sign Iran will accept atomic offer (Reuters) Reuters - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday Iran would press ahead with its pursuit of nuclear energy, indicating it will not heed a U.N. demand it stop enriching uranium or face possible sanctions.
Of course Iran is not [...]

Smoking cuts for classic cartoons after complaint (Reuters) Reuters - Turner Broadcasting is scouring more than 1,500 classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including old favourites Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, to edit out scenes that glamorise smoking.

This is rediculous. Those old cartoons are classics. Editing them is stupid and offensive. I would [...]

I can’t help but wonder why this old data is being re-classified. The cold war has been over for years now and the numbers of missiles that existed back then are certainly not relevant to anything today except as purely historical information.
Frankly, I have a problem with this because this information has not only [...]