Thoughts and wanderings around the internet, e-government and geekdom.
Police call for remote button to stop cars. The idea of the police being able to stop cars at will is a good one, in my utopian ideal of most people not offending, and therefore not worrying about this. But as a hacker, I know I could buy a piece of kit within weeks that would allow me to stop your car (illegally) whenever I wanted. That isn’t so good.
Web Page Development: Best Practices from Apple. There’s some useful stuff there.
Newham has pulled out of trials of OSS desktop software. It makes sense, given the scale of the work required, but isn’t great news for those of us who’d like to see some sort of trial go ahead.
You can read Tom Peters’ Slides online. Nice idea, as you are unlikely to be able to understand the slides without going to a seminar and having the slides available might make you more likely to attend a seminar.
Apparently the Royal Mail is offering a service that lets you fill in tax returns online. Somewhat bizarre, but worth checking out, given that the IR’s one doesn’t work for me at present.
Introducing PCLinuxOS 2K4 reviews a nice-looking Linux-on-a-CD distro. One for BitTorrent, I think.
High-flying camera club showcases some kite photographers. Nice hobby if you have the time.
O’Reilly XForms Essentials on the web. Worth understanding these things for LAWs, among others.
Tantek has a pile of good ideas for making your blog more semantic which include including what to do with anchors to show you how tricky it can be to get it right. If he’s right!