Cambridge station, July 1, 2005. In the end, they’ll come round to the idea of installing Linux. To save embarrassment in the meantime, a kind friend has offered to make some nice embroidered covers for the screens.
Daily Archives: July 2, 2005
Reflective geeks
Mark Shuttleworth and a colleague at the Edubuntu Summit in London on July 1. Great event. Great project.
Her majesty’s iPod
ID cards — the biggest fallacy
One of the most sinister arguments used by proponents of the ID Card bill (and other measures proposed by security freaks) is the canard that “if you’ve got nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear”. There’s a lovely piece by Muriel Gray in today’s Guardian which shows how wrong this cant can be. Sometimes, innocent people have very good reasons for wanting to maintain absolute privacy.