Posts by Russell Brown

ICO makes mincemeat of nativity data protection piffle

Never mind the grandparents...

...what about boy/girlfriends when teenagers?

DARPA fashions miracle robotic attachment from balloon, coffee

That's all very well but

when will it be able to make a cup of tea?

ROBOT KILL-CHOPPER GOES ROGUE above Washington DC!

Shurely...

...this should have a RoTM tag?

Brown creates one UK.gov website to rule them all

Only technically

Most of us would accept it being sent, in which ever way you wish to send it.

China seals town after plague deaths

@Thomas18

I think it CAN kill within a day of displaying symptoms. More usually its 2-3 days. Hooray, right?

No, actually.

IIRC there is a prodrome of a few days with mild flu-like symptoms before you get the pneumonia. You are still infectious even though you're walking around saying to your family and co-workers "It's just a cold, really, stop making a fuss".

Skiving Aussie fingered on Facebook

Lucky he's not been sacked

I would imagine his contract has something to say about skiving.

Hawaiian anti-LHC lawsuit thrown out

Brilliant prose

Wot Greg said. The rest of the article is a scintillating morass of wonderment, went well with coffee cake.

Paris - cos its Wednesday