Posts by Alastair Rae

Glacier boffins rubbish IPCC apocalypse claims

Glaciergate

The 2035 disappearing glaciers claim was one of those "OMG this stuff is serious!" moments that nearly had me convinced. And when an Indian government report queried it, the head of the IPCC called them "climate change deniers and school boy science". Turns out the boot was on the other foot. More science and less alarmism would be nice but nobody trusts anybugger anymore, I expect to be disappointed.

Inmate-frying microwave pain blaster turret installed in US jail

Welcome to the 21st Century

Remote controlled pain inflicting devices in the ceiling? OMG we're in the scary future. All they need to do now is replace the guards with AI.

US unveils planet-hugging London embassy

flat roof

Complete with flat roof for Saigon-style helicopter evacuations.

Twitter bomb threat joke man faces possible jail sentence

Argh

I thought you Brits were famous for your sense of humour and your common sense. When did you lose them?

Lords cut Irish travel from e-Borders

NI is smaller than you think

I guess what little Englanders don't realise is how many people work and shop across the NI border. The peace in NI is fragile enough without making people show a passport when they want to drive to the next town which just happens to be across the border.

Junk email volumes hit high

MessageLabs not so impressive

We have MessageLabs spam filtering and they seem to have taken their eye off the ball recently. I've started getting lots of viagra-type emails of late. Most are marked "white-listed" because the spammer has spoofed their from address to be mine. Seems like a pretty basic mistake to me.