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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. A selection of comments from the BBC who are running a vox pop on ID cards on their web site today;
"I give 100% support to ID cards as it would cut down on crime and illegal immigration. Also all the information will be on a single card which [...]

Before bed each evening Alexander enjoys some traditional warm milk and, slightly more unconventionally, a few crackers.
More importantly I’ve just bought a new lens which is well suited to taking portraits. This is the first of what may be a long and illustrious line. If you’re really lucky I may even include other subjects.

I’ve been taking a photography course at evening school recently. This morning I was out at Dee Why beach learning a few practical lessons. I put some of them to use this afternoon with a couple of shots at Balmoral beach.
This shot is taken at the fish shop whilst we were waiting for our lunch [...]

Time for an experiment. Here is my first book review on this blog. This isn’t a critique, more a set of notes to remember what I got from the book and which bits I liked.
I actually finished Sebastian Faulk’s Birdsong a couple of weeks ago but that time hasn’t dimmed it’s impact.
It’s strength, I [...]

I couldn’t let this article on BoingBoing pass without a comment or two. It’s an excerpt from a new book called "The Worlds Worst" about the breatharian life style, claiming that it’s the world’s worst diet. I heartily concur, if not because of what it appears to do to your brain.
As some of you may [...]

Alex is moving up in the world. Here’s a picture of him relaxing in his newly installed bed.
Of course he’s also confused because we haven’t taken the cot down. So now he doesn’t know where to snooze and just thinks that this is a new play couch.

It doesn’t come often, so when it does we must perform the ritual dance of celebration; England beat Australia in a game of cricket.
The predictable retort from the king of sledging at work was "well it’s not proper cricket is it". Who cares, we still won. I managed to be a dedicated fan and [...]

This one’s for Outraged of Poynings.
We’ve been trying to teach JFGP some tricks. So far he’s pretty good at counting from one to ten and saying "Daddy’s the king" but this one is his piece de resistance.
Although I’d say that it needs a little more work until it rivals the quality of [...]

The abuse continues. According to Neil Gaiman some people in Las Vegas, one of whom is a famous magician have called their new born daugther "Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette" Poor kid.

"The general movement in all of this is away from the individual’s ownership of his identity, towards a centralization of identity-validation. Away from a world in which individual persons say who they are, towards a world in which the state says to the individual: we know who you are."