Clueless nitwit spam from rubbish Marketing Quotes
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Look at this disgraceful spam from something called Marketing Quotes
William Heath’s blog
Archive for August, 2009
Let’s bury the hatchet with Orange
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Peace breaks out with Orange. What tipped the balance was their late but pretty comprehensive response to my DPA subject access request.
It excludes location data, but has all the contractual and customer-service data for my real account, and also the phoney account impersonated in my name. It must be some 800 pages. The phoney [...]
This is a metaphor for something…
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Oops. Twitter’s down. That’s worth a quick Tweet. D’oh!
[eight seconds later] I wonder what the Twitterverse has to say about it? D’oh! D’oh!
Does the state face mortal threats? or politically awkward horsefly bites?
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
I’ve been thinking more about the “heart of darkness” perception of the British state. To Phil Shiner’s analysis of torture I’d add
the £25m worth of new steel security bollards for Whitehall, faced with Portland stone, and the steel barriers around Parliament
database state systems like NHS secondary uses, ContactPoint, IMP, the benighted ID System, e-Borders, DWP [...]
Phil Shiner, faith and the British state
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Remarkable Independent profile of campaigning lawyer Phil Shiner whose firm worked on the Baha Mousa case:
“At the heart of the British nation is still that horrible, exploitative, violent, colonial past. We’ve never got rid of it.”
I think he’s spot on. I still recall having to go and lie down for two hours after the lunchtime [...]
