Just subscribed for BT's 'employee broadband' for a nominal £1 a year.

I wonder if I can get my money back...

According to a recent Pew Center poll, 25 percent of Republicans say they are reluctant to vote for a candidate who is Mormon.

I wish Republicans were reluctant to vote for a candidate who is a Moron. We'd have a lot less to worry about in the world today.

Reminds me of an absolute classic combined DRM + packaging screamer which happened to me.

About a year and a half ago I bought a copy of a Too Many DJs CD, still sealed in its plastic wrapping from the shop.

When I brought it home and unsealed the wrapping it turned out there was no CD in it. A sealed, empty jewel case (plus album art) had cost me £10. There was no chance of persuading them that I needed another CD. Where was my evidence.

This was an object lesson that, despite the insincere protests of the recording industry, no rights whatever to have licensed access to the album soundtrack was actually sold to me.

Instead, I had agreed to purchase a worthless piece of plastic, with the final insult that even THAT wasn't in the box.

That was the last time I paid for a CD - about a year and a half ago. I don't plan to buy one again.

This effect is fantastic, but you have to see some earlier footage of their experiments.

I grabbed some video of 'Smoke Signals' in 2006 at Faster than Sound near Ipswich, UK.

They hadn't anticipated the first message being 'It's raining in New York' containing an apostrophe which broke their SQL code.

The upshot - the coolest presentation of a MySQL Error Message ever - drifting across a smoke-field.

You can see the footage in the blog entry (I only got around to documenting it earlier this year).