The idea behind elected police chiefs is giving the public a say in their local police force. It's primarily a policy role, currently local forces and police authorities do set their own policies on spending, targets, practices, etc, so I see no problem with making this a democratic process. I'm a s...

I've recently been rewatching the BBC program Hustle, if they could implement some of the schemes used in that it'd be very cool

And I hope there are alarm systems and BEM systems to play around with, but that's just because I'm a saddo who can't get away from work

Come to Yorkshire instead

All the dates would involve me having to take two days off work so dunno if I could make it.

Mark wrote:here I am on the last working day of the year

God, it's alright for some!

Yay, I qualify!

I'm getting a train soon!

The Tyne and Wear metro is clearly the best:

I've only ever used it as a tourist, and from that angle I think the london underground is excellent, it's a fast and easy way of getting around. I'm sure it's different if you're using it during rush hour every day though

BADGES!

I wasn't a very big fan of Defcon... I don't have the patience for drawn out games so only really played quick mode, which really lacks depth compared to a 'long' game of Defcon. Multiwinia is a lot more up my street though, with it's fast paced action. Although I've not actually played it online ye...

But the International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board is reporting that the earth has been destroyed! http://qntm.org/?board These conflicting reports are confusing, has the earth been destroyed or not? How can we tell which reports are accurate? Usually I put my faith in the IEDAB, but I'm not ent...

I just got it on trying to return to the introversion index phpBB : Critical Error Error updating sessions table DEBUG MODE SQL Error : 1100 Table 'introversion_sessions' was not locked with LOCK TABLES UPDATE introversion_sessions SET session_time = 1221049695, session_page = 0 WHERE session_id = '...

martin wrote:Recently I've discovered queens of the stone age who I really like, even if almost everyone I know seems to loathe them

I enjoy QOTSA, gonna be seeing them at this years Leeds Festival