Total Reach

Now lets be honest in the world we live in today, with all the emphasis of cutting costs trying to lower the debt that our country is in this is a good place to start.  Scrapping the ID scheme means the on going development cost will be saving the government millions of pounds.

Although it will be saving money is it helping us however, I know that people were concerned about privacy issues and the fact someone’s whole identity was on one card but I myself was looking forward to these cards.  My reasons are I don’t hold a drivers licence or a passport and don’t think I will any time soon.  I hold a Citizen Card however you can guarantee that no matter where we go I’ve got to kick up a fuss to how old I am.  The ID cards for me would solve this issue.

The other annoyance about them scrapping the scheme is the fact the people that already have the cards will not be getting a refund.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jun/09/id-cards-damian-green

A lot of mates were telling me not to bother with this movie as they had saw it in the cinema and it wasn’t really up to much.  Some even went onto say that some scenes just didn’t need to be in there.

However I bit the bullet with the film being on bluray for £6.  I was pleasantly surprised with the movie as I wasn’t expecting much from it.  I felt that the movie had the right balance of action and storyline.  You could even read further into the story line and consider that in the future gaming could become similar to what was in this movie.

I would recommend seeing this film especially at such a low price.  I’m glad it is part of my collection

According to the Washington Post there has been an increase in spyware that has been able to infect Macs and cause some concern.  While reading this article I started to think about the operating systems them selves and the fact that as a base both Linux and Mac are the same sort of operating system as they are both based on Unix.

Reading the article the conclusion is that you theory you shouldn’t be worried about spyware and viruses for your Mac just yet because there are so few out there it doesn’t warrant the expense of running an anti-virus.  Now this seems a bit odd however thinking about how Linux works as I haven’t had any experience of a Mac  I could understand it.  Unlike Microsoft’s operating system Windows.  Linux does not seem to be able to suffer drive by downloads, or infections of that nature as everything that is downloaded or copied to the machine never has the ability to execute on your system straight off the bat.

What does that mean?

It means that yes the infectious file could be downloaded and be store on your system somewhere but unlike windows it would not be able to run without you setting it be able to run and install.

I know there will become a time where users of Macs and Linux will have to think about security a little more however for the time being I do believe both users are safe for the time being as long as they are only installing programs that they trust.  The increase in spyware though for the Mac format does show that Mac is growing against Windows for people to take the time to write the spyware for the alternative operating system.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/05/AR2010060500680.html

I thought I’d would comment on something a little less serious and according to a new study done by Peter Rogers from Bristol University Coffee holds no benefits to you in the morning.  Peter Rogers said:

Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee, or other caffeine-containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal.

The more a came to think about it the more sense it made.  I know for me personally the longest time I go without a caffeine containing drink is when I sleep so by the time I have woken up if I have had the full 8 hours surely I’ll be going through a withdrawal period.

So as an experiment for the next week starting today as I haven’t had anything to drink yet I will be trying to avoid caffeine drinks and see whether I actually feel better.