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27 Mar · Mon 2006

My driving licence? Certainly officer; which one would you like?


Apparently ministers have today approved plans for a standardised European driving licence, in credit-card format and probably with a chip. We already have a credit-card sized driving licence in the UK, but in a classic compromise it is optional. We may still choose to have just a paper licence (with a signature but no photograph), and if we opt for the credit-card format, we have to have (and be able to present when appropriate) the paper one as well. I wonder if the advent of a standard EU licence will mean that we are expected to carry one, two or three of the possible credential formats. It doesn't take much to conclude, either, that the EU driving licence would be included as a 'designated document' under the ID Cards bill... in other words, that applying for one would result in compulsory registration in the UK Nationla Identity Register.
Posted by racingsnake @ 04:32 PM GMT+00:00

I hate generalisations. All of them.


There's a bit of a brush-fire in the blogosphere, it seems, over the announced slippage of Microsoft Vista. Shelley Powers' Burningbird blog captures the tone of it all with characteristic wit and simplicity. OK, so Robert Scoble's nose was put out of joint some while back by an article in the Register... but the views he expresses as a result are so patently absurd that one has to wonder what purpose they serve. Though according to POSIWID the answer to that is simple: it's to make him look absurd. Here's an article from the Register which should, by Scoble's analysis, be given no credence at all. It's based on a single source, and written by an author who won't even sign it with anything more than a URL. Disgraceful. William, if you're reading this, I hope you feel suitably chastised ;^)
Posted by racingsnake @ 11:39 AM GMT+00:00 [ Comments [2] ]
 
 
 
 
 
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