Browsing my out-law’s bookshelves i happend on this fun book, published in 1982 by Readers Digest ‘The Inventions That Changed The World’.
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As of tomorrow US immigration will fingerprint and photograph all UK visitors. So this is how Bush rewards countries who are ‘with him’. I somehow doubt this action would have prevented 9/11 or helped in the subsequent investigation, but I am sure it’s going to upset a lot of otherwise moderate people. “I understand HOW: but I do not understand WHY.”

Updated: UK reciprocates

Back from the cracking XMLOpen conference - given the quality of the speakers and delegates it was more like a summit or symposium.
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BikeBiz have a nice roundup on the phenomena of picking Kryponite locks using only a Bic pen. It seems that Kryptonite have been slow to react, and to be as fair as possible to them they’re not alone it seems to be a generic weakness in the round key lock. Expect to see bic pens sticking out of the front of vending machines and gym lockers for the foreseeable future :-(

John Naughton in today’s observer draws the parallel between Microsoft’s and Kryptonite’s woes, oh for ‘Kryptonite Update’ :-) So fingers crossed i can exchange my Kryptonite lock for free in the UK as they’ve just announced in the US. Either way i’ll keep you posted!

The Programme for next month’s W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities has been announced and i’m the first victim presenting Publishing Web Service Policies on behalf of BT. Judging from the other papers it should be … fun!

Sam Gentle gives the WS-* sceptics a spelling lesson.
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ZipDecode is very nice interactive zipcode visualiser. I’d like something similar for UK Postcodes ..

After the meeting Hao was kind enough to give me a lift to Niagara Falls.
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And so to the Toronto International Film Festival to see Da si gein (Breaking News).
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Another W3C WSD WG face-to-face meeting and another revolving restaurant, this time up the CN Tower courtesy of Arthur and the groovy IBM Canada Toronto Software lab.
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