Through the £1000 mark

I'm blown away - sponsorship for the London to Paris bike ride has gone through the £1,000 mark (including our donation to cover costs). I finally managed to get back in the saddle yesterday after a fortnight limping around on a torn calf muscle, and had fabulous 17 mile ride down to Alresford. I spotted a stoat and both English and French partridge, which bodes well for the next season ;)

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Of Badgers & Buzzards

I'm (theoretically) taking a week off at the moment, ie only doing several hours of work a day, grumble. However, yesterday evening I sat in a hedgerow from around 8pm, and was soon joined by a buzzard. He flew off when a badger trundled by within a few feet of me, and a moment later I had the rare treat of the whole family coming out to play. That's the sort of sight that puts everything back into perspective.

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This is why I stopped living in cities

A fascinating and somewhat depressing article on how people are able to ignore one of the world's great classical musicians when he plays in a tube station. We've become completely immune to what goes on around us and are perfectly capable of ignoring beauty.

I woke up at 6am to the sound of the spring birdsong. Fantastic.

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London to Paris

I've taken the plunge and put my name down for the London to Paris bike ride in July. Those of you who know me will understand why I intend to get my shorts sponsored by 'CAUTION - WIDE LOAD'. Time to blow the cobwebs off my bicycle...

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The loyalty card police are on their way

The Telegraph is carrying a report on the new Europol powers to gather data from any source they need.

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WMDs? What WMDs?

The register is carrying a fascinating piece about weapons of mass destruction, but they're not in Iraq as you might expect...

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Now that's what I call a shopping list

The Identity & Passport Service has published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) for the ID Cards procurement process, which seems to include everything except the kitchen sink. More details here.

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Misappropriation and misuse of identity

Kim has posted up a disturbing but insightful tale of just how bad 'identity theft' - a concept I still believe does not exist - can be. It is far more accurately described here as 'identity rape'. Not a pleasant term, but a far more accurate description of the misappropriation of identity data from the victim's perspective.

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Why Keith Richards is my hero

You have to respect a man who views brain surgery in the way that Keith Richards does. As the late great Bill Hicks once said - 'when the bomb goes off, all that will be left is cockroaches and Keith'.

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