I told you there was a Year of the Sheep
For the benefit of Tim, the animals of the Chinese Zodiac–
RAT, OX, TIGER, RABBIT, DRAGON, SNAKE, HORSE, SHEEP, MONKEY, ROOSTER, DOG, PIG.
Daily archives: July 27, 2004
HM Department of Vague Paranoia
preparingforemergencies.co.uk, which is most definitely not preparingforemergencies.gov.uk, though the government couldn’t tell the difference and got irate.
This works
Haloscan trackback has now been added to this blog.
Thanks to Stephen for the heads up.
Testing
Hmmm. Blogger is a pain in the arse when it comes to pinging the trackback system. I had to read the Movable Type explanation of trackbacks to learn how it can be done, and there’s no explanation of how I ping manually.
This links to the trackback URL of my post from earlier about speed limits. I’m going to see what happens when I click on it. That didn’t work.
It looks like people with MT can leave trackback info for my Blogger submitted posts, but I can’t return the favour.
There has to be a way……
Tracking
Backblog does trackbacks now. I’ve been wanting a way to do those for a while. I’ve just got to fight with the code a bit to implement it.
Put your foot down
George Monbiot has an idea of how to make it impossible to break the speed limit by utilising the black boxes needed to police congestion charges. It would probably cut road deaths, but I don’t believe it would be the cure all he imagines.
I always stick to the speed limit in 30 and 40 mph zones, but sometimes my mind wanders. Just imagine if drivers didn’t even have to concentrate on keeping to a certain speed. Knowing the machine was doing it for them, they’d start checking out the shop windows and other cars and completely fail to spot the person stepping out in front of them. And you’d still get the idiots who insisted on pushing the maximum speed allowed even when common sense dictated they should be doing less. The scheme could displace pedestrian deaths from places where speed kills to ones where distraction kills.