House arrest?

Well, then. So when you're told by the law lords, that indefinite detention without trial of foreigners is illegal, what is your reaction?

Apparantly, it's to announce new legislation to allow house arrest, also without trial.

Is it just me, or has the home secretary completely missed the point? It wasn't the 'locking them up' bit that was the problem. By all means, if they've been naughty, put 'em in prison. It was the 'without a trial' bit that was the real problem.

And if the home secretary decided he doesn't like you, then ... well that's it really. If we wanted security, if we were to just shoot everyone on the MI5 suspect list, then that'd probably work. Oh, yeah, so you might get a few innocents, but our security would be improved. The problem is, there's some lines that should not be crossed. Powers of the government to lock people up indefinitely, without a trial or evidence is one of them.

You don't put your money in a fire, to stop people nicking it.

(And sadly, this isn't a white rabbit post.)

Today

Well, it was an interesting journey to work. For those that know, I tend to distort spacetime to make my workplace co-locate with my bedroom. It's a shorter walk that way. But I got distracted over breakfast by a rabbit sitting on my worktop. And moving. Which was a little strange, since it was dead.

Never mind, I'll catch it later, and it'll make a rather marvellous stew.

What the hell?

OK, so who the hell let a rhino into the server room.
I mean, the kittens were bad enough, chewing on the network cables, but the rhino is just making a mess of the place. I mean leaving aside the piles of poo, he can't even type! I swear, this company is just going down hill.

I mean, recruitment standards were starting to slip when they started hiring parakeets, but at least they can, ya'know, peck the keyboards.

I'm also a little curious, because I'd swear he was too big to fit between the racks.

Oh and now he's got an LTO tape impaled on his horn.
'scuse me, I'm going to have to go get that back. Not too much a problem, because my collegue can lasso him with his sheesha.