I spent an hour on Sunday shredding all the bits of paper with any personal data on. My wife seems convinced that if it has your name and address on (all junk mail) or any part of a card number (receipts) it must be shredded - that’s what the banks recommend apparently. I keep telling her my name and address is in the phone book (it isn’t as we’re X directory from when I used to work at home) - am I supposed to shred all those too?

I’m just worried my shredder isn’t cross cut so someone (a very patient someone) could glue it all back together (Malcolm did it in an episode of spooks - not actually my shredding you understand).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/21/ndarling521.xml

Anyway I don’t need to worry any more - the government has helpfully passed on my name, address, NI number, bank details and who knows what else to some random address. There should be a law against it - oh, I think there is. Can anyone tell me how many data protection act rules they have broken and what redress I’m entitled to?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7097646.stm

So the mystery of Buster Crabb is solved? I think we guessed his fate was something like that. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t planting a mine though. It would have been a outrageous thing to do and anyway my friend’s father worked for “the government” and he claims to have supplied equipment to sample a ships hull to “certain people” that very week. I understand the ship carrying Khrushchev had an especially advanced hull that our navy was interested in.

The hardware and software I have worked on over the years as gone to some interesting places and I like to ponder on how it has been used and take note if it is