I was invited through SourceForge to take part in a study of Microfoundations and dynamics of online interactions and behavior. They repeated traditional experiments, but online. Eg. they grouped people into pairs and said that one of you gives an amount between \$0 and \$10, and the other one receives …

I've just released Imprimatur-021. The main change is that the <session> element has been removed. There's now just one session for the whole test script. The reason is that I felt that session information didn't fit with the hierarchy of XML. At the moment there isn't a way to start …

Whenever I read John Wyndham, I'm struck by how prescient his thoughts are. Here he is talking about what we'd now call disruptive technologies:

The discoverer and inventor are the bane of business. A little sand in the works is comparatively a mere nothing - you just replace the damaged parts …

The other day we were having dinner, and I asserted that Bradley Manning was being tortured. Scepticism was evident in some quarters. One problem is that we don't know for sure how he's being treated. The Guardian reports that on Monday 11th April 2011:

[Juan] Mendez, the UN special rapporteur …

Call me a late adopter, but I thought I'd give Google's Webmaster Tools a go. I pointed it at MtrHub and it found a bug. It found that even if you'd set a meter to be public, you still couldn't see individual reads without being logged in. It found it …

We were discussing the UK-US extradition treaty, and how it's unfair because it's not reciprocal. Then the question came up of the standard of proof that's required to extradite someone from the UK to the US. I claimed it was very low, but had no evidence to back it up …

Have done already. Did it about a month ago, when my previous bill arrived with its half a tree of promotional guff. That's how I know they are dragging their heels!

Tell you what, if you write one I'll publish it here.

I recently asked Wiltshire County Council:

Hi, I've just received my council tax bill, and I wondered if there was a paperless billing option? Eg. the bill could be emailed out, and the accompanying booklet could be online.

Here's their reply:

RE: Online council tax billing and booklets

Currently Wiltshire …

In the recent war in Libya I think we've done the right thing so far. It's been legal, and I agree with resolution 1973. David Cameron is now talking about arming the rebels. I don't think this would be legal, as it would contravene UN resolution 1970, the arms embargo …