Olympic Round up

With phase one of the Olympics over here’s a bit of a round up of the nonsense that’s being going on. No much by way of good news for the official sponsors over at Just Drinks Beer drinkers and pubs all over seem to be unhappy with the brand police judging by Real ale up north (And let’s not mention the GBBF being shunted from Earls Court to the smaller venue at Olympia for some sporting thing or other). Even the mainstream media is reporting how bad the games have been for small businesses of course our glorious leaders still … Continue reading

Wondering around outside the olympics

With surveillance Wenlock to accompany us we headed to the depths of Stratford for a little stroll and to look for any spill over effect from the olympics and to see how well the brand enforcement was working. So if you’re in a hurry the summary is: – there’s very little spill over into the local area – the olympic brand enforcement is working very well indeed. Now before I go any further let me say that the crowds around Stratford are pretty close to my idea of hell, but that the volunteers I spoke to were awesome (mainly I … Continue reading

Extreme porn update

Via Katabasis, it seems what I said ages ago was right – want to get someone in trouble send them a “banned” pick then tip off the police, the offence is possession so how you got it or even if you looked at it doesn’t matter. Mind I love the defence that the e-mail server etc. belong to the company (in the case microsoft) so as you don’t own the mails but merely have a license to access them are you in fact in possession. “DS Callahan was recalled to the witness box. The main point of contention involved the … Continue reading