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• NewsTechnica: Facebook pressured to change from old style to old old style; Google adopts new "Do, however, be stupid" policy.

Today I went to Camden to buy long-sleeved T-shirts. I didn't find any I wanted, but I did get waylaid by Resurrection Records and spend £22 from the discount bin. (Two EBM compilations, an Eden EP, a Peter Murphy album and a Marc Almond album.)

I haven't written any NewsTechnica in a few days. I need to get back into the groove on this.

I have, however, prompted by ciphergoth's probings into the issue, been working on a RationalWiki article on cryonics. I was neutral-to-positive on the subject before researching the article; now I'm pretty much convinced that, although it's not physically impossible that some day we'll be able to freeze and revive people, the present-day cryonics industry is made of wishful bollocks and is about as effective at preserving people for future resurrection as the ancient Egyptians were at preserving the pharaohs for future resurrection. Do feel free to dive in.

(And if you want to argue cryonics here, please read the article and talk page and Paul's blog first.)

Saturday morning is the Open Rights Group election count, meaning Friday is a quiet night in. I'm an election shitworker, because I'm Australian so I'm not utterly confused by preferential voting systems. (I wrote the worked example.) Hopefully it will be very dull. I now have an ORG sticker on my laptop, courtesy katieastrophe, who I think has been charged with papering the world with them.

In the wake of the Buzz privacy car crash, Google says they've defaulted to not automatically telling your violent and abusive stalker where to find you and have put a Buzz settings tab into Gmail. Hasn't shown up in mine, but I killed Buzz as utterly much as I could. Can you see it in yours?

Work continues. Currently trying to build CruiseControl such as to work with our obscure proprietary version control system. I know it can be done because it's running on the old box. Bloody Java. I have taken Friday and Monday off work for the weekend of my birthday.