IT'S A CRIME! (OR A MYSTERY...)For crime & thriller fiction (mainly UK); new & emerging authors; authors who deserve more attention; crime on screen; literary festivals; author & other events; the odd amusing thing; the odd rant and some politics creeping through.More on Identity Theft plus Data Harvesting (data on all of us...)- September 12, 2008 A programme on BBC3 caught my eye last night and I'm glad it did. I've not been aware of this BBC3 series called Mischief before, but it's now on series 3 apparently. Having had my card details stolen more than once and possibly my ID (earlier this year), I was keen to watch the episode entitled "Your Identity for Sale". I wanted to know what information was in the general public domain about risks. If you missed it, you can watch it here on BBC iplayer. And I really do recommend that.http://itsacrime.typepad.com/its_a_crime_or_a_mystery/2008/09/more-on-identity-theft-plus-... This Septic Isle by Mike Barfield: one to watch- September 6, 2008 My humour was percolated earlier today when reading an extract in the Daily Mail from Mike Barfield's This Septic Isle. Barfield, a cartoonist for Private Eye magazine in the UK has sought to re-define some words in the English dictionary for our modern British world and our language in This Septic Isle. (See it at Amazon, at that link.) I say "some words" because at 288 pages he's not re-defining the whole of the English language, just the pertinent words. And boy, is it fun! I want..http://itsacrime.typepad.com/its_a_crime_or_a_mystery/2008/09/this-septic-isle-by-mike-bar... |