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Coercion v commonsense and context

Depressing announcement on the News just now from the Association of Chief Police Officers. They propose average speed cameras instead of traffic calming measures in built-up areas to deter people from "speeding". I put speeding in inverted commas because to my mind it is a fabricated crime, rather like jaywalking. Do these people live in the Dark Ages? Have they never noticed that people behave worse when herded, hounded and told what to do, and better when given responsibility and freedom to… Continue

Added by Martin Cassini on February 3, 2009 at 17:00 — No Comments

Activity obsession

Another thing I just realised about this Ning thing is that it records all your activity, however trivial, e.g. 'Martin edited his profile', or 'Martin added a blog post', and there doesn't seem to be a way of deleting such mind-numbing, space-wasting drivel. If anyone knows how to, please let me know. Ah, just found a delete option and the default settings, so OK now!

Added by Martin Cassini on February 2, 2009 at 22:30 — No Comments

A musing

I was having difficulty editing my FiT Roads website, so thought I'd give this Ning thing a try, which I happened across today. The amberlight name has a double meaning (we like a double entendre): it expresses my live-and-let-live traffic philosophy - amber expresses cooperative alert; and of course, light goes with ning, even if there's a dot in there. Still getting to grips with it, but so far, apart from an apparent inability to sort photos adequately, and the presence of ads, it seems… Continue

Added by Martin Cassini on February 2, 2009 at 22:10 — No Comments

Where did ...

... amberlight come from? That's the url I gave it when registering - amberlight.ning.com - but after posting the last entry I realise you don't see that. Call the last post a musing to self.

Added by Martin Cassini on February 2, 2009 at 22:00 — No Comments

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