Basic Policing

A police car with flashing lights and siren or [more effectivley] helicopter is despatched, causing alarm and arousing interest in the neighbourhood and an urge for them to take the dog for [another] walk.  Before you know it it seems that the whole neighbourhood is out in the street without their dogs but [unusually] grouped together talking and looking at the dog walker [as if in an ideal neighbourhood]. 

Little does the dog walker know, the majority of the congregation are in fact plain clothed police officers, not attending to a shout, but engaged in a basic police training exercise.  The workings of which are simple.  Cause alarm to a neighbourhood and identify those that respond with stop and search privilages.  The police know they are inoccent of the suspect crime but they can practice basic policing with relative ease in the real world.

sniffing around our network

I have a home office network running Debian GNU/Linux on all machines.  Using Ettercap and Wireshark I have been able to snif packets between my girlfriends computer and the router as she browsed the internet.

Jehovah's Witnesses

I have had my first discussion with two Jehovah's Witnesses today.

It was very interesting as I was informed that the eye is a miracle of engineering in that like a camera it has an auto focus function that requires no thought by the user and if like a camera it where left lieing around, to the observer it would seem that a creator had engineered it.

I commented that I could not believe in nor not believe in a creator as the link between man and ape was missing although evolution is a strong contender.

We agreed to disagree on different views and that they would put a leaflet through the door when passing and I would talk to other Jehovah's Witnesses.