For some reason I have been waking up a bit earlier than normal for the last few days. Not sure why that is… It would be nice to get more sleep, but I can cope. I guess it is because the sun has been rising earlier as we reach the equinox in the next couple of days. [Christmas was supposed to be on the Equinox on the 21st or 22nd, but someone made a mistake with the math which is why it is on 25th December today]

Australian IT is reporting that Federal Authorities have told Carl Scully that SMS messages used to induce riots at Cronulla can be traced. Legally a warrant, or probably a series of them, would be needed in order to trace the SMS as it went from person to person to find the source, and then trace it as it went back out. This is of course assuming that records exist of SMS messages once they are sent. From what I have heard they are kept at least a week in case of billing enquiries. And the headers saying where the SMS was sent from and to is kept longer – although access to all this information is tightly controlled.

The Register is reporting that up to 40 drunken santas have terrorised Auckland with their antics. Sounds like the plot to a sequel to ‘Bad Santa’. Australian newspapers are also reporting that the National Geographic show which found the Japanese sub from WWII just found a sandbar in the shape of a sub. Not quite what they were looking for….