I have been busy this morning with getting some work done. No programming, but some hardware things, and some cleaning up. Stuff got thrown out, and I want to get more thrown out today. We will see how that goes. Not entirely confident of getting much disposed of but we will see.

Intersting news on the security of the airline IT systems. The Sydney Morning Herald and others are reporting on a man who added passengers to flights to melbourne after they had landed for the frequent flyer points. Interesting fraud mechanism. What is even more interesting is that none of the airlines agree on how much the fraud was worth. One airline placed a value of $12,000 on a flight that on average costs $2000. Then another airline places the value at the cost of the in-flight meals. A bit of a difference there.

A few years back when I was in New Zealand, I managed to actually touch an Enigma machine. There is now a rairly good Enigma Emulator available on the net. Not bad. The SMH also has a story on GoogleEarth and what is possible with it.

News.Com.Au is reporting that the Customs Service have finally agreed to keep the old computer system going for the indefinite future. We will see how this improves the warves over the next few days and weeks.