Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Disc-Happy

I subscribe to the Channel 4 News daily email. It arrives each day about two hours before the programme comes on. Today they've come out with an introduction that simply has to be read in the voice of Chris Morris:

What's in a computer disc? Just a sheet of plastic with a hole in it,
or a politically explosive time bomb? Alas, for the government it is
the latter tonight.

The investigation is into the missing computer discs from revenue and
customs that have never been recovered. The report suggests a
disc-happy culture in government and a failure to comprehend the scale
of the citizen's interest in keeping his and her taxation details
private. Tonight the report and the very red faces.
Ah, "disc-happy culture". When will we have a czar against or war on disc-happiness?

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