Kevin Millican's Website

There's been a lot in the news lately about the possibility of people being cut off from the internet if they're involved in illegal file sharing. According to Which?, several innocent people have found themselves wrongly accused of this activity (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8129261.stm )

Yet more concern expressed by the music industry about illegal file downloads - apparently 7 million people (12%) of people in the UK have music files they didn't pay for :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8073068.stm

See (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8020039.stm)

Appears the government is considering making ISPs monitor all internet usage and it will cost £2 billion to set it up.
Unbelievable!

This has to be the silliest IT move by any government this century, as well as a ridiculous waste of money. Has it never occurred to anyone that if all such communications are monitored, criminal elements can easily respond in a number of ways? :-

* use public internet connections, or large private ones where the individual can easily hide

OK - so my site hasn't been updated for quite a while.

I've used Drupal to set up quite a few sites for other people, so I thought it was about time to rehash my own site.

If you're looking for my Psion and older Windows programs, you can find them by clicking on my 'Old Site' link to the left. You can return here at any time by clicking on my logo.