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After the recent cock-up by HMRC I find myself a bit more hopeful for the future.

Hopefully the politicians will start asking themselves if it really is such a good idea to collect information in huge databases. Should we really have ID cards? Is it a good idea to have a huge database with details of every child in the country?

I’m still wondering why it’s possible to “steal someone’s identity” by knowing only what HMRC knows about a parent that receives child support…

I was getting too many reports of problems on using epilicious together with del.icio.us. What finally did it was Gnome bug #491977. The patch provided was applied in the 2.20 tree. In the current development tree I simply removed support for del.icio.us alltogether. It’s just not worth the hassle!

It’s just somewhat unfortunate that the name of the plugin doesn’t fit that well anymore.