IT Crowd was Channel 4, and "The Internet is coming" both kept up the quality and gave the series a fitting end.

I did work briefly at a place where the "IT Department" would generate passwords every month and leave them in an envelope on your desk. You couldn't change them and they were long random strings, so you kept the paper rather than try to remember them. Of course the director who imposed the rule had his own password which was shorter, simpler, and never changed.

Armed police have been in London airports long before 2001.

I thought it was a bit of a damp squid.

I was at a security meeting last year where it was seriously suggested that we make correcthorsebatterystaple a default password because it was unguessable.

Not sure whether it's the law nationwide but in many places you're only supposed to use your horn to alert other drivers of your presence.

Haven't really noticed - but then again western Washington, Seattle in particular, has always had drivers who will wait until they're 150% sure the light is green. You can tell if someone is out of state because they're the only ones honking their horn.

Do any of the three letter organizations really want secure systems? Or just ones that look secure but really have enough holes so that they can monitor the use?

Aren't they showing the O J Simpson one? And the Walter Presents was a less specific comment to the effect of that there's plenty of interesting TV throughout the world and restricting a channel to just the output of its home country seems a waste.

Almost everyone I've known who has been fired or laid off has been walked to the door straight after being told - possibly there was a side trip to pick up anything personal - and the idea that they'd be training their replacement seems absurd. The only time I can see it working is when someone leaves a company for external reasons, such as changing location.

It is silly, but it's also the line that many of the US card issuers are saying publicly - that it's a bonus because it's not yet another PIN to remember.

I think the comment means that the BBC buys in some overseas programming, rather than "recycles". Personally I like to see some foreign TV, the Walter Presents collection is quite interesting.

I'm guessing that once the story is widely known there'll be calls to arrest him, even though he's using publicly available data and equipment and not doing anything wrong.

There's plenty of people in the UK selling bigger shoes [a joke which only works if you read it aloud].