Monthly Archives: October 2008
The security week: Mosquitoes, advice, and Nirvana
A quotation: I was walking down the street with my friend and he said: “I hear music.” As though there’s any other way to take it in. I said: “You’re not special. That’s how I receive it too. I tried … Continue reading
Filed under News highlights, The security week
Mosquitoes, water and firetrucks
It’s mosquito season again. The estimable Security Installer editor Alan Hyder gives us the lowdown on a new report by Belgian experts into the medical effects of the ‘Mosquito’ teenager repelling device. We’ve reported on it in the past – … Continue reading
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More on the Louis Vuitton stores CCTV campaign
Following our photostory the other week, here’s another blog with photos of the Louis Vuitton CCTV campaign in New York. It looks quite fancy at night, doesn’t it?
Filed under Snaps about security
HD, Alan’s views, and risky travel
Security Installer Alan Hyder has put his opinion-generating suit on today, and gone swimming in the metaphorical sea of ideas that surround him, gathering security concepts and views like so many pretend fish in his journalistic thought-net. In other words, … Continue reading
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Robocop commutes
Following my previous post, Paul Trendall of Carlisle Security emailed me with this: Sticking with your Robocop theme …………….. < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/england/7684688.stm > They are, of course, our Travel Safe Officers. Any other security Robocops out there?
Filed under Security in the media
The mannequins are watching you
It’s a standard issue nightmare: you’re in a shop, doing a bit of mild shoplifting, when suddenly you notice that the store mannequins are staring at you. You freak out and run out of the premises, leaving your illegal non-purchases … Continue reading
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Enviro-friendly CCTV
There’s an Irish-Indian flavour to today’s news missive, for no reason other than that is what we felt like. And also where the news was. So here goes. An Irish company is distributing a wind and solar-powered CCTV system. This … Continue reading
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