My back hurts. A lot. It started hurting just before I left the office and is agonising when I move in certain directions, but is tolerable if I stand up without twisting round any or when I sit up straight (so this is the best posture I’ve ever had at a keyboard, believe me!). Finally, it has spurred me on to maee an appointment to see the Osteopath near Ilford station on Thursday morning. Hopefully that should help. Work was alternating between dull (data entry for the shiny new site we’re launching for Unilever really soon) and interesting (helping RobG learn some more C# on a learning exercise for our intranet, or possibly website), via different (helping write a press release about the shiny new site we recently launched at www.allieddomecq.com *very proud* ). Not a bad day, all in all. Once I got there. And I got to bounce some more about our fantastic comeback on Saturday (masl.to/?O6DE1205A) whilst chatting to one of the pretty straight boys at work. Trying to be a little more interesting than just whittering about my day, we had quite an interesting email into www.writetothem.com today. Once upon a time, at www.faxyourmp.com, we had a couple of users mail in to mention that their MPs were asking them to confirm their “unsigned message” in writing. Obviously, we thought this was a bit silly. Thankfully, the government is also a bit silly and, in 2000, passed the Electronics Communications Act (some readers might remember us at www.stand.org.uk campaigning to get the nasty bits removed; they ended up in the same year’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act). Section 7 of the ECA specified that: In any legal proceedings, an electronic signature incorporated into […] a particular electronic communication […] shall each be admissible in evidence in relation to any question as to the authenticity of the communication[…]. For the purposes of this section an electronic signature is so much of anything in electronic form as is […] logically associated with any electronic communication […]; and purports to be so […] associated for the purpose of being used in establishing the authenticity of the communication[…]. Kinda ok, but there’s not requirement that it be secure I can say that this blog entry is signed by just saying so and saying that the words “Signed by” make it so. So, when MPs were complaining about signatures, we thought we’d take the piss a little. Every message sent through FYMP (and WriteToThem.com) is accompanied by a hash of the user’s email address that is a legitimate digital signature. Oh yes, très secure. Other than that, I chatted with Des a little, emailed with James and left voicemail for Stephen. And watched the fascinating Anatomy for Beginners (masl.to/?U20F2105A) on Channel 4. Ok, that’s far too much writing. Bedtime. After another little smoke, maybe.