Not a habit to post email chain style letters, but, this one is actually important and will stop the government charging us the British tax payer even more to drive on the roads!

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THIS IS REAL AND IT IS A PROPER GOVERNMENT SITE!

The government’s proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.

The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver.

A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.

On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit* you can expect and additional fine with your monthly bill.

If you care about our freedoms and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10′s new website

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

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Interesting article on the BBC News site today title From iPhone to iGroan.

The iPhone sure looks nice and has some cool features, but, with us Brits having to wait until the end of the year for release and the fact it’s not 3G and no UTMS support I’m not sure how useful it’ll be, especially as Apple are pushing it as a web device.

That said Apple Inc. as they now are having dropped the “Computers” part of their name still have the fanboys to ensure it’s a success. The Sony Ericsson walkman range of phones do pretty much the same music playing job.

Ah well, each to their own.

Apple TV looks like a much better thing to have been announced on the back of MacWorld but as I don’t have much video on my PC I’ll be sticking with my Squeezebox for now. Noticed as well that Sony have announced a new Vaio TP1 which is very similar in it’s cylinder shape to Microsofts home hub both announced at CES this year.

Going to be an interesting year for digital homes I think.

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