Murder suspect’s Google searches spotlighted in trial

Horrible! From Guardian Technology:

“Prosecutors claim a Mac specialist on trial in connection with the killing of his wife did a Google search for the words: “neck snap break” and “hold” before she was killed. Robert Petrick, who is defending himself in Durham, NC, cross examined a computer forensics expert this week. The expert testified about digital footprints he said the state discovered on several hard drives in Petrick’s home,” reports TechWeb.

“Prosecutors claimed that Petrick, who stands out in his Christian North Carolina community as a self-professed Pagan, left behind a trail of digital evidence including a visit to a site called bloodfest666. Investigators are also focusing e-mails to women they said Petrick was having affairs with and a download of a document entitled ’22 ways to kill a man with your bare hands’.”

Note: “a lawyer standing by for Petrick said he believes the evidence was all culled from the hard drives and he has no information that Google participated in the investigation.”

Rick’s Blog

Rick Green is blogging again after a brief hiatus, and it’s well worth heading over there. He doesn’t just focus on one issue, but a whole range of them – almost all of which are new to me. It’s a real eye opener.

Like this one: he’s reading the whole of the 1960 edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica – only the ‘F’ volume is missing. Great stuff!

Anyway, he’s in the process of making some changes to the layout of his site, trying to make it more personal. Why not head over there and let him know what you make of it all?

‘Good Stuff’

I have started a new category, called Good Stuff.

It’s basically just a tag I can apply to longer posts that I take a bit longer over than normal. I’m going to try and do one a week from now on.

The problem with MyPimp, Bookmarking update

Have started to use MyPimp as I need a calendar and it makes sense to have one online. The contacts bit might be useful too.

However, there is a big problem with it at the moment and that is that it only supports american date formats, i.e. today on MyPimp is 11/5/05, wheras my brain thinks it is 5/11/05. I didn’t think this would be that much of an issue, but it genuinely is very annoying and I can’t see myself using it until that is sorted.

On the bookmarking front, there’s just no way I can do it. I know I only set myself the challenge to record my site visits for one weekend, but I am already bored. It just ain’t for me…