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Since we now know this: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has blamed a private contractor for losing the details of thousands of criminals, held on a computer memory stick. Ms Smith said the government had held the data securely but PA Consulting appeared to have downloaded it, contrary to the rules of its contract. ...it's clear they don't have the foggiest idea about security or managing personal information, giving us yet another reason to scrap the doomed ID card project which they have played a major part in driving.

Oh, look, what a surprise: it's not just for anti-terrorism: Local councils, health authorities and hundreds of other public bodies are to be given the power to access details of everyone's personal text, emails and internet use under Home Office proposals published yesterday. And, look, they still haven't learned about the dangers of centralised databases:

Reader Brian DeHamer needed a home office but lived in a crowded house, so instead he used extra space out behind his garage. He writes: When our first son was born, it quickly became clear that it...

Reader Jeremy shares his gorgeous and functional workspace in our Workspace Show and Tell Flickr photo group. He's rocking three monitors and two operating systems, and instead of buying a desk he...

When my messy home office got so cluttered I couldn't get anything done in it, it was time to take action—and I turned to Lifehacker for advice. Disorganization leads to lack of free time, lack...

One of the side effects of having so much stuff to help us get work done is dealing with the clutter it creates in our workspace. But just like you can defragment a hard drive—organize the bits...

Erin Doland, editor of the seriously-organized blog Unclutterer, guest-blogs at the Zen Habits site with a kind of beginner's guide to making the first steps toward becoming an "unclutterer" versus...