<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Larry Seltzer</b> <<a href="mailto:Larry@larryseltzer.com">Larry@larryseltzer.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">>>The UK Gov seems to be fascinated with the idea of huge databases on<br>computers, much the same way a rabbit is fascinated by a stoat.
<br><br>I'm sure I'm not the only non-Brit asking myself "WTF is a stoat?"<br><br>c/o <a href="http://Dictionary.com">Dictionary.com</a> (<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stoat">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stoat
</a>): "the<br>ermine, Mustela erminea, esp. when in brown summer pelage."<br><br>Larry Seltzer<br>eWEEK.com Security Center Editor<br><a href="http://security.eweek.com/">http://security.eweek.com/</a><br><a href="http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/">
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/</a><br>Contributing Editor, PC Magazine<br><a href="mailto:larryseltzer@ziffdavis.com">larryseltzer@ziffdavis.com</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I think a stoat is like a ferret or some such creature.