Well it seems the Pirate Party in now registered with the electoral commission in the UK which opens the way for their participation in elections. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Their front page policies are all good stuff, reform copyright and patent law, reduce surveillance and uphold …
Posted on Wed 12 August 2009 in geek
I'm currently working from home so I can provide ambulatory acquisition and relocation services to Fliss as she recovers from her gammy foot. Running X clients over broadband is a bit of a pain but I haven't had a chance to get my VPN setup working properly yet.
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Posted on Mon 10 August 2009 in general • Tagged with walking
As has been reported elsewhere we went for a training walk on Saturday. We caught the train from Waterbeach to Ely and walked back home. The route was 11 miles and fairly easy to follow. There was only one point where the compass was useful in validating we were going …
Uber-systems don't work. The internet is testament to the value of having a distributed system built with components from multiple vendors inter-operating through common protocols. With that in mind I was happy to see the Conservative response to their independent report on NHS IT. While I haven't finished reading the …
Now the Fedora 11 has pushed Emacs 23 into it's testing repository I can now have 23.1 goodness on all the machines I regularly interact with (although having checked my Gentoo box is still 23.0.96.1, must fix that). I've previously implemented rather painful hacks to make …