I've mentioned distributed version control systems a few times. It was interesting note the advice that Savannah is giving about recovering from a recent disk crash. Both Git andMercurial based projects can restore from local repositories as they contain all the revision history within them. The centralised version control systems …

It's a slightly odd situation where the results of local elections and European's were so spread apart. Locally in my ward the Lib Dems held on while a resurgent Tory party chipped away at the incumbents lead. Overall the council was no change from the fairly safe Conservative council you …

A few weeks ago I contacted all my MEPs to request the last years worth of expenses claims they had made. Only the Lib Dems actually provided the information requested (although being MEP's in condensed summary form, they have an even laxer expenses than Westminster). The one Labour MEP was …

I've been messing around with some weird-ass behaviour with my emacs-server. I had some code in it to deal with automatically opening a fresh frame (while in X) which I had plugged from the emacsclient wiki page. In one of my more recent updates the bleeding edge emacs I run …