I use a fantastic little Firefox add-on called It's all Text to spawn an Emacs client when editing text boxes. However up until recently I kept having problems with formatting of my posts. Even though HTML doesn't really care about white space most blog software tends to treat them as …

GStreamer is the media framework used by the Gnome Desktop. For the most part it's working is hidden from users as media players setup up the processing pipelines required. However sometimes you just want to play something from the command line and that's where a lot of head scratching can …

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 …