I haven't commented much on the US election recently. It after all the democratic process in a sovereign country which is quite capable of making it's own decisions about who represents it. Of course given the USA's influence on the rest of the world it's understandable that we do take …

I've been spending quite a lot of idle cycles on Facebook with the rather fun Nations game. My nation now scores very highly in social freedom, education, technology and pretty much every other meaningful statistic. This is not surprising as I've consistently gone with pro-education, pro-choice decisions and a marked …

I'll stick to the geek topics in Chairman Brown's speech to conference yesterday. The issue of broadband poverty is a uniquely western problem in an age where we have mostly* solved the problems of feeding, housing and medical care for the population. However as more and more things become available …

Fun as it is to watch Labour struggle to contain a revolt by it's own members to oust Chairman Brown I can't help thinking a change of leader wouldn't do any good right now. While it's easier to argue against a general election for your first switch of leader while …

I finally figured out the correct magic to pass custom command line arguments to my emacs. This has allowed me to get the emacs-server running in a way more tuned to the way I work.

A lot of emacs people only run one instance of emacs and therefor take the …