It is insufficient to "take children's rights seriously", as home
educators claim they do. Rights have to be enforceable by an authority
outside the two parties involved, othe …
I am busy, too busy at the moment. But I read the emails I am sent. I read the blog posts too. I read Staffordshire County Council's version of events in my local freebie newspaper:
After quite some build-system related difficulties, we have finally succeeded building Sunbird 1.0b1rc1. Please download and test it within the next 2 weeks, if no critical errors show up this will …
Dick Cheney’s daughter is engaging on a witch hunt, it seems. Her Keep America Safe campaign is targeting lawyers who had the temerity to represent terror suspects.
Now Cheney’s daughter, Liz, has …
Assignment for Dailyshoot 116 on 2010/03/11: “"Rules" can be stifling if taken to extremes. Break the rules today with focus, composition, etc, and see what happens.”
It was with exceptional pleasure that we heard about DreamHost's plans add StatusNet to their one-click install program. DreamHost has a great reputation among Web pros for its exceptional hosting …
Suppose you want to use Flash on your website. I think this is a bad idea, but I accept that some are going to ignore my wise advice and do it anyhow. If you do this and you’re not careful, you can …
We recommend open source software whenever we can, and the Firefox browser from Mozilla is one of our favorites. Firefox 3.6 recently came out with persona support, allowing users to skin their …
So according to Naked Law, the technology blog for the law firm I used to work for, Centrica contracted Accenture to write some software, and that software turned out not to work like they wanted. …
While Old Holborn was delivering the public response to the consequences of previous dictatorial legislation, MPs were engaged in nearly four fucking hours of discussion on how to bring us all further …
Yaketee (‘ya-ke-t’E) is a message board with a twist. To post and read messages, you have to be on the same network as the people you’re exchanging messages with.
Using WiFi at the coffee shop? You …
Neil Burden indulges in the usual tired anti-motorcycle clichés in a CiF article that is the predictable ill-informed bollocks one expects from the Grauniad.
I have recently discovered the hugely …
It’s plain to see that I’ve not been a blogger for a long time.
This place is a long-neglected ghost town that sees a begrudged entry every few months, when I happen to remember it still exists and I …
Forgive the personal indulgence but this weblog is, in many ways, a record of my life, albeit told in the hazy after-mists of empty wine bottles. For a small portion of it, as a toddler in the …
I see that level crossings are in the news today.
The driving test should have compulsory questions on level crossings to cut the number of drivers who take risks on them each year, Network Rail has …
Assignment for Dailyshoot 114 on 2010/03/09: “Most of us enjoy some symmetry in our lives. Look around for it today and make a symmetrical photo. (via @melhutch) ”
Daniel Buchner (Jetpack project manager) is going to lead a Design Lunch this Thursday to talk about the rebooted Jetpack SDK (software development kit).
The Jetpack design team is specifically going …
I know, I know. I am behind with replying. Big style. But we are experimenting with a new working pattern, so we'll see how that goes and I'll be with you ASAP.
Something that was bugging me about Android was the touch screen keyboard. I found it impossible to type anything with acceptable speed or accuracy. Unless you have child-sized fingertips, you’re …
I've been drafted into a quiz team tonight. Well, it's not exactly a team as such, there being just two of us. However, we shall gallantly challenge significantly more populated outfits consisting of …
Montreal, Tuesday 9 March 2010 – StatusNet Inc launched the StatusNet Cloud Service (SCS) for public beta today. The SCS allows anyone to quickly setup a status update site at http://status.net with …
I received my Motorola Milestone android smartphone last Friday and have now first hand experience of the utility of such a device. It is a
navigation device
great “communicator” (micro-blogging, …
No committee days have been scheduled for the bill this month, which now lies helpless in its cradle waiting for its inevitable dismemberment in the "washup". So is this the end of the story?
There is one question that no one who denies manmade climate change wants to answer: what would it take to persuade you? In most cases the answer seems to be nothing. No level of evidence can shake …
Once again, this truly appalling government resorts to mass punishment to resolve what is, in fact, a small problem that is already illegal.
All dog owners in England and Wales would have to insure …
Scientists are looking at biological control of Japanese knotweed in the UK.
A tiny Japanese insect that could help the fight against an aggressive superweed has been given the go-ahead for a trial …
Last week there was no developer update as I was sick with the flu. This week however I wanted to do something different so I have been working on the sky in the game.
My first attempt was to simply …
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