Month: June 2003
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Calendar’s Working
Excellent! The week now starts on a Monday, which anyone in the world apart from the States knows. I used a patch from a kindly soul on the Movable Type support forum.
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Entitlement Cards: The Follow Up
Well no sooner do I blog, than things happen (unless our proxy is really misbehaving). First of all, I note that on Wednesday, in response to a question from “Mr Bailey” asking a question about when the analysis of the consultation on entitlement cards will be complete, Beverley Hughes from the Home Office responded that…
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Hansard is slow…
Well so much for Hansard’s claim that they update the previous day’s contents at 8.00am the following day. It’s nearly quarter to three in the afternoon, and I still can’t see any of yesterday’s reports!
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Fixed site
Well I haven’t sorted the calander yet, but I do seem to have managed to retrieve all my missing entries. They really were missing – probably as a result of the corrupt database, but the old HTML tables still existed on my server, so I was able to reconstruct the entries and import them back…
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CSS
The best way of learning something new code-wise is to experiment, and steal other peoples code. So I’ve been busily borrowing from those fine people at Bluerobot to learn how to do three columns. There are a couple of things I’m not happy with. There are gaping holes in the top left and right hand…
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We Oppose ID Cards Afterall
The governement’s admitted that the public response to the ID card scheme was largely anti their introduction. They’ve finally decided that the 5,000 emails sent via the Stand website should be counted individually. But according to the BBC article they’re still being reluctant in saying what’s going to happen next. Watch this space.
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Berlusconi Immunity
So Berlusconi’s managed to get himself off some more alleged crimes. It’s ever so handy to be president when you don’t want to be found guilty of something. You just change the law.
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1984
It’s a long time since I read 1984. I’m fairly certain that it would have been prior to the year 1984. It’s one of those books that many of us study at school (although it being a twentieth century novel, it played no part in my ‘O’ Level). It has also just been named as…
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Honourable Deceit
This seems to be the phrase of the moment. The Independent today gives over its front page to a story detailing the alleged deception; that Tony Blair did deliberately mislead the public over the likelihood that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Yesterday Robin Cook and Clare Short spoke out about how the country was…
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Michael Nyman
One way or another, I’ve done quite well out of the BBC today. As well as waking me up earlier today, they also supplied me with free tickets to see the BBC Concert Orchestra playing film music by Michael Nyman at the Royal Festival Hall this evening. Nyman himself was conducting, with a full range…
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More Spooks
The quality of this series is very up and down. More up than down, although the episode that aired on BBC1 last night (and BBC3 the week before when I saw it) was easily the worst, with a computer child prodigy apparently single-handedly bringing down MI5. Last night’s episode dealing with a stolen $20bn was…
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Oh The Irony
I’m happily asleep this morning when the phone rings. I look at the clock and see that it’s 7.34, which means I’m late. Who’s phoning me at 7.34? Alex from the Danny Baker Show that’s who. I’m suddenly aware that my radio is set to Radio 3 since that’s what I put it on to…