As per the meme, here are my 20 points on Gov Camp UK. Sign up early. I dawdled and so was only able to get a ticket for Saturday. I feel like I missed out on a lot of interesting conversations. BarCamps should be recorded for posterity. It’s a point I’ve made before. Cameras and [...]
I was tweeted an interesting link the other day – We Don’t Make Demands. They have a set of posters for the “Occupy Movement” which incorporate QRpedia codes. These posters were designed by participants at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City. They are in the public domain. You are welcome to print [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, we’ve just had solar panels installed! Because of Greg Barker MP’s idiotic decision to scrap the Feed In Tariff with only six weeks’ notice – we’ve had to get this done in rather a rush. Thanks to Angi and Philip at Sunny Future Solar, we were able to [...]
It’s Time To Switch Banks are fucking us over. They gamble with our money, lose it, ask us for a bail out, lose more money, then ask us for yet another bail out! They are resisting even the very modest changes the government is imposing on them. No more. We have a very easy way [...]
As the Student Protests were starting outside my office door, I decided to pop down and see what was going on. I nominally joined in and took this selection of some of the more humorous signs I found. The photos seemed to go down well on Twitter – this one had 15,000 views and reached [...]
An online acquaintance of mine, Becky Hogge, has released a book! Barefoot Into Cyberspace tells the story of the “hacker scene” over the tumultuous last few years. Yesterday, Becky released a transcript of her interview with Julian Assange – in it he discusses the News of the World hacking, amongst other things. A fascinating interview [...]
Two years ago I was severely annoyed at Labour’s Andy Burnham for his plans to censor the net. Today, I am equally annoyed at the Conservative’s Ed Vaizey for a similarly corruptible scheme. I don’t have the money to lobby bribe donate to the Conservative party. I’m too scared of the police attempting to kill [...]
A quick report on OpenTech 2010 – the London event for geeks interested in Government data, openness and generally doing good things with tech and data. I attended last year’s event which inspired me to create my “VoteUK” service for the 2010 general election. I had considered doing a talk about the trials and tribulations [...]
In which the BPI threaten to sue me. Last night I was fortunate enough to find myself addressing the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Digital Economy Act. Eric Joyce MP managed to bring together a diverse group of people from all sides of the debate for a (mostly) civil discussion on the Act, its limitations, [...]
For those who don’t follow the hive-mind on Twitter, there has been a run in with Scientology trying to stifle free speech. Or, as I think, not. Here are the brief facts of the case. A local councillor (John Dixon) has a Twitter account “CllrJohnDixon” Last year, he tweeted: “I didn’t know the Scientologists had [...]
There have been howls of protest from Labour voters at the prospect of a Lib/Con coalition. The main complaint is that anyone daft enough to vote for Clegg has caused a Tory government. But is it true? Using data from The Guardian, we can see if the Lib Dems cost Labour a majority. In how [...]
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