Spent some time at the #openrightsgroup xmas party…you had to move fast to get some food, but the staff at the Castle were marvellous as are the people running #privacyinternational who I met for the second time in a month …
Lenin
Yesterday, I wrote a short essay on Risk Criticality and then went on to a meeting with booze about privacy & surveillance, and today, I wrote about windows administration and went on to a meeting without booze on economic policy and the balance of class forces. Lenin would be turning in his grave. …
Burgers
And a trip to #thebirdsnest for the best burger in south london! S//Jalapeño Burger/,^BBQ Sauce^Burger Sauce^ … not sure we use the ñ in Deptford …
Sharks
While watching a season 1 episode of #csimiami, I wonder why so many US cop shows jump the shark by bringing the protaganist’s personal lives into the show? The only exception is those that start there, like #thecloser. (Have you seen the last season of CSI Miami?) 😣 …
Reading
Yesterday was a long day at work, mainly encrypting and decrypting desktop computer files & some further consideration of building product user communities. I looked at my reading list, made longer by a visit to Waterstones earlier in the month where I had picked up Keynes vs. Hayek & read half a chapter. I really must finish it. …
Proceed Cake
Standing Orders! Eh! …
City Hall
I went over to City Hall, for a London Labour Party reception last night and met and spoke to lots of interesting people. One conversation that’s exercising people, is the growth of the Green Party. I just can’t get how people are arguing that we should listen to UKIP’s voters and fight the Greens. The Labour Party has left huge amount of space to its left and the Greens are occupying it. Whether the “Tories on bikes” will live with this is another matter but which of their policies do we disagree with? Minimum Wage? School governance? Re-Nationalising the Railways?
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Channelling Pepys
Yesterday was a day in two parts, writing up my notes on last month’s BCS meeting on the changing Privacy legal environment, specifically the coming EU Data Protection regulation and then some drinkies with firstly Richard Morgan, and then some work colleagues. So, Canary Wharf, then the Old Star in Westminster, and onto the City…and so to bed. …
Rude
It seems that Microsoft have removed some of the ruder emoticons from Skype. I discovered this while looking up wordpress’s emoticon features.
monopoly in film
On the 27th Sept, Torrentfeak comments on an MPAA funded report on film distribution in the USA. It highlights the oddity that the most used service (Netflix) has the weakest catalogue. Later in the year, the researcher, KPMG LLP published a report on the UK market, which Torrentfreak commented on here…. The headline was that a film fan wanting the best catalogue would need to subscribe to 27 services, which seems a bit excessive. …