I wrote some Python yesterday. Time for some stupid badinage in the office. …
The EU D.P. Regulations falls at the hurdle
Glynn Moody, of course, at TechDirt, syndicates the EDRi scoop about the final stages of the new EU Data Protection Regulation exposing the National Governments’ role in weakening the current legislation which have completed their 1st & 2nd stages. The EDRI have published a document called “Broken Badly” which contains their critique of the Council’s behaviour and positions because they weaken the rules around consent (both authorisation and purpose), corporate sanctions, duty to notify breaches, and the problematic one stop shop for jurisdiction. Correspondence to Chris Grayling I suppose. …
GAAP
Last night I went to the House of Commons for a panel session on “Government as a Platform”, I shall be writing up my notes, and putting them on my blog. Impressive panel but lots of thinking & work to do. …
Javascript
I have implemented the Nulis theme on my wordpress wiki, and have been developing a version upgrade at work for their wordpress site; it looks like I am going to have to get to grips with PHP and Javascript if I want to do more. It’s something I have been avoiding for years, but the latter at least is looking unavoidable if you want to write code and share it. …
hashtag
I really don’t like the way some people say the # in a tag as hashtag! i.e. “hashtagfail” or “hashtagtag” …
Making a Budget
A storify on Lwisham’s first post election budget meeting.
This is hosts a storify story and is published as at the date created. …
On the economics of copyright
When looking at the furore surrounding Julia Reda’s report to the European Parliament’s JURI committee, I am coming to the conclusion that those of us who argue for a fairer, more pro-consumer copyright settlement have won the economic arguments. The massive focus on the tiny change in duration reinforces this. All arguments I have had recently with proponents of the current settlement have rapidly moved from public good arguments to the issue of equity in investment, and the moral failure to compensate creators for their speculative investment. …
Lewisham Labour keeps its promises, as well is it can
Yesterday, Lewisham Council at its Budget Setting meeting, agreed a legal budget. While this involves reducing expenditure in some areas because of Tory central government grant cuts, the Labour Council kept its key manifesto promises, to freeze the Council Tax, sustain the living wage & build new houses. I made a storify from tweets and blogs from the Mayor and councillors. which tells part of the story. John Coughlin, the sole Green Councillor allowed himself the luxury of voting …
Musical talent
My lack of musical talent was exposed twice last night. It was open mic night at the Bird’s Nest, although I didn’t avail myself of the opportunity and I played the Battle of the Bards episode in NWN2 and used someone else’s answers. (It’s a copy this tune test, and there’s no way I was going to do that.) It reminds me of the piano puzzle in Myst, which I couldn’t do either. …
Europe’s winding road to Copyright Reform
This one of my recovered Storifies originally published in 2015. Over the last six months things have been moving on Copyright Reform in the European Union. On the 19th February, the new Copyright Directive’s rapporteur, the now sole Pirate Party MEP, Julia Reda, released her report, on which the JURI committee and later EP debates will take place. If you look at posts here and on my wiki published in 2018, you’ll get an idea as to how things changed.