The best comment on Charlottesville, “Just to be clear guys, it stopped being about statues the moment people started walking around with swastikas, I think that can be pretty much agreed universally.” from CNN’s Kate Bolduan. …
Falling disk prices?
The long term price of storage is falling. Software defined storage appliances include copyright protected software. The latter price does not fall. I wonder if this is the right way to go. …
Wonderland
openwonderland.org has gone? What happened? It seems it was 9 years ago that I was playing with it! …
Too hard to leave
I wish I could make this a haiku, it was written for and published on twitter.
On #Brexit #lab16 Labour’s Conference is right; redlines on citizen rights or No!
It’s too hard to leave, people with good will, if limited intellect, towards #Brexit are failing to agree satisfactory terms.
On the sanctity of the referendum’s democratic will, we now already have a second mandate, the general election 2017.
Also Parliament can’t guarantee anything, it can always change its mind. …
No safe space
I made a storify after the election, and its terrorist disruption about the, mainly Tory response in blaming the internet. I don’t make the point that the Northern Ireland “troubles” were pre-internet but I do talk about the Tories, and May’s instinctive response is to censor and silence dissidents. I also point to Amnesty International’s critical report on the UK’s surveillance laws. I transferred this to the blog, as at the original date of publication, once Storify announced they were abandoning their service.
Corbyn & Digital Politics
I made a storify about Corbyn & Digital Politics and his digital democracy manifesto. I used it to inform the writing of “Corbyn on Digital” on my wiki. I transferred this to the blog, as at the original date of publication, once Storify announced they were abandoning the service.
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A better Data Protection Law
I made a storify about the Government’s proposed Data Protection Law, implementing the GDPR. I transferred this to the blog, as at the original date of publication, once Storify announced they were abandoning the service.
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The single market, it’s the State that’s the problem
Over the summer, most Brexit/Remain players have been on manoeuvres and Jeremy Corbyn’s appearance on the Marr show together with various clarifications have ensured for Labour at least membership of the single market has become a focus for what a post-brexit relationship would look like. In my opinion, if we were to stay in the single market via the European Economic Area, we might as well stay in and keep our MEPs, Council Seat (& Veto), Commissioner, Judges, the rebate, our opt-out from common borders (Schengen) and our indefinite opt-out in joining the Euro. I support these things, and staying in, I understand why Brexiters have now come to oppose the single market. …. …
Counting
I am considering some issues relating to the conduct of elections in the UK. In Lewisham Labour we are selecting a candidate for Mayor and the election will be conducted using a simple eliminating ballot, sometimes referred to as an Alternative Voting scheme. This, it can be argued is a special case of a more proportionate voting system; the special nature being that there is only one winner and thus the result is not so proportionate. The rest of this article is a technical description of an alternative vote election, a single transferable vote election and a closed list proportional representation election using the D’Hondt counting system. …
Women’s Conference Arrangements Committee
Last year Labour Conference voted to make Women’s Conference a policy making body and thus it need a Conference Arrangements Committee. The left candidates are Theresa Clark and Jean Crocker. Their statements, which include their LP Numbers which are needed for the nomination are here… & here…. Further necessary information needed to nominate Teresa & Jean is on a comment in this CLPD facebook post. …