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. …

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.

This is published as at the date created. …