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. …

Survey

Just done a workplace survey about IT Security. It’s a bit American, not so appropriate for a consultancy, weak on cloud and its vendor accreditation list misses out the cloud providers such as Amazon & Microsoft. …

Euler

How odd! Helen Lewis writes about Anonymity & Hacktivism in the New Statesman here… and talks about strong and weak relationships; this motivates me to start on Graph Theory again, (I say start again, I mean start) which takes me to the Koningsberg Bridge problem and Euler. Like the London buses, you live for years without knowing of him and he comes along twice in three days.

did a bit of survey research in the office since I did no Graph Theory at school to see if others had; the results suggest that it was obviously around and probably more useful than triangles of velocity. …

No pasaran

A walk down to Greenwich to see if the market has any Xmas treats for friends. Inspired by some of the pictures on sale but not enough, a quick mosey around the old Naval College; they were shooting ‘Bastille Day’, so tricolours and “no pasaran” and then lunch at Byrons.

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World’s 1st wine

The Today programme: Today, first an article on Drinking and Driving, which as any fuhl kno is bad, followed by Stalin’s Chef’s cook book, and then Idi Amin’s and then onto Hitler’s farting….which all reminded me, if you visit Vinopolis in London, their exhibit on Europe’s first wine (from Georgia, which is the segue) has to be tried, if only once. (It remains a surprise to me that humanity persevered.) …