I came across a video from Tory Party Conference, a round table on whether the Conservatives were doomed. It was hosted by Unherd, and the panellists are, Peter Hitchens, Ed West, Miriam Cates MP and Matthew Goodwin. For more as ever, read more … Continue reading “Are conservatives doomed?”
I used to have fun describing the Trotskyist sects as the 57 varieties, here’s two things to help understand its schismatic history. Read more … Continue reading “57 Varieties”
At this conference the LP made the documents much more easily available, and I was not a delegate, but they may remove the documents and I think I’d like my history to remain complete. Here is my document repo. … Continue reading “Labour Conference 21”
Dictionaries and language packs are not the same thing. To install a spell checker in Firefox, you need to install a dictionary, maybe both. I of course need this because I want UK spelling. Also spell checking needs to be turned on in the settings menu. Unusually there’s no more to read on this post.
I have just reset my PC and need to re-install my packages. A package manager with an offline database would be cool, like the MS store, but for those apps not on the store, there needs to be a different answer. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Package management on Windows”
The Al-anon Just for Today Prayer, the pictures are from a free to use source … Continue reading “Just for Today”
I was prompted by a plaque in the Tank Museum to consider if the Army was always looking back to the last war. It certainly seems to have done poorly in both Iraq & Afghanistan. In fact, once the British were known for winning their wars, but the hostory over the last 40 years is not so good. Looking on Google, about the Army’s institutional memory took me to “Losing the new great game” which discusses, quite critically the management of the military campaigns mainly in Afghanistan. It certainly reinforced some conclusions I had come too and the written paper, is very well referenced for those who want more. Continue reading “British Army Command & Doctrine”
This is simple, but done so rarely that I forget. Use the tablet to enter pairing mode, [maybe] press the button underneath the mouse, the tablet will ‘find’ the mouse, press the button underneath the mouse for good measure to confirm the pair, and that’s it.
There’s how far, north, south, east, west have you travelled meme going around the internet. Here’s two maps that answer this for me. … Continue reading “North, South, East & West”
During the noughties, the Labour Party failed to generate the cash to win and fight elections, it had to borrow tens of millions. Here’s some reporting on it, Continue reading “Labour noughties debt”
This was originally written to collect a series of tips about augmenting the build, but I have a problem with stability and reboot. Here are my notes … Continue reading “More on Ubuntu 20”
WTF are customer data platforms? An ad for the Gartner MQ piqued my interest but I also needed to look at what it was, and what it wasn’t! As ever, read more if you want … Continue reading “Customer Data Platforms”
Looking for Dennis Healy’s admiration for how Austria came to terms with its loss of Empire and found ‘Like Romans Becoming Italians’: Italy as the Negative Paradigm for British Decline in the Language of the Press and Denis Healey by Ettore Costa, published it seems in 2018. An interesting read, here are my notes. i.e. this is a review of the paper, not an essay on the theory of comparative advantage. Continue reading “Comparative Advantage”
Shit or not! My notes. Continue reading “SCRUM”
I wanted to say something simple about the cost of desk space in London and made it complicated. I made a map showing relative costs, this is how. Continue reading “Visualising London data”