Yvette Cooper at Demos

This is/was a note on a speech made by Yvette Cooper called the challenges of a Digital World to our security and liberty. This has a link to the speech, but was made in May 2014, the world has moved on. As ever my review of Labour front-bench speeches proves/proved to optimistic. I have marked…

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Using EXIF on my home IT

I need to write a script that installs author and copyright facts into my pictures.  The EXIF libraries are what I need. I’ll also need a scripting language; I used cygwin bash as my prototyping environment.

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Apache Flume

Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. It uses a simple extensible data model that…

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Code is Law

Lessig’s article, “Code is Law” for Harvard Magazine is here. I have made a .pdf here and a.docx here. both hosted on this bliki site.

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