I was pointed at, The Norwegian trial with Internet voting: results and challenges by an attendee at 31C3. The summary states there is no evidence that it increases turnout and concludes,
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Splash Pages in WordPress
Decided to try Splash Pages on this wiki, I wanted one for a specific page, I tried to use WP Splash Page, this offers limited configuration options, and sits in front of the site, not a page.
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SNOBs, a pseudo disintermediation page
For ex-students of St. Nicholas Grammar School, Northwood, its coeducational twin, St. Mary’s and their successor Haydon Comprehensive, I have found the following four reunion resources;
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Installing NWN2
When installing NWN2 today, I discovered, it’s best to do so from my GOG copy. The alternative would be to use one of my DVD sources, however the GOG copy comes with the extra games and most importantly the patches downloaded. The patch server has gone and so installing from disk does not work so…
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Changing the Clock on the Oven
I have a Baumatic B501SS Oven. I need the manual, at least to change the clock. Here’s where it is on Google!
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WordPress and Smilies
Just checking out how to use WordPress’s emoticons.
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Google’s Market Share
I got distracted during a debate on Google and their regulatory need to delete out-dated and irrelevant entries in their search index. How big is google in Europe?
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Der Spiegel and the internet blocking of the CCC
Der Spiegel reports on Three & Vodafone’s blocking of the Chaos Computer Club, with the headline, “British Porn Filter blocks the CCC web site.” This page is a Google Translate version in English as I cannot find their English language report. It refers to the open rights group’s http://blocked.org.uk site which documents the blocks.
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Managing RFEs & Wish Lists
It’s been a while since I looked at get satisfaction and user voice. Both are now focused at selling to the supplier and it would seem that one can no longer take a single whinger view. This page was deprecated in Nov 2020.
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Android’s Master Sync switch
I have installed one of the power managers on my Android phones, and when it reaches a v. low level of battery it offers me the option of entering “super saver” state. This turns off a number of rather useful services, most importantly the master sync service
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More wordpress voting plugins
I have been using Vote it up on my blog for a couple of years, although no-one else has, I think I received one vote that wasn’t me and they also commented. I noticed during the Autumn of 2014 that it seemed a bit broken. So I had a little look and decided to replace…
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