I was looking at the way democracy dies in Unions, with a whimper and came across these two articles, Trotskyism and Trade-Union Struggle from marxists.org and the Iron Law of Oligarchy, on Wikipedia. which points at further reading.
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Disguised Employment
I have needed to research the questions surrounding employee status, worker, or contractor status. Here are my notes and links.
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Image Credits
I am building a web site for my business and need to document the image credits, it would seem. Here are my notes …
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Big Data
I am once again trying to write my blog on solutions architecture and the GDPR. I looked up “Data Lake” again and came across some very good resources in a You Tube channel from Intricity. This summarises the design bifurcation between distributed data sources and unified query logic. It’s five years old. He or his…
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Web Monitoring with Uptime Robot
I have just discovered uptime robot, it monitors the availability and responsiveness of my web sites. It’s simple and free and I am quite excited.
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Raspian & APT
This snip was originally created to document the arse-ache I had building my second Pi; it documented problems with Jesse & Stretch. The current release is buster and so much of this content is deprecated. In April 2020, I had reason to explore the code I use to maintain the currency of the apt cache….
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GDPR & DPA 2018
I have today returned to the GDPR and the Data Protection Act. I was specifically interested in “legitimate interest” and wrote a blog at linkedin on the subject. Here are my links and notes,
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Storage, real world not bytes
I need some cardboard boxes for my Dad’s slide collection, the internal dimensions must be 7cm +, his original boxes were 10″/25.5cm long and actually had three trays. (72 x 72 x 250 mm)
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Hayes & Harlington 1983
Wikipedia’s article on the 1983 election asks for citations where the SDP/Liberal vote allowed Tories to win seats on a plurality. Interestingly their page on Hayes & Harlington shows this and although it’s a seat where an SDP defector tried to hold the seat, the Tory vote is virtually unchanged and yet they won it…
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Settled Status
What exactly are the rights of EU citizens after Brexit? Here are my notes.
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Raspberry Pi Part Deux
I have decided to have another look. Here are my notes, since re-factoring the old page seems a bit of a chore. And now part three, I may need to rebuild the OS image from scratch.
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PHP, 1and1 and (most) of my webspace
I had to upgrade the PHP versions on my 1and1 domain systems. I am now on 7.2. I used the 1and1 control panel. Here are my other notes including the fact that I have replaced the A-Z index plugin. This was written in 2019. …
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HMRS
It seems I have not yet created a wiki page on HRMS software products. Here is what I have said, and here are some notes.
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The Socialist International
One of the issues raised while considering Venezuela, is the suggestion that since Jose Guaido’s party, Voluntad Popular is a member of the Socialist International, Labour Party member’s should be supporting him and his party; interestingly the Labour Party is no longer a full member of the SI, having downgraded its membership in favour of…
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Venezuela
On Venezuela, where the US would seem to be trying to engineer another regime change in support of their oil industry, here are my notes and my diigo bookmarks . I consider sanctions, human rights and democracy …
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