Confidence of the House

Dave Politics

Prime Minsters come but always go. It’s meant to be one of the advantages of a parliamentary system but how many have we lost because they lost the confidence of the house. Here are my notes. …

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EU-UK trade & co-operation agreement

Dave Life & Death, Politics

The UK Govt. and EU Commission have agreed a treaty to govern the UK’s 3rd party relationship with the EU covering trade, some programmes, security and governance. I put my first thoughts on my blog, inspired by Tom Kiblasi’s instant reaction, but I needed to go further. Here are some links and notes. …

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Home TV

Dave Gadget

I might get myself a large tv screen/monitor, bit where to put it. Here are some links/ideas.

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NWN2 Monks

Dave Games, NWN

I started a new game, and am running a Monk, because the game, called “Bad Habits” is made for one. Here are my notes …

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W10 and a new boot disk

Dave Technology, W10

If buying an SSD for a deskside windows system, it is best to configure the new disk as the book disk since the SSD will then also provide the swap file location, and the location for most of the software binaries. How might one do this? Here are my notes.

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Army Helicopters

Dave Politics

My planned defence piece led me to look up the British Army’s Helicopters; I think there is a joint helicopter command now,  but otherwise here are my notes. …

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America’s Cup 2020-21

Dave Games

I thought I’d write something about the America’s cup, due to start later this month. It’s the epitome of Michael Green’s comment in Coarse Sailing, “the only sport where you don’t congratulate the winner when losing, but run into the committee room to complain and get them disqualified”. I was much more interested in the…

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