They’re changing the rules on IR35. They seem to have forgotten that probably its first goal was to indemnify the top of the chain from tax malfeasance; it was only a second goal to shag the horny handed sons of toil in the IT industry. A few notes …
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While writing my piece on DAAS, two years ago, where I came to the conclusion that Azure was a better host, I also looked at Ubuntu on Amazon. Here are my notes which consist mainly of videos.
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I am checking up on the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, the home page is very useful and points at other links. I want to build a boot server for an SME network.
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The Labour Party’s nominations are in for the Spring Elections; I have converted the Labour Party’s web pages to .pdf and mirror them here.
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Part of the argument about the election results has become whether Corbyn’s Labour should have pitched itself more profoundly against 40 years of Thatcherism. I have my own critiques of the New Labour governments, but I hadn’t seen a failed Regional Policy as one of them. Here are my notes. …
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I was looking for a DSAR template, but couldn’t find anything for free, except the ICO page. So I made one, here are my notes, or will be …
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Post election, I wanted to make some sankey diagrams. My usual data visualisation tools are Excel or Libre Calc and I don’t think they include this charting option, but I want to do it. Here are my unfinished notes …
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I need to replace my bathroom extractor fan. It is a Vent-Axia Silhouette 100T. Here are my notes …
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I am doing a couple of cases that require me to check up the likely compensation for discrimination at work. Here are my notes. …
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In order to answer the questions I want answered I need the election results in spreadsheet form. I have previously got this from the Electoral Commission; it took ’em 18 days to get it out last time, wonder what the delay is this time. Eventually, I was pointed at the House of Commons Library Page,…
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Another GDPR requirement is that when signing up for something, the publisher needs to verify that the email given is genuine and belongs to the user. WordPress offers several plugins; there are other ways, here are my notes …
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One of the first commentators on the General Election was a new outfit called DataPraxis, anyway new to me. The report, Tory Landslide, Progressives split is published as a tightly defined .pdf and is behind a use once cookie controlled access scheme. It’s very hard to share, navigate & mine. Here’s what I have done…
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