I wanted to say something simple about the cost of desk space in London and made it complicated. I made a map showing relative costs, this is how.
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Unified Patent Court
This has been a long time coming or not coming; but what does Brexit do to it. This piece holds my notes, and concludes by asking if the political opposition is based on “sovereignty as a business”? …
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Delegates to Conference
The rule on delegate entitlement in Chapter 3 says, C3.I.1.B. Delegates duly appointed by CLPs to the number of one delegate for the first 749 individual members in the constituency or part thereof paying their membership dues as of 31 December in the previous year, and one further delegate for every additional 250 individual members…
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Apple vs Otis, FRAND vs FLOSS
I was pointed at Apple vs Otis in the UK Courts. This is an NPE suing Apple for its non-permitted use of a standards essential patent. The court backs Otis and is now assessing a fair licence agreement. Apple say that if it considers it unfair, they’ll with draw from the UK. There is, of…
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A new tablet?
What if I need a new Tablet? Here are my notes?
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Adequacy
The Commission have issued an adequacy agreement to permit cross border data flows between the EU and the UK. Here are some notes, for an article that I’ll develop/post elsewhere. …
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Android 2nd Screen
I need a second screen in the house to help with zoom calls. Can I use my android tablet? It seems the answer is yes! Here are my notes …
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Ubuntu 20 & Video codecs
Bother. Never as easy as you’d hope.
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Is voter id/GOTV worthwhile?
I am receiving notices from comrades planning to travel to Batley & Spen to help Labour’s ground campaign. I wish them well. It’s part of Momentum’s mythology that they almost won it for Labour in 2017 with the new ground campaign/doorstep but how useful is it?
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Steel
The Tories are about to fuck up the steel industry … again. No they didn’t. Here are my notes and links.
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Notes on cluetrain after 15 years
I have been asked, or chosen, to get involved in planning a social media presence for a campaigning organisation. It made wonder how useful cluetrain was, and remains and the extent to which it has been superseded. Here are my links and notes …
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Labour’s +ive action for women
I am considering some of the positive action programmes in place in the Labour Party, which are most extensively developed in favour of women. The Labour Party’s rules are subject to the law of the land[s] and possibly the most important part of the positive action programme for women other than all women short lists…
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Another Amethyst?
The Govt send HMS Defender into the Black Sea where it approached or entered Ukraine’s or Russia’s territorial waters and the Russians took some form of warning action using either artillery, naval guns and/or bombs. This is just a provocation. WTF were we doing there? …
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Searching a document (other than [Ctrl F])
I need to make a policy book for the local CLP, I was wondering how to build search into a single document. If using word, it seems that and index and table of contents might be best. Here are my notes …
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Privacy, another Brexit benefit
An attack on our rights to privacy? Now they think they’re free from the EU, our security state, encourages the government to roll back those privacy rights that were underwritten by the EU treaties and the Human Rights Act. Here are some links and notes …
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