As I plan more travel for 2023, the train is looking more and more comfortable. It’s not cheaper yet but sometimes with Eurostar, an interail ticket is cheaper than Eurostar’s prices, particularly if I want to travel on. Here are some notes and links. …
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A friend went on a river cruise and I thought that sounded fun. So I did some looking up. They’re not cheap at over £400 day, the Danube is more expensive than the Rhine; some prices exclude the journey there and back. Food and drink is often included, but they have several ways of getting…
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Why do the pension funds have to post collateral on their LDI portfolios?
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I became interested in having a [fake] plant in the bathroom, which has no windows. Here are my notes & links …
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This is available on youtube and as text, it is to my mind one of the best he’s given; he’s clearly more comfortable with the role than previously. The last 11 months of a polling lead which was to leap the following day will have helped, but I hope they don’t believe their propaganda that…
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And now we have #lab22, starting on Sunday, here are my notes …
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I had a look at the financial reports and plotted Labour’s membership over the last 10 years and then added another 20. Here are my notes …
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It’s been a while, but I am planning to return, probably by Eurostar.
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This seems a bit unstable, actually a bit unfair but they have changed how they deal with bursting swap, and firefox at least uses snap and so I may need some more tools. I have added to this page as I learn more about what additional configuration I need. My notes …
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I think I might return to coffee. Here are my notes …
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On making a Citizen’s assembly happen within the European Union
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There’s a lot of noise on the left about Freeport/Charter Cities. What are they and how dangerous to democracy and workers’ rights are they? Here are my notes.
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I got myself one for work, and love it so much that I bought myself one for me. It broke in August 2022, this is how I got it fixed or not. See ~/Documents/samsung. Mine is awesome blue and came with 64GB of RAM, I am very pleased with it.
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Will the 2022 Cost of Living crisis led to mortgage defaults and bank failures? Once more some notes,
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I have just lost an Ebay auction, I was out bid in the final seconds of the auction. I need to do better and these notes might help me.
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