Linkedin have been changing their look and feel over the last couple of weeks, possibly since the Microsoft purchase. I don’t find all these things good, as ever, here are my notes.
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Password Managers
I had cause to think about remote Password Managers last week. My conclusions and notes.
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PC to SMS
There are still people who only use feature phones or even simpler. How can one use a key board to send messages via SMS. Here are my notes, Twitter, ICQ and SMS gateways at the moment. I marked this as deprecated today. The CMS states that this article was created in March 2017, but the…
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Adding an Event to a Calendar
I wanted to add a widget to a wordpress web article that allowed readers to add the event to their calendars. I found the site called, “AddEvent“. Fabulous. Proving that doing one thing well is all a web service has to do.
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New Calendars in Google Calendar are not easily pushed out to the calendar app on Android. Here’s how for v6.0.1.
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Data Havens and Iceland
Some links on Iceland as a data haven, based on research conducted over the winter of 2016/2017.
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Emoji’s in WordPress
I have installed Super Emoji+. Here are some icons from the icon palette. 💬 🌶 🏦 🐱🗝
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Hitler rant from Downfall
As you know, a number of people have set alternative words to the scene in Downfall where his Generals tell him that there are no more soldiers between the Red Army and Berlin. I am particularly taken with this one which explores the funding of the UK Police and has clearly been written by someone…
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How to unpivot in Excel
The need to unpivot data is a common requirement. There are a number of reasons as to why. I and my customers are primarily using Excel on Windows and so the examples below are shown in excel and rely on excel functionality.
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Wajig
Wikipedia says, “Wajig is a simplified wrapper to Debian’s package management system dpkg/APT. Wajig provides the functionality of apt-get, dpkg, dpkg-deb, apt-cache and other tools. These tools launch as a subprocess. Wajig also provides extra functionality beyond that of the stock apt and dpkg tools.”.
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Analysing the 2015 General Election
I am fed up hearing about the PLP’s 9m votes mandate. A large number of these 9m votes will have voted for Labour candidates that lost. So I decided to calculate the number of votes cast for the PLP. So something for both political geeks and excel nerds. Here’s how I did it.
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Site Blocking
The BBC have got themselves a change in the law to charge a licence fee if you use internet devices to watch BBC’s on-demand and catch up content. This was originally written before I restated my No TV declaration. Their web site makes it clear that mobile devices are covered by any licence paid irrespective…
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Fedora 24
This is quite different, in particular the System V init files don’t work any more and so I need to implement a systemd solution to mount the virtual box shared folders. I think these need to run after the vboxaddclient service. Some documentation suggests that LSB compliant scripts will work. I am about to stop…
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FOAF
I have just repaired my FOAF file. I used the following resources to do so. Others are still campaigning for an open web, so I will stay there too. If I know you and want me to hold your entry in my file, please make a comment or email me with your “See Also” URL.
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International Association of Privacy Professionals
The International Association of Privacy Professionals is setting its stall out to be the worlds key privacy professional accreditation body. It has four accreditations, the most senior of which is experience only. Here are my notes about its resources.
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