Everyone’s doing it, here are my notes and links; the original founding white paper is here! https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf. This was first written in 2015, and has been added to several times. The Government have started to talk about a central bank digital currency. This led me to look for and find Bruce Schneier’s piece, On the…
Read moreMore research on e-voting
I was pointed at, The Norwegian trial with Internet voting: results and challenges by an attendee at 31C3. The summary states there is no evidence that it increases turnout and concludes,
Read moreSplash Pages in WordPress
Decided to try Splash Pages on this wiki, I wanted one for a specific page, I tried to use WP Splash Page, this offers limited configuration options, and sits in front of the site, not a page.
Read moreWordPress and Smilies
Just checking out how to use WordPress’s emoticons.
Read moreGoogle’s Market Share
I got distracted during a debate on Google and their regulatory need to delete out-dated and irrelevant entries in their search index. How big is google in Europe?
Read moreDer Spiegel and the internet blocking of the CCC
Der Spiegel reports on Three & Vodafone’s blocking of the Chaos Computer Club, with the headline, “British Porn Filter blocks the CCC web site.” This page is a Google Translate version in English as I cannot find their English language report. It refers to the open rights group’s http://blocked.org.uk site which documents the blocks.
Read moreManaging RFEs & Wish Lists
It’s been a while since I looked at get satisfaction and user voice. Both are now focused at selling to the supplier and it would seem that one can no longer take a single whinger view. This page was deprecated in Nov 2020.
Read moreAndroid’s Master Sync switch
I have installed one of the power managers on my Android phones, and when it reaches a v. low level of battery it offers me the option of entering “super saver” state. This turns off a number of rather useful services, most importantly the master sync service
Read moreMore wordpress voting plugins
I have been using Vote it up on my blog for a couple of years, although no-one else has, I think I received one vote that wasn’t me and they also commented. I noticed during the Autumn of 2014 that it seemed a bit broken. So I had a little look and decided to replace…
Read moreAbout Maps and Data
This is an omnibus article on data visualisation using maps. I went back to map visualisation solution in the autumn of 2014. This maps tag retrieves the the articles on this wiki. My current interests is in web hosted maps visualisations and thus in wordpress. I have also found this article, 10 Free Tools For…
Read morePidgin & TRM Runes
While trying to configure pidgin to act as a console for TRM once known as Reuters’ Messenger, I came across this page at their sourceforge site which documents the magic runes, critically the User Name.
Read moreBags of Words
We have been looking at Text Mining, which takes me to the concept of Bag of Words & Carrot2.
Read moreCustom WordPress Plugins
It seems that the wordpress plugin page lists those plugins held in the ./wp-content/plugins folder. The article, What, Why, and How-To’s of Creating a Site-Specific WordPress Plugin shows how to create a container. They advise that it is located in its own directory. Doing this creates an entry in a the Plugins, installed plugins page…
Read moreClonezilla
Make a Live CD or bootable USB, see http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php then running it, see http://www.geekyprojects.com/cloning/how-to-use-clonezilla-tutorial/
Read moreLaunching unindexed programs in W8.1
With windows 8.1, my usual desktop metaphor for calling programs and the optimal alternative are less easy to implement; this is especially true for programs that are only occasionally used. I have historically created a folder called “More” and placed favourite’s to the program into the folder. (This is in order to keep my desktop…
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