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 It made wonder how useful cluetrain was, and remains and the extent to which it has been superseded.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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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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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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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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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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I have left Elementary and returned to Ubuntu, which is on v20 now. I am tired of having Linux stuff just not work. Elementary’s distro upgrade path is a menace, there’s no RDP, cloud disks are a pain in the butt, and now I found problems with bluetooth. Here are my notes on starting up…
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The Unite GS election and the new GMB GS’s introductory statement in the Morning Star have brought the questions of syndicalism and auto-labourism to the fore. Personally I wonder if this is a rehashing of the debates around the service model vs. organisational model. Here are my notes?
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I was working with Stylish and came across and article that <DIV> tags should be avoided. Stylish uses IDs and CLASSes to change the look & feel Why avoid these elements? A second thought is how can one use buttons to change the look and feel of a page by applying different styles? Do you…
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I needed to check my notes on RSS autodiscovery; I wrote about it in passing in my article on Venus, and on returning found this article by Pete Freitag. The key idiom is to add a <link> tag in the <head> section of your html page. Here are more notes …
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I attended the AEIP National Committee yesterday and now have some more reading to do, about SEO, and other campaigning organisations. Here are some links.
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A note on Redundancy Bumping. Bumping is the process of moving a potentially redundant employee into another role, and dismissing the employee currently performing that role. Here are my notes.
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As June 21st approaches, a whole bunch of people are looking at how to run Hybrid Meetings. This is not easy with consumer technology i.e. laptops, neither the mic. nor the camera’s are likely to be good enough. One will thus be reliant on the venue’s AV facilities. Here are my notes on the tech…
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Another article on Excel idioms; this one’s about dates. It’ll be useful for some.
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I have had Zoom fail to connect to the camera on my PC over the last couple of days. Zoom say to make sure that other camera using applications have detached. I used [ctrl][alt][del] to start the task manager and noticed that Teams was still running. So I used the end task button and the…
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My recent problem with the Raspberry Pi is an event monitoring and notification problem. It’s one, that over my career, I have spent a lot of time considering, but today, I only have one server. I don’t think I need or want to afford something like Zabbix, which comes with a series of event monitors…
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