I am looking for an old world map on a mirror. I used to have one but they seem both scarce and expensive, although these things often go together. I thought I might have one made. Here are my notes.
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Moving this wordpress url and domain
I am looking to move this wiki to a location within davelevy.info. This was written in 2019, and in 2025, I let the deptford.red domain go, and needed to move that instance to another leaf in davelevy.info. Here are my [amended] notes…
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D&D Miniatures
Having cleared out nearly all my miniature models from Dungeons and Dragons & Warhammer, I was wondering about replacing some of them. Where to buy them and how to get them painted. Here are my notes. This was originally done in 2019 and I didn’t get round to seriously considering this until 2025.
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Visualising Electoral Data
My last post, Looking at the local election results, reminded me that I had been looking at how to visualise political data. Here are my notes. …
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Looking at the local election results
I might do some analysis of the local election results; this would be much easier waiting for the EC to publish the results in spreadsheet form. Here are my notes on sources and methodology.
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Donating with Gocardless
A British payment processor for managing direct debits accessible it seems to charities and maybe political parties. Here are my notes …
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FOI
I need to write an FOI request, I have Heather Brooke’s book and checked the ICO FOI page. Heather is probably best known in this country as the journalist who used the FOI Act to break the MPs expenses story. She later wrote a book about how to use the Act, called “Your Right to Know,…
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Silverlight
Some stuff still need it, I want to try it on Linux. Here are my notes.
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Bullying
What do we know about this? Here are my notes, which refer to bullying at work. …
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Economic Migration and Brexit
I was asked if I wanted to work in Germany, and sadly took too long to say, “Yes”. I was wondering what impact Brexit would have on such an opportunity. If the UK, agrees the Govt’s withdrawal agreement, there is a two year transitional agreement, which I think means that “Freedom of Movement” will continue…
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Trade Union Democracy
I was looking at the way democracy dies in Unions, with a whimper and came across these two articles, Trotskyism and Trade-Union Struggle from marxists.org and the Iron Law of Oligarchy, on Wikipedia. which points at further reading.
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Disguised Employment
I have needed to research the questions surrounding employee status, worker, or contractor status. Here are my notes and links.
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Image Credits
I am building a web site for my business and need to document the image credits, it would seem. Here are my notes …
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Big Data
I am once again trying to write my blog on solutions architecture and the GDPR. I looked up “Data Lake” again and came across some very good resources in a You Tube channel from Intricity. This summarises the design bifurcation between distributed data sources and unified query logic. It’s five years old. He or his…
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Web Monitoring with Uptime Robot
I have just discovered uptime robot, it monitors the availability and responsiveness of my web sites. It’s simple and free and I am quite excited.
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