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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Raspian & APT
This snip was originally created to document the arse-ache I had building my second Pi; it documented problems with Jesse & Stretch. The current release is Buster and so much of this content is deprecated. I amended this in Dec 2025 and in April 2020. I have moved deprecated content to the comments and updated…
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GDPR & DPA 2018
I have today returned to the GDPR and the Data Protection Act. I was specifically interested in “legitimate interest” and wrote a blog at linkedin on the subject. Here are my links and notes,
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Storage, real world not bytes
I need some cardboard boxes for my Dad’s slide collection, the internal dimensions must be 7cm +, his original boxes were 10″/25.5cm long and actually had three trays. (72 x 72 x 250 mm)
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Hayes & Harlington 1983
Wikipedia’s article on the 1983 election asks for citations where the SDP/Liberal vote allowed Tories to win seats on a plurality. Interestingly their page on Hayes & Harlington shows this and although it’s a seat where an SDP defector tried to hold the seat, the Tory vote is virtually unchanged and yet they won it…
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Settled Status
What exactly are the rights of EU citizens after Brexit? Here are my notes.
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