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Self Build Homes

January 21, 2015 Dave Life & Death

Housing is stupidly expensive in the UK, would it be cheaper to build my own? I did a couple of google searches, and nothing really exciting came up, except this.

I have written a lot recently about how building e-voting systems is hard but here are two initiatives that try and address this issue. I need to read about them in more detail, but the first uses the blockchain, it would seem bitcoin’s blockchain, while I am less clear on the Liquid Feedback’s architecture and…

ixquick and midori

January 19, 2015 Dave Linux, Technology

I am playing with Elementary and have decided I want to add ixquick to Midori’s search engine list. Here’s how I did it.

Child Themes

January 11, 2015 Dave Technology, Wordpress

Here are my notes on WordPress Child Themes. I made one for zbench and am now working with Nulis. The key wordpress codex page is here…. It documents how to create a child theme. The technique for defining inheritance has changed

Sony Hack

January 9, 2015 Dave Networking, Technology

I have been following the Sony Hack and its fallout. Here are my bookmarks.

Nulis

January 8, 2015 Dave Admin

I have implemented the Nulis theme on the wiki, which is apparent if you visit the site using a desktop or other large screen device. It still uses wptouch for smaller screens. I have turned off wptouch for this theme. It seems good for my android systems. The rest of this article talks about anchor…

Bitcoin

January 8, 2015 Dave Networking, Technology

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…

Energy Economics

January 8, 2015 Dave Economics

I wrote and posted on my blog, “Is IT a utility?“, it’s unfinished and there’s some dubious stats and treatment and so I have created this supporting article.

More research on e-voting

December 31, 2014 Dave Politics, Technology

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,

Splash Pages in WordPress

December 24, 2014 Dave Technology, 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.

SNOBs, a pseudo disintermediation page

December 24, 2014 Dave Life & Death

For ex-students of St. Nicholas Grammar School, Northwood, its coeducational twin, St. Mary’s and their successor Haydon Comprehensive, I have found the following four reunion resources;

Installing NWN2

December 24, 2014 Dave Games, NWN

When installing NWN2 today, I discovered, it’s best to do so from my GOG copy. The alternative would be to use one of my DVD sources, however the GOG copy comes with the extra games and most importantly the patches downloaded. The patch server has gone and so installing from disk does not work so…