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Rendering RSS on my blog or wiki

June 13, 2014 Dave Technology, Wordpress

I have for a long time sought to present rss feeds within pages on this blog. It was started by a desire to use my social bookmark service as additional links in some of the reference articles on this wiki. The page was started in Jun 2014. Here my notes, although this page was subject…

Musings on O356

June 2, 2014 Dave Cloud, Technology

So work is pushing me to Office 365; it wouldn’t surprise me if the next home system does so too. I have decided to see if W7 and a more modern hardware makes OWA easier to use. Since tese comments are contemporaneous with W7, I have marked it deprecated…

Yvette Cooper at Demos

May 21, 2014 Dave Politics

This is/was a note on a speech made by Yvette Cooper called the challenges of a Digital World to our security and liberty. This has a link to the speech, but was made in May 2014, the world has moved on. As ever my review of Labour front-bench speeches proves/proved to optimistic. I have marked…

Using EXIF on my home IT

May 18, 2014 Dave software, Technology

I need to write a script that installs author and copyright facts into my pictures. The EXIF libraries are what I need. I’ll also need a scripting language; I used cygwin bash as my prototyping environment.

Apache Flume

May 8, 2014 Dave Technology

Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. It uses a simple extensible data model that…

Code is Law

May 2, 2014 Dave Politics

Lessig’s article, “Code is Law” for Harvard Magazine is here. I have made a .pdf here and a.docx here. both hosted on this bliki site.

DOT & Graphviz

April 29, 2014 Dave Technology

I was introduced to DOT and Graphviz. This might be useful for building dependency charts. I particularly like the radial display.

Thunderbird, use thereof

April 29, 2014 Dave software, Technology

This now seems pretty ubiquitous on my PC/Laptops since I moved my personal mail from Outlook to TB on my works machine to minimize errors. I have it installed on three systems, two windows and one Mac. I really need one set of filters, possibly most importantly to enforce deletions and filing decisions. Here are…

Planning Labour’s Digital Manifesto

April 21, 2014 Dave Politics

The NPF’s programme only mentions the digital economy once, and this is to promise more speed, everywhere it can go. There are two internal pressure group style swarms/groups/initiatives.

New Home IT

April 10, 2014 Dave I.T., Technology

Originally written on the death of my first XP system. My problems were compounded when I moved and with the expiry of Windows XP, I need to move my desktop systems on, to Laptops it seems! 😎

Ruggedising the Internet

April 8, 2014 Dave Networking, Technology

Mike Masnick writes a little article forecasting the engineers re-writing the single points of failure out of the internet. He entitles his article, Building A More Decentralized Internet: It’s Happening Faster Than People Realize. He cross references to two articles written by himself back in 2010, Operation Payback And Wikileaks Show The Battle Lines Are…

Job Control

April 7, 2014 Dave Macos, Technology

It seems that Mac have begun to decrement cron and recommend the use of launchd for job control. I have found the following links to help me write the job control parameter file. man launchd a manual page on launchctl Mac launchd and launchctl — the OSX alternative to cron a blog by arunxjacob Scheduling Timed…