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  • Britain & sick pay

    Britain & sick pay

    While considering motions to go to GMB’s National Congress, I and my comrades considered sick leave and sick pay. Some of the saddest stories I have from my time acting as an …
  • Vilnius

    Vilnius

    I fancy a trip, Rough Guide is on the way; here are my notes.
  • Education, Teacher Assessments 2006

    Education, Teacher Assessments 2006

    Reporting Teacher Assessments This was created in 2006. It’s thus probably completely wrong now and many of the links will be broken. ooOOOoo
  • Banking Regulation Reform

    Banking Regulation Reform

    I was pushed to look at some of the Banking Regulation reform performed by the last government. My focus was to look at the Vickers aka Independent Commission on Banking and the …
  • Back to Ubuntu

    Back to Ubuntu

    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 …
  • Some thoughts on No SQL

    Some thoughts on No SQL

    A problem at work led to me run a few quick queries to determine if MoSQL was the way to go, we had some legacy code constraints and some legacy skills constraints.
  • Visualising electoral data again

    Visualising electoral data again

    Obviously with the results of the general election announced my mind turns to analysis and visualisation. I had/have been looking at this for a while, and here are my notes. Actually this …