My original article in 2015 pointed at the fanclub’s grive, this ceased to work on my elementary build and so with some googling I found an alternative. NB I moved from elementary to ubuntu in 2019. I revisited this in 2023, while using Ubuntu 22. For U22 this is now integrated and accessed via online…
Read more
I had a chat with Kieron Bradley, a long time collaborator and colleague and we looked at new age storage/persistence architectures. New ideas are coming out of Linkedin, and the recommended further reading includes,
Read more
While working on Nulis and while attempting to solve some other problems I began to need to document the contents of wordpress databases. The first problem I sought to solve was to build a visual map of the site. This needs the schema to be understood and the table contents to be extracted. This needs…
Read more
I had a quick look to check out erlang and installed it on one of my VMs. I also checked out what “Hello World” looked like. Stackoverflow has a getting started article here…. This article is currently just a couple of links.
Read more
While winding myself up to play NWN2, I started experimenting with image morphing software, to see if I could make a video of a Druid Shifter polymorphing into their werebear shape. Sadly I think I lost the pictures from the 1st attempt and so as I started the game I had another go. Anyway once…
Read more
I returned to pump.io in Oct 2016 and again in May 2017 when I rebuilt the page deprecating aged content . The page had remained unchanged since I had to stop my 2015 experiments.
Read more
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…
Read more
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.
Read more
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
Read more
I have been following the Sony Hack and its fallout. Here are my bookmarks.
Read more
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…
Read more
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.
Read more
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,
Read more
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.
Read more
Just checking out how to use WordPress’s emoticons.
Read more