An "announcent" on Facebook does not equal making a public announcement. Isn't that obvious? It seems so to me, but not to an increasing number of organisations and event organisers. One particular one has been frustrating me recently. ... read more
A Facebook page != making a public announcement
Met Office gives a lesson on how to degrade the usability of your website.
Yesterday I noticed the following notice on the 5 day weather report pages on the Met Office (what the Meteorological Office now call themselves) website. ... read more
What is Friendica for?
Yesterday I installed Friendica on my server. I had an installation before that I never really used ... but I'm giving it another go. ... read more
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey - a thirteen part video series
I mentioned on IRC that I was re-reading Marx's Capital volume I when a friend pointed me towards a video series that he was going through. It's recordings of the lecture series that Professor David Harvey does every year on Marx's Capital (volume 1 so far). ... read more
Top ten GNU/Linux text editors
I've seen a few "Top 10 text editors" type articles lately and thought that I'd have a go. ... read more
Skip Skype
Suppose you went into a mobile telephone shop for a new deal. After looking you decide which call-price package to go for, then the sales person excitedly picks up a "Skip Inc" telephone and says that you really should go for this handset because you can use it to call other Skip telephones for free! ... read more
New recording - Lemmie Brazil's No 2
I did this recording back at the beginning of June. ... read more
A Git hook for publishing Jekyll websites
A git called Jekyll hooking websites??!!?! What? ... read more
Sun, socialism and GNU/Linux
In the past, computer programming wasn't something that immediately sprang to my mind when thinking of Cuba. These days it does, thanks to Free Software. ... read more
March for the alternative
I went on the TUC organised "March for the Alternative" against the vicious ConDem government cuts on Saturday (March 26th) along with over half a million others. ... read more
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Musician, web mangler and GNU/Linux user.
I also go by the nick ecadre.
There are all sorts of bit and bobs here, some computer stuff, politics, a journal, music recordings and a gig bookings list.
