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Monthly Archives April 2010

Digital Economy? Disingenuous Explanation.

It’s election time in the UK. This will probably not be the last political post I make here in the next few weeks. At least this one is still heavily tech-related. It’s about the Digital Economy Act, which I wrote an angry letter to my MP about. (Incidentally – no response to that latter, although [...]

Posted 15 April 2010 † John § Cryptography § Hosting § Politics § Psychology § Security § Social § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Picky Eater

I’m a picky eater. I have a very limited range of foods that I can eat without making comedy ‘that’s disgusting’ faces. I’m not like the guy on ‘Freaky Eaters’ who only eats cheese, but it’s definitely far less than a normal range. For the last 30 years it’s not really bothered me that much, [...]

Posted 12 April 2010 † John § Mind Tricks § Psychology ‡ Comments (6) °

One Line Ruby Webserver

This weekend I’ve been working on an iPhone app which is entirely HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I’ve been missing script/server as an easy way to spawn a web server for testing on an iPhone. There’s a Python one-liner I usually use for this sort of thing, but I don’t otherwise use Python and figured it [...]

Posted 11 April 2010 † John § Ruby § Software § Technology ‡ Comments (1) °

Letter to Willie Rennie, MP for Dunfermline and West Fife

Dear Willie Rennie, I’m deeply disturbed that despite a three-page letter you sent in reply to my query concerning the controversial Digital Economy Bill, you did not make the effort to attend the second reading of this bill on the evening of the 6th of April. This bill is being pushed through despite potentially draconian [...]

Posted 07 April 2010 † John § Politics ‡ Comments (2) °

Experiment in ecommerce: FAIL

We recently tried an experiment in selling stuff on the internet. It was a bit of a departure from our normal area of expertise, so it was definitely heavy on the ‘experiment’. I’ll say it right at the start: it was a complete and unmitigated failure, but not in the way I was expecting at [...]

Posted 04 April 2010 † John § Business § Money ‡ Comments (2) °