As lots of people are saying, it’s bad. I’m not going to pretend otherwise. It gives rise to three issues.
Firstly and in practical terms, I should think that every governmental organisation is currently sending a very pointed letter to every employee about its data protection policy. That might not be a bad thing. I [...]

As many people will have seen, some of the great and the good of the liberal/left of the UK blogosphere have come together to form an uberblog called Liberal Conspiracy, named with tongue firmly in cheek.
It’s raisons d’être are, I think, threefold: firstly, to give the liberal/left region of the UK polity a place to [...]

I put an image in this post that gives a visual representation of the front page of my blog. While everyone seems to find it pretty, not many people knows what it represents, so here is an attempt at an explanation. It may help you to have this image open while you read the below.
When [...]

Unfortunately, I’ve been getting quite a lot of comment spam of late. Wordpress has a simple but effective way of stopping it - it emails me about any post with more than one hyperlink - but I can’t be bothered to keep pressing the spam button. Anyway, I’ve turned the Akismet plug-in on, so there [...]

Just because Enoch Powell was intelligent does not make him any less objectionable; just because he spoke in clipped, educated tones does not make him any less racist; just because he was well-educated does not make him any less wrong.
Enoch Powell made his infamous speech in 1968; early in the speech, he quoted a constituent [...]

I moved from Blogger to Wordpress, I think, reasonably successfully but there was an amount of rewriting code. If anyone sees any errors, omissions, glitches or annoying things that they’d like to kvetch about, feel free to post here. I’d be very grateful.
xD.

The King of Spain, Juán Carlos I de Borbón y Borbón, recently told Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela to, in no uncertain terms, shut up, after the latter called the former Spanish Prime Minister, José María Aznar, a fascist. Now, I am no fan of Aznar, but Chávez’s comments are not just mistaken but actually [...]

No, not for me. A friend of mine has forwarded me this advert from a jobseeker from the Financial Post of Toronto. It is with out question brilliant.

Thanks to Dani.
xD.

This is the Blog of Dave Cole in graphic form, from aharef.info via Tom Paine via Matt Sinclair.

You can make your own for any website at http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/. I particularly like the unfolding effect when you put in ‘http://news.bbc.co.uk’ as the target.
What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and [...]

Kew is remarkably beautiful in the autumn, when the leaves turn a hundred shades of fire. Despite it being the fourth of November, it was warm enough to stop for an ice-cream. There is also an exhibition of Henry Moore sculptures; unfortunately, there were rather too many people in immediate proximity to the statues to [...]