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These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.

Cherry Blossom and Reminiscence

Written on Sunday 18 Jul 2010

Last night I ended up watching the last few episodes of an anime series called Cardcaptor Sakura, which by my reckoning is at least ten years since I watched it all the way through as a kid. At the time, I suppose the main character’s relentlessly chirpy attitude had quite...

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Raoul Moat and the Facebook of Lulz

Written on Saturday 17 Jul 2010

For some unimaginable reason, two weeks and counting after the whole Raoul Moat business kicked off, it’s still plastered across the papers. Why? Because someone created a Facebook tribute page. Facebook refused to take it down. Then the owner removed it. Then someone made another one. Then the Prime Minister...

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The Technology of Westminster Hubble

Written on Monday 12 Jul 2010

For anyone interested (yes this is mostly for you, @HolyHaddock), Westminster Hubble is written in a combination of PHP and JavaScript, with a MySQL database as its backend. Most of the clever work happens in the background, set off by a number of cron jobs with various tasks such as...

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Announcing: Westminster Hubble!

Written on Monday 12 Jul 2010

Ladies and gentlemen of the blogosphere, I am proud to announce the release of a new website. This is what I have been winding up most of my Twitter followers for the last two months by referring to it only as “Super Secret Project #1”. Its name is Westminster Hubble....

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The Open Government we Campaigned For?

Written on Friday 2 Jul 2010

This morning, Liberal Democrat supporters and others unfortunate enough to have made it onto Nick Clegg’s mailing list received an e-mail from the Deputy Prime Minister announcing the Your Freedom website. Which is great, although a good 24 hours late. But later in the e-mail, he says: This is the...

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Farewell, Dynamic Democracy

Written on Thursday 1 Jul 2010

Back in April, the Digital Economy Bill was rushed through the wash-up procedure of the outgoing government without the due debate and consideration that I and others believe such a far-reaching bill deserved. My disillusionment with the government decision-making process over the following week led me to set up and...

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This is your Brain on Electrodes

Written on Wednesday 30 Jun 2010

Two interesting articles surfaced on the internet today that have resulted in rampant frothing from my location. The first, linked by @CampaignReboot, is this: “A Pacemaker for your Brain”. The chip referred to in the article is implanted into the patient’s body, with electrodes placed deep within the brain. The...

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Preying on the Mantis

Written on Tuesday 29 Jun 2010

In Douglas Carswell MP’s blog post “Is Mantis going to fly?”, he bemoans the amount of money the Ministry of Defence have spent funding BAE’s Mantis unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), suggesting instead that we should not have invested in it and should instead have bought existing off-the-shelf UAVs, by which...

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Game Recommendations Please!

Written on Monday 28 Jun 2010

A job for bored lazywebbers: What with Saudi Arabia recently having declared software piracy to be a criminal offence punished by imprisonment, there are certain kinds of DS cartridges that I would be unwilling to take into the country! I will however be taking my DS, my 2nd gen iPod...

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When Mark met David

Written on Sunday 27 Jun 2010

After the recent visit of Mark “I’m the CEO… bitch” Zuckerberg to No. 10 Downing Street, Jeremy Hunt, the secretary of state for culture and media, tweeted: Just met Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook. Really smart guy with some good ideas on improvement digital engagement in policy making. (Source) Could...

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