Gary Younge on Labour’s scare tactics. There is as much veracity to the claim that voting for the Liberal Democrats will let the Tories through the back door as there was that Saddam Hussein was 45 minutes from killing us all.
More BBC RSS
Buried a few screens down on this page is some interesting news about the BBC’s RSS feeds. The key points are: A loosening of the terms of use to allow all sites to use the feeds, instead of the current “personal use only” license A feed for most recently published stories Feeds based on user-defined… Continue reading More BBC RSS
Manifesto
I was starting to think that our road ha fallen off the election map. Apart from a few leaflets we got through the door earlier this week I hadn’t seen any sign of any campaigning activity. Then today, as we get back from a walk on the common, we find that the Labour party have… Continue reading Manifesto
New Design
As you’ll see (well those of you who don’t read this through an RSS reader) I’ve given this site a bit of a redesign. I like the idea of going back to something pretty basic. It’s still not quite how I want it so I’ll be tuning it over the next few days and weeks.… Continue reading New Design
Firefox vs IE on O’Reilly Sites
Tim O’Reilly writes about the percentages of various web browsers that are use to access the various oreillynet.com web sites. They are currently showing Internet Explorer at 54.66% and Firefox at 35.08%. O’Reilly’s audience do, of course, tend towards the geekier end of the web browsing audience but they tend to lead where the rest… Continue reading Firefox vs IE on O’Reilly Sites
Vote for Lib Dems will not let in Tories
An article on the front page of today’s Independent investigates the Labour party’s claim that protest voters run the risk of opening the door to a Tory government. Their conclusion? It’s bollocks. It would take a swing of 11.5% away from Labour for Tony Blair to lose his commons majority, but even that wouldn’t leave… Continue reading Vote for Lib Dems will not let in Tories
Hospital Appointment
Back to the hospital again yesterday for an x-ray and another appointment with the chest specialist. The x-ray apparently shows that my pneumothorax (collapsed lung) which I got from the broncoscopy is almost completely recovered. The full results from the bronoscopy aren’t in yet, but the results they have so far are all pointing to… Continue reading Hospital Appointment
The Results Must Get Through
On election night, Guardian Unlimited will, of course, have all of the results on the site as they are announced. Something as important as this obviously requires people to be here overnight ensuring that everything goes smoothly. And it seems that I’m going to be one of this crack technical team. I’m looking forward to… Continue reading The Results Must Get Through
Don’t Mention The War
Tony Blair is banging on again about how a protest vote against the Iraq war will let in a Tory government. Let’s get a few things straight. If I don’t vote Labour, then it’s not just a protest vote against the war in Iraq. It’s also a protest vote against foundation hospitals, ID cards, top-up… Continue reading Don’t Mention The War
No Point Voting in Brent South
If you’re in the London constituency of Brent South then there’s apparently no point in voting on May 5th. Dawn Butler is standing to replace the existing Labour MP, Paul Boeteng, and her new web site is already declaring her as the winner. I realise that a 17,000 majority might give you a certain amount… Continue reading No Point Voting in Brent South