2008 – Page 12 – The Yorkshire Ranter

September 14, 2008 by yorksranter 3 comments

They have wakened the timeless Things; they have killed their father Time

More China convergence blogging. Declan McCullagh reports on efforts by the US and China to sneak something nasty into the ITU standardisation process, through a committee that doesn’t publish its documentation or let anyone else in the room. But the Chinese appear to be the ones leaning forward; The Chinese author of the document, Huirong…

September 14, 2008 by yorksranter 0 comments

tomorrow’s public inquiry today

Is anyone else disturbed by the fact Ed Balls appears to have been replaced by Chris Dillow? Ed Balls, the schools secretary and only member of the Co-operative party in the cabinet, will today propose that 100 schools over the next two years become co-operative trust schools owned and controlled by the local community. He…

September 14, 2008 by yorksranter 3 comments

Not Just Armies, But Antonovs

Ooh, more Iran-war nonsense, this time from none other than mouthpieceful Russia Today, via this thread. There seems to be a meme floating around that there was a war between Russia and Georgia because the Russians intervened to prevent the Americans using Georgian airbases to attack Iran (obviously, a war with Iran is the universal…

September 12, 2008 by yorksranter 0 comments

In which we review the Organise project

Met up with regular reader and Linux hacker Duane Griffin to discuss the ORGANISE project . As a result, here’s a new and much amended specification that supersedes the first one.

September 11, 2008 by yorksranter 0 comments

quick vik

If you’ve been following the Viktorfeed, you may have noticed that something’s been emerging; Tahmid Air (ICAO: THM) had been flying occasionally between Sharjah and Almaty, but since early August it’s started to generate more and more movements (the maximum was achieved on the 10th August with 12 flights) to more and more interesting places.…