Eli Rabett has a collection of links to John Fleck’s blogs on the incredible project to send an artificial spring flood down the Colorado River’s delta. Go, read. But the really fascinating thing is the political and diplomatic process that brought it about. I’ve occasionally said that people don’t fight wars over water anywhere near…
Read More Bringing water to the tableWhat links all these items? YouGov – 56% support rent controls. 33% against. Tories are going to have to come with a new attack line… — roadto326 (@roadto326) May 4, 2014 No, its not a "lurch to the Left" : even 52% of Tory voters support renationalisation of rail and energy .. pic.twitter.com/ZEfDWMeNXX — Labour…
Read More The politics of control, or what Labour can learn from the ‘kippersSo #BeatPhil. This came up on twitter last night, but it’s been annoying me for a while. Alternatively, #BeatPhil by rejecting the implied link between income and human worth pic.twitter.com/8bV7GNuKK3 — Nathan Midgley (@nathanmesq) May 9, 2014 “Phil” is a character the London School of Business & Finance’s ad agency has come up. We are…
Read More Don’t beat Phil.I’ve recently seen someone from the Satellite Applications Catapult come up on the UKNOF mailing list, asking about how best to get dark fibre from their Harwell offices into London with a view to distributing lots of satellite imagery. Obviously a CDN is the way to go, but the first thing that came to mind…
Read More Satellites to new heightsIs there any way to move an extended Linux partition? GParted promises to, but insists on claiming that the thing is mounted although it isn’t (because it has the same UUID as another on a different disk). parted doesn’t mind that, but returns an error message “Error: can’t move an extended partition”. It also doesn’t…
Read More can’t move an extended partitionOK, does anyone have comments on this week’s agenda? As usual, material will be collecting here.
Read More Open newslist, the thirdFrom the wrong club website: The action kicks off on Thursday June 5 at the Select Security Stadium where the Sky Sports cameras will be on hand to capture a repeat of the 1937 Challenge Cup final, Widnes Vikings v Keighley Cougars (8.00pm). It is, too; somehow I’d completely missed that it’s a repeat of…
Read More quarter finalSomeone tweeted Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ad for Antarctic explorers. Manliest thing in the history of manly manliness. Also the Britishest. pic.twitter.com/dtyrEEWCAN — Lucy Wainwright (@Whoozley) May 4, 2014 Cool. Not to say chilly. But it immediately made me want to post the same text to a variety of different job sites. Monster. Taskrabbit. Craigslist. You…
Read More An experimentBizarre question in a Labour Party survey: we’d like to know how you feel about our values as a nation. Please complete this sentence: “Above all, I believe Britain should be…” The options were: Compassionate Diverse Fair Pioneering Respectful What are they up to? Presumably “Respectful” is meant to identify Hazel Blears fans, the sort…
Read More Respectful. Diverse. Compassionate. Fluffy. ThunkfulTony Blair: He called on leaders to consider the “absurdity” of spending billions of dollars on security against an ideology which is being “advocated” in the schools and institutions of “countries with whom we have intimate security and defence relationships”. “Some of those countries of course wish to escape from the grip of this ideology,…
Read More A bit of retro Tony Blair blogging