I’ve been meaning to write rather more about the upcoming General Election, but don’t seem to have had time. First a few observations about the current government and how they were elected last time … Labour got 41% of the vote and picked up two-thirds of the seats, LibDems got about 18% of the vote… (read more)

A large amount of free and open-source software is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). All of my software is. The GPL is not an “end-user” license in the same way that licenses for commercial software are. This is because the GPL license actually affects modifying and distributing of the software, not use…. (read more)

We are moving to new premises in June. We are starting to set up the new network and will be buying some new servers. One of the most important things about a server is its name, so I thought I’d ask around for some suggestions for naming these new servers. Unlike some system admins who… (read more)

I know of at least two Liverpool fans who read this, so you may find the following of interest: 1978: Welsh Grand Slam. Pope Dies. Liverpool win European Cup; 2005: Welsh Grand Slam. Pope Dies. ??? Or, if that’s not convincing enough: 1981: Prince Charles gets married. Ken and Deirdre marry on The Street. Liverpool… (read more)

It seems I’m not having time to write proper posts here at the moment, so here’s a quick summary. Good things: Discovering that the central IT services for the local University (onto whose network we will be moving shortly) are very competent, very helpful and properly organised; The new series of Dr Who, despite Billie… (read more)

Haven’t posted much here for a while. I’ve got stuff to write about work, Dr Who, couple of rants, something about the nature of online communities … Will try to get around to doing some or all of those … Meanwhile, here’s some music …