Techie

Au revoir vista

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

A late night uninstalling vista and re-installing windows XP. I give up after what must be 18 months of struggle, one new laptop and endless bloody tinkering to try and get it working the way I want.
Would I recommend it to anyone? No. If you can avoid it, do. If you must get it, then [...]

Weird duplicate postings

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Not sure why, but I’m getting duplicate postings on this site. There must be something funny going on behind the scenes, and perhaps it’s time for a wordpress upgrade. Grrr… Something to sort out this evening.
Update: update worked. Happy now… back to family guy.

Free Our Bills! (TheyWorkForYou.com)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

TheyWorkForYou is a great resource for seeing how your local MP has been representing you in Parliament. When I last dropped in on their site they were promoting their Free Our Bills! campaign.
Quite sensibly they have been encouraging Parliament to publish proceedings in a way that can be better understood by computers. This might sound [...]

New Layout

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

I’ve changed around the layout of the site - well, to be honest I’ve picked up a new theme on the wordpress website. It was always a bit odd that I was a Labour councillor with a blue website (in an area where we only have Labour and Conservative councillors).
Plus… there’s a bit of space [...]