Archive for July, 2005
July 27th, 2005
Making Poverty history?
On the BBC news just now, a report that the British government has sent 40 tonnes of aid to Niger to help the 3.5 million starving people.
(40 tonnes) / 3 500 000 = 11.4285714 grams of food per person.
I don’t think there’s anything else to say.
July 20th, 2005
HP laserjet 1022 with Mac OS 10.4.2 + Airport Express problem
I keep meaning to resolve to post more of the endless linux/Mac OS X tweaking and general trouble fixing that is part of my life. Giving back to the community kindathing.
Usually I don’t, because the thing takes days or weeks to fix and I’m not good at keeping the right kind of notes as […]
July 6th, 2005
European software patents dead: not a slow news day by any means
So with London losing the best bit of green space in the east of the city to a coach park, and the G8 summi^H^H^Hriot, we might just miss out on this astonishing result. Well done to all the open sorcerers who wrote about, lobbied, phoned, or otherwise protested to help prevent this legislation.
July 6th, 2005
TheyWorkForYou.com wins
New Statesman TheyWorkForYou award
Originally uploaded by philgyford.
the New Statesman New Media Award for Contribution to Civic Society. This is the third time a site I’m involved with has won this award, after Stand.org.uk in 1998, and faxyourmp.com in 2000. At least I think it was […]
July 5th, 2005
Technorati Greasemonkey script
Matthew Gertner and I have collaborated again to bring you a Technorati Greasemonkey script
It queries the technorati database (via a proxy that protects my technorati API key), and adds a block of links to blogs linking to the page you’re on. It loads the links asynchronously, which is clever and nice. To make the links […]