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Danegeld and riots for all reasons

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So almost a week since the looting and huge swathes of forest has been sacrificed to discuss the cause of the unrest and more importantly who was to blame. I am of course going to add to the sound and fury being generated, mainly because some of the commentary has rather tickled my sense of the absurd. One of the early “causes” of the looting proffered by the punditry, was that youth centres had been shut down and more people had said if the youth centres shut down they’d be trouble/riots/the end of civilisation as we know it. Now to … Continue reading →

World IPv6 day

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I do apologise to wander once more onto geekier topics, but largely un-noticed today is World IPv6 Day. Which was hoping to make people more aware of IPv6 and the need to get ready for it – I’m not sure how well it’s done outside of people who already knew about it. Outside of the techy press the Gaurdian picked up on it and apparently Ed Vaizey said something about it. Despite it being a very low key event this is something you need to care about, as it will actually be terribly important. So get a cup of tea … Continue reading →

Automatic fear updates

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Quite a while back I bemoaned the fact that MI5 weren’t kind enough to provide an RSS feed of the current UK threat level so I wrote a little script so I could know in real time if I should be more or less afraid, and so make sure that my fear and paranoia were at government approved levels at all times. Well it seems that they’ve finally* got round to providing an official RSS feed which is very nice of them and far more reliable than my efforts. You can find it here: https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/threat-level-rss.html Note it’s available over both … Continue reading →