Tony Locke - misc category

Getting rid of Google Analytics

Tue 22 May 2018

I don't want my projects to track users, so I'm getting rid of Google Analytics. I've gone on to my Google Analytics account and found 7 tracking codes that I've set up.

The first one is the code for OwnId, which was a website that made it easy to use a custom host name as your OpenId. OpenId never really took off, email addresses are easier as an ID than host names. The code is in an SVN repository on Google Code, and I've removed the tracking id from Google Analytics.
I've got Google Analytics tracking ID set up for my old blog. In the blog settings it's not activated though. I've deleted the tracking id from Google Analytics now.
MtrHub is a website I made for keeping track of utility meter readings. Looking at the code and the website I don't think it currently uses Google Analytics. I've deleted teh tracking id form Google Analytics now.
There's also a tracking id for the http://www.own-id.com/. That's closed now so I've deleted the tracking id.
Polifesto is a website for anyone to write a political manifesto. It doesn't look like it uses Google Analytics at the moment. I've deleted its tracking id.
My old website which http://www.tlocke.org.uk used to point to, apparently had a tracking id. The site on Google Pages in GSUite. I've turned off Google Pages for tlocke.org.uk. I've deleted its tracking id.
Finally, my maths website, doesn't use Google Analytics any more, so I've deleted its tracking id.

That was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

And now I've deleted my Google Analytics account!

Non-tracking blog

Sun 06 May 2018

My website and blog were hosted by Google, which tracks people on an industrial scale. So I've now moved to GitHub Pages using a site that's statically generated using Pelican. GitHub Pages have better privacy than Google, but the deeper point is that a static site stored in a git …

On URLs

Fri 01 January 2016

Trailing slashes

According to RFC 3986 the following two URLs are not necessarily equivalent:

http://gigask.foo/organizations/3
http://gigask.foo/organizations/3/

But most users would think the two were equivalent. What's to be done? I think the RFC should have said that the first should be normalized …

House Manual

Sat 22 March 2008

Recycling

There are 3 rubbish containers:

Black Box

This is in the cupboard under the stairs and there's a list of what can be put in it. For tin cans, bottles etc, make sure they've been cleaned in the dishwasher before you put them in.

Green Bin

This is the …

Haskell

Thu 20 March 2008

An aide memoire.

l = [1, 2, 3]

All elements must be of same type. Length doesn't affect the type.

areaCirc r = pi * r^2

Type names always start with a capital letter.

Parametric polymorphism (generics)

length :: [a] -> Int

Type constraint after :: and before =>

(+) :: (Num a) => a -> a -> a

Num is …

Earliest Memories

Tue 18 March 2008

Gallum

When I was born we lived on a narrow boat. I can't remember anything from this time.

Ensley Gardens

Or 'Ensley Gargens' as we said as kids, and my parents picked up. I can remember walking in from the back garden, crossing the threshold of the door, with the …

Creationism

Mon 17 March 2008

I'm about to go to a talk by Stuart Burgess on Intelligent Design. It seems to me that one of the reasons why evolution is a better theory than ID is because ID begs the question, 'Who designed the designer?'. Burgess would probably reply that if there are instances where …

Creation Of Money

Sun 16 March 2008

Joe writes:

Tony,
Watch this video:
http://hiddensecretsofmoney.com/videos/episode-4
It explains what I was talking about with banks creating most of the money supply.
Cheers

Tony writes:

I got to 9:41 into the video and found the bit that I disagreed with.
So I agree with the …