I have to let the readers know that Tony tried to ...
I have to let the readers know that Tony tried to wind me up after reading the article by saying that he agreed with it all. Grrr.....
read moreI have to let the readers know that Tony tried to wind me up after reading the article by saying that he agreed with it all. Grrr.....
read moreReading http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/conformancing reminded me of a similar thought I had. There are plenty of things that are socially unacceptable, but that are not morally unacceptable. I think that behaviour that fits into this category is disquieting because it implies that the person might disregard all …
read moreLiving to over 145 years, flying carpets, a year of continuous rain followed by 10 years of drought. These preposterous things occur in One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I'm literal minded, and so I also found difficult all the premonitions and apparitions and such.
Generation after …
read moreI've added mapping to The Elected. I've only mapped one constituency so far. As it's a wiki, anyone can add mapping data to a constituency. Let me know if you try it and have any problems.
read moreTo get an XSL stylesheet to output XML with JavaScript in it, do this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&t;
<xsl:output method="xml"
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Andy's pointed me to this Economist article on the ethical buying of food. There are several different issues involved:
We should make sure that poor people don't have to pay tax. At the moment we pay means-tested benefits to the poor, while also charging them VAT. This is bad because it is bureaucratic and creates perverse incentives. Abolishing VAT would be funded by:
read moreI've released a new version of The Elected. Have a look and let me know what you think. I've reworked it a bit to make it more Restful. The thing about The Elected is that it's a wiki, but it's also structured. Whereas Wikipedia is a wiki of a filesystem …
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