Here is the news; we’re meeting up on Thursday, the 17th April, after 1900 at the Globe pub in Southwark. Here’s a map; your nearest Tube station is Borough. There is no dress code, but I’ve been asked to put the whole thing under Chatham House rules (you can say what was said, but you…
Read More Announcement: TYR RanterCon, 17th AprilWho’s up for a reader meetup on the evening of the 17th of April in Big London? So far, most of the Danosphere, Charlie Whitaker, EJH Pollard, Alan Beattie and I will be meeting that evening in a pub yet to be determined in the general area of Blackfriars. I predict there will be ale,…
Read More In the Metropolis, a sinister cabal…Dear Lazyweb: I have a mystifying Linux problem. To begin the tale, I’ve been running Mandriva Linux on my laptop since last October with considerable satisfaction; I use KDE and the Metisse 3D window manager. However, I had to disable the ACPI power management support to get the thing working; eventually I grew tired of…
Read More Sometimes I just can’t functionThe traditional TYR Christmas ceasefire will be in force up to the 27th. Not that you’d have noticed the difference lately; but anyway I’ll be back with some thoughts on 2007, the year of delivery (remember that?) for everything we’ve been saying about stupid government IT all the way back to 1999. Meanwhile, something from…
Read More Christmas CeasefireReaders are strongly requested to read this, as well as explanations here, and then vote for Sadly No here. That is all.
Read More Public Service Announcement (Without Guitars)IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN UPDATE – READ THIS NOW The Iraqi Employees campaign lobby of Parliament has been double-booked by Hazel Blears; we are therefore moving it from Committee Room 14 to the Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, in order to avoid the risk of contamination. The times are the same and are 1900-2100, Tuesday, 9th October 2007.…
Read More IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN UPDATE – READ THIS NOWAlexander Harrowell asserts copyright over any and all content on this site. It may be reproduced with his permission, which will under no circumstances be granted to any Associated or Daily Mail & General Trust publication, ever. Further, the operator of the weblog “UK Daily Pundit” is hereby refused permission to link to or quote…
Read More Special notice to Associated Newspapers, DMGT staffSo what did happen with the Ronald Reagan after all? Well, she just called in Pearl Harbour on her way back to the Coast. War Iran a with be will not there. New readers arriving from Making Light/Electrolite are advised to use the “Iran” tag and this AFOE post with real war plans an stuff!
Read More Iran Non-War WatchOK, the Enetation comments are getting too bad to use. There’s no spam protection, and no central moderation page, so it’s not practical to remove comments spam from each of 1,473 threads one by one. By clicking on the permalink at the bottom of each post, you can use the Blogger comments thread, which is…
Read More Admin Notice: Withdrawal of Enetation commentsNote that blogging is currently slow, due to a little project of mine that is taking up spare mindshare. The Guardian Column Generator should be operational by next week or thereabouts. Gah, it’s hard to start programming again, but it’s the satisfaction of craft.
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