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Not at all sane. - Lord Matt

Nice one government! A totally bollocks law that can be used to abuse people for profit. Fail! - Lord Matt

Have Euroferries gone to far in forcing two bloggers to print an apology for a comment on a blog neither blogger wrote? One whose only crime was to report on the comment on the other blog. - Lord Matt

From the page: "Leapfish, is predatory, the look for marketers, or the next big company in network marketing. Lets say Lifepath Unlimited, or The Trump Network. They then call these guys up, yes the marketer or new associate in most times have never heard this thing before. So hear is a cool sounding leapfish sales rep selling the technology. Showing the potential new customer that how for $3,000.00 They can buy a key term, in this example we say â€oeLifepath Unlimited” , ok so now its where it gets interesting. The new potential client thinks they are buying the key word from Google, but they are not, they are buying it from leapfish." - Lord Matt

From the page: "Google (GOOG) has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, a strategy that will improve its energy efficiency while making local weather forecasting a larger factor in its data center management." - Lord Matt

Do you know how to work out mathematically where your best traffic comes from? Let me show you. - Lord Matt

The one thing that most of us Linux users miss when leaving Windows behind is that «alt codes» are not supported. Well here is an under documented feature that should allow you to type alt codes and access all of the special characters with Ubuntu, Red Hat or whatever flavour of Linux you play or work with. Windows «Alt Codes» for Linux works like this. - Lord Matt

Geek top is a bit like alltop for geeks only a hell of a lot more interesting, cool and, well, geeky. - Lord Matt

This is far too common in my experience. Shocking endless lists of companies that pay A LOT for a website that turns out to be worthless. - Lord Matt

What evil mind wrote that code? - Lord Matt

Everything the company did. Everything! All of it was in a giant one table database. It was huge. Vast. A malformed delete wiped out the company in one go. Back ups: none-what-so-ever. WTF!!! - Lord Matt

"The Pirate Bay is well-known for hosting lists of websites where people can get pirated copies of movies, music, software and TV shows." Don't talk crap. The Pirate Bay is a BitTorrent Tracker and search engine and it is for this that it is famed. It was not a directory of warez sites as the beeb incorrectly suggest. Why is the BBC getting so crap at reporting the news? - Lord Matt

This has some dire implications. - Lord Matt

This logo is based (strongly) on a design by me! Dead chuffed to be seeing it as the shirt logo. Not so chuffed it ended up so small (should have been on T-shirts but... oh well). Used SVG to make sure it looked good. - Lord Matt

Good. - Lord Matt

From the page: "so that Government information is accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people, I have asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who led the creation of the world wide web, to help us drive the opening up of access to Government data in the web over the coming months. " - Lord Matt

The Guardian is playing King Maker to the Lib Dems this time then? - Lord Matt

How the hell did 8 mins of video cost anyone 250,000? Assuming that you rented offices and hired three staff to make the video and brought new cameras I can only push the cost to 120,000 and that's when I go OTT. I could have produced the videos for 90,000 and that includes a very very healthy set of bonuses to myself. Heck I could have done it on a budget of 40,000 and on that I'd make 1 or 2 every month. Ramp up to 90,000 and you'd see one a week and it'd be more popular. How come governance groups are so heavy anded and expensive with new media? - Lord Matt

It's things like this that make me ashamed to be British. There is no justice here. - Lord Matt

Please share this page and help my boy learn that I love him where-ever he is. - Lord Matt

If you are in the UK then you will probably get called by UPI (UK) Ltd. I do not trust them and it is my opinion that what they are doing is fraud. This is a squidoo lens to try and alert people to what is going on. - Lord Matt

This is so far beyond out of order that words fail me. - Lord Matt

How to get famouse with blogging with The dance of Vroomfondel and Majikthise. Douglas Admas shows us the way. - Lord Matt

They reported 70 Officers were hurt but actually this includes insect bites and heat stroke. Total hurt while in contact with another person... 4. - Lord Matt

Free Landingpage Template (nothing to do with me - I just found it). - Lord Matt

More free landing pages. Again, nothing to do with me I just thought I'd share the find. - Lord Matt

What twitter can be for and how. - Lord Matt

Some fairly funny videos of apes being super heros... it's cute, what can I say. - Lord Matt

This fails because it is a broken idea. The reason it is broken is "need to know" and it holds data that some or all users may not need to know. To try and then filter records by adding logic to the data layer at this stage is foolishness. Oddly facebook have a working system that the government could have paid a much smaller ammount for the right to use. Facebook puts data into nodes at random and these nodes are then polled for the account data. Account data is returned if the two way permissions are recorded and enable such a sharing. If the UK government went for a standard for data sharing and then created a multi-node system you would have several protective layers and any of these could deny access. The local nodes could deny access though a simple bit of paperwork at a national scale logical tests could lock data out based on a simple rule set. If I apply to my local council to have my children's data set to no-one, "contact list only" or some equivalent of "my network"... - Lord Matt

With lightening fast reflexes I managed to snap a screenshot of what happens when I try to submit a new site. It says "Yay you 1xxxth discovery" (green) and shows a web 2.0 style loading image - then the window closes. This crap has been going on for too long please fix your javascript. Thanks. - Lord Matt