Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

The uphill struggle to try and get the UAF established in Crawley continued last night at a hastily-convened meeting which was organised by someone from the local SWP/Respect party.
Attendance was poor, but the meeting clashed with the council’s executive meeting and the England/Andorra game, was only notified to a few people, and only with a […]

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At the moment I have Bad Behavior and Spam Karma both turned off while the hunt for the dodgy code goes on. Akismet does a good job but still lets a lot through into the moderation queue for me to sift through. 99% of comments are blatant spam, but I have to scan […]

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Earlier on this evening I was reading about the Navy’s new Type 45 destroyers on Wikipedia.
Alongside all the military jargon about the stealth-like features, radars and missile systems is the information that these are the first class of warship to include e-mail and entertainment systems, including iPod charging points.
Obviously my first reaction is to protest […]

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Yet again some piece of rogue code has been causing Wordpress to misbehave badly enough to practically cripple the server. I don’t know any more details than that really, just that I need to fix it.
So I have stripped Wordpress of everything that I can. The core software is the latest version - […]

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Don’t tell anyone but I have to admit that I really dislike elections, and not just because I usually lose them. I do like knocking on doors and talking to people, thats the best part for me (can’t stand telephone canvassing though), but once a campaign starts and all the bickering kicks in it […]

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Given that Yes was the first band I ever saw live, and that I have 16 CDs (4 of them doubles, several vinyl LPs not yet replaced by CD) and now 10 videos and DVDs it is a little surprising that I did not only not have their most famous/notorious LP (Tales from Topographic Oceans) […]

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Been snotty and dizzy for a week now, but its got worse over the last few days… I think it could even be a case of ‘man flu’, as we like to call every cold we get. Somehow it seems even worse when the sun is shining brightly.

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The local election campaign kicks off this week and, as always, there is a little extra surprise supplied by Crawley.
At the very last minute Crawley council’s very own invisible man, Mike Weatherly, has quit so there will be a by-election at the same time as the regular scheduled elections, and the other parties have to […]

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On saturday afternoon we went up to Camden Lock. I had not been there for years, over 15 years I think. It was great to see Jayne’s reaction to the place with all its interesting clothes shops and endless market stalls.
After a while you recover from the impact of seeing so many shops […]

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One interesting thing I learnt at this meeting on Saturday is a small but significant change to ballot papers.
Previously if you were know as something different to your official name it would appear on the ballot paper as (for example)
Anthony Wedgewood-Benn
commonly known as Tony Benn
But now it will only show what you are commonly […]

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