The company I work for seems to be heading towards a strike
The issue that’s causing the problem can be boiled down to money, but in particular it’s changes to the pension arrangements. The pension fund, like most other large companies in the UK is now underfunded by a large amount - an amount [...]

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Rich has released Feathercast episode #6. It’s a very different episode, with Sally turning the tables and interviewing Rich. I think it’s interesting and worthwhile to release, but Rich wasn’t so sure. It’ll be interesting to see what people think - so don’t be shy and post a comment letting us know if it was [...]

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Jam House Edinburgh.

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I’ve been playing more and more with RDF technologies over the past 6 months and have started to see a lot of potential uses for the technology within the ASF. I’ve created a few demonstrations in the site-dev sandbox I have at http://asylum.zones.apache.org/, but these are very much still in development. The one that I [...]

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Wet day, but warm.

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Feathercast is up to episode #5! Amazing to think just how fast we’ve gotten there and very gratifying to hear all the positive things people have said about it. Rich has episodes #6 and #7 in the bag and ready to reveal, but we’re going to pace ourselves We’ve always said that we weren’t [...]

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I went to buy something via eBay tonight. As usual it tells me to pay via PayPal. I’ve used it before - should be easy right?
The amount is slightly more than I’ve bought items for before, but not too much higher. Seemingly it exceeds some sort of threshold so now I’m unable to pay! Yep. [...]

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I’ve been looking at how to combine multiple sources forXML into a single document using XSL. It’s certainly possible and using various tricks I can get a nicely ordered output of the aggregate of the data. Trying to use the standard functions such as preceding-sibling fail though as the context isn’t unified. This makes the [...]

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Having heard that this combo resulted in superior eye candy I decided to give it a try. As usual the Ubuntu forums had agreat howto, so it looked as though it wouldn’t be too complex. Following through the howto it all seemed to progress as it should. The system is amd64 and the graphics [...]

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