Voting TaKtiX

He’s not just tired, but Chicken Yoghurt has it on very good authority that he’s also a liar.

I find at times when blogging here that some topics just don’t fit the raison d’etre of this blog. So when I got an email from DK asking if I’d like to contribute ocassionally? Well, why not?

I also updated the personal space blog, no particular reason, just something I figured ought to be used a bit more, it’ll probably end up being a linklog but, well, I have no sense of control. Don’t worry, not going to be blogging here less, just generally blogging more, I enjoy it too much.

Another item prompts me to get around to installing Ubuntu; Governments should ban Linux | Samizdata.net:

We need a licensing scheme, headed by the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, for all programming tools so that only trusted individuals may use them, and that inappropriate use of them is communicated via the internet to the government. To put it simply, either Linux dies - or the whole of human creativity will become a stagnant swamp.

They had me worried for a few seconds. Only a few mind…

So Gordon Brown is calling for a something like a Britain Day.

OK, so I’ll stick my neck out and say that Gordon Brown has just had a good idea. Well, perhaps not the day itself, which will probably just devolve into ‘going down the pub’ day, but a good idea in that the fact that Brown is interested in talking about British identity and multiculturalism shows that at least he is concerned about the issue and might like to do something about it.

However, a Britain Day could be a good idea if we don’t let it devolve into something pointless. (more…)

Nosemonkey asked Chris Who-hne? to which I now have a proper answer as, unlike the estimable Mr Matthews, (more…)