London Labour’s Mayoral Candidate Selection

The Labour Party is undertaking a process to choose a candidate to run for Mayor of London. This process is in four parts, Application Stage – now complete Nomination Stage – closes 10th June Selection Panel Stage – currently advertised as complete  on 13th June Voting – starts 12th August, finishes Noon 12th September The…

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SPARQL on WordPress

For various reasons I needed to look at SPARQL again. What’s the easiest way to put it up?, Here! I’ve been working with LH-Tools which is commented on at its authors site, and LH-RDF. I did not get this to finish satisfactorily, mainly based on my lack of SPARQL skills. May 2015 LH-Tools implements a…

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Disqus and Ghostery

Disqus needs to be whitelisted in Ghostery for it to work properly. (I have white listed the site rather than approved the specific cookies/trackers). It can stop you performing the login.

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Zhjaeve Unveiled

In the early parts of Act III of NWN2, Zhjaeve, the only cleric you are offered as a party member, seems to be pretty necessary. However, the game software as delivered doesn’t implement armour for her in-game avatar; a mod has been built that this to happen, the default is not. This post records my…

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VLOOKUP vs INDEX ( MATCH)

How awesome is this! Excel =INDEX, is a matrix retrieve i.e. =INDEX(array, row, col) retrieves an entry from the two dimensional array. If we combine this with MATCH which returns a row number we can use these functions instead of =VLOOKUP, its allegedly faster too. MATCH operates on a column or linguistically a list.

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