FOAF

I have just repaired my FOAF file. I used the following resources to do so. Others are still campaigning for an open web, so I will stay there too. If I know you and want me to hold your entry in my file, please make a comment or email me with your “See Also” URL.

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APM

Seems like the Applications Performance Monitoring landscape has changed since last time I looked, here’s some links, including a route to the Gartner Report.

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Labour’s NEC Elections 2016

The Labour Party NEC elections have started. Ballot papers are being issued now, to arrive by email by 16th July and by post by 22nd July. They are to be returned by Noon 5th August. I expect them to be both online or paper ballots. This post is designed to be informative and not polemical.

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Labour’s Chakrabarti Inquiry

I don’t know how popular my hosting of the LP rules has become, but the Labour Party doesn’t really get permalinks. I have decided in the interests of informed debate to mirror Labour’s Chakrabarti Inquiry findings. Labour’s launch of the report was a debacle and fell foul of the dead cat on the table disruption.

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Digg Labs Visualisation (2007)

While transcribing my Sun/Oracle blog to this space,  I coped an article which pointed at now defucnt Digg Labs visualisation tools, I said, I also took the opportunity to publicise/review some of digglabs visualisation experiments. big spy, stack and swarm. I have posted the screen shots I used here.

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Naymz & Klout

I am mailed once/month by Naymz who tell me that they have discovered something interesting about me. I often login to see, but it rarely seems to be that interesting. I have not connected all my  networks to it, keeping it out of Yahoo and Facebook which I treat as mainly private networks. This week…

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Windows 8.1 apps

Microsoft are encouraging the use of online accounts with windows. Not everyone wants this. I was asked by someone without an account, who uses so-called local accounts how to get into their mail when challenged for a password.

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Ginger

I have been interested in trying to grow ginger for a while. I have consolidated my notes on the subject in this post.

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Etherium

I attended a webinar on Ethereum, they argue they have extracted the block chain management functionality from bitcoin and implemented what they call a consensus machine. Here are some links that I was pointed at or found.

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