Dungeons & Dragons

I bought Ben a copy of the AD&D 5e Starter Pack for Xmas, let’s hope he reciprocates by asking me to join in, although how to do that while’s he’s abroad might be fun … need to check out NWN worlds. Here are some notes….

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Lewisham Council’s Democracy Review

Lewisham Council, are looking at their constitution to see if they make it more democratic. They are running a consultation  which started in 2018 and is planned to finish and I propose to submit some evidence. I thought I understood how it worked, but I don’t; here are my notes. 

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Measuring Democracy

Often one finds that people argue their solution is more democratic; how does one know? Some political scientists have looked at measuring democracyness, here’s what I have found.

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Corbyn’s 10 Point Plan

In the 2016 Labour Leadership campaign, Jeremy Corbyn made 10 pledges, which were then adopted by Conference 2016. The pledges have disappeared from the site, but I checked on the wayback machine and have made this image from that site’s pledge page.

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Easy Index

While experimenting with YOP Poll, I came across Easy Index, which looked rather pretty, although it depends on on the featured images chosen. I made a category index to see how it looked. This might be better if one of the first plugins chosen as it would allow you to chose the featured images more…

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Flickr Slide Shows

This page documents my use of widgets, HTML and plugins to display flickr slide shows on my blogs. As at August 2021, I am using wordpress plugins see below/overleaf or on the blog wordpress now support flickr URLs with a native embed.  I just have to paste the URL. Here are my notes, developed over…

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CISSP 8 Domains

The (ISC)2 amended the domains within the CISSP in 2015. This document, the  CISSP 8 Domain Refresh Summary Guide 15042015 summarises the changes.

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Flash

It won’t go away! How to display an alternate image for one’s flash object. Actually I gave up, I decided that the browser default was more informative but here’s my notes.

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BBC Funding

I have taken an interest in the BBC’s financial balance of trade on Intellectual Property. Their annual report can be found here … while the National Audit Office undertook a landscape review on their commercial services.  The annual report is a typical haven’t we done well and getting the answers to the questions I am…

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