I was asked if I wanted to work in Germany, and sadly took too long to say, “Yes”. I was wondering what impact Brexit would have on such an opportunity. If the UK, agrees the Govt’s withdrawal agreement, there is a two year transitional agreement, which I think means that “Freedom of Movement” will continue…
Read moreTrade Union Democracy
I was looking at the way democracy dies in Unions, with a whimper and came across these two articles, Trotskyism and Trade-Union Struggle from marxists.org and the Iron Law of Oligarchy, on Wikipedia. which points at further reading.
Read moreDisguised Employment
I have needed to research the questions surrounding employee status, worker, or contractor status. Here are my notes and links.
Read moreImage Credits
I am building a web site for my business and need to document the image credits, it would seem. Here are my notes …
Read moreBig Data
I am once again trying to write my blog on solutions architecture and the GDPR. I looked up “Data Lake” again and came across some very good resources in a You Tube channel from Intricity. This summarises the design bifurcation between distributed data sources and unified query logic. It’s five years old. He or his…
Read moreWeb Monitoring with Uptime Robot
I have just discovered uptime robot, it monitors the availability and responsiveness of my web sites. It’s simple and free and I am quite excited.
Read moreRaspian & APT
This snip was originally created to document the arse-ache I had building my second Pi; it documented problems with Jesse & Stretch. The current release is buster and so much of this content is deprecated. In April 2020, I had reason to explore the code I use to maintain the currency of the apt cache….
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