W8.1 Certificate bug

I took my tablet to Labour Party Conference last month but when I turned IE on I got the “certificate revoked” error; this only displayed when opening IE on the desktop. I found this thread on microsoft.com which blamed KB4516067. Here are my notes …

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Labour 19 & Brexit

I wrote a piece on the LP Brexit debate at #lab19 and in the next few days a number of people commented on the debate, I thought I’d make a little wiki article, bookmarking them; some of these articles are mirrors made by me. As ever, for more, see overleaf/below … 

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Trimming Youtube with arguments

This was written in 2019; when I looked at this in 2023, Youtube had created a clip function, which allows this to be done much more easily. I have amended the page; I wanted to cut some speeches out of a Youtube Video of Conference, I missed the opportunity to do so for the GMB…

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International Trade and MMT

I have now re-read Chapter 8 of Reclaiming the State and this is what I think they say on International Trade, I plan to simplify it further. I have tried not to insert the anti-arguments, but I am not sure that I agree that “Sudden Stops” can only happen to poor countries. Also if the…

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On Presidentialism

While writing and thinking about the democratic legitimacy of the Referendum, I discovered the work of Juan J Linz. This article initially hosted my thoughts on Linz’s views on the US Presidential system and its clones. I returned to it in the Autumn of 2021 when questions of why the founding fathers did it this…

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On the fitness of Keith Vaz

Over the summer of 2019, Keith Vaz reused his medical condition to have decisions of Labour’ NEC Disputes Committee reviewed. It’s not the first time and raises the question of whether you can be partially sick. Obviously in employment, one can be recommended ‘light duties’ or employers can be made to make “reasonable adjustments” in…

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Card Processing for SMEs

I have been asked to look at providing a voluntary association with advice on the desirability of adopting a card processing solution. Here as ever, are my notes and links. …

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Ink Stains

How to deal with/remove ink stains. Treat an ink stain on a shirt by first wetting it with some white vinegar, then rubbing in a paste of two parts vinegar to three parts cornstarch. Let the paste thoroughly dry before washing the item.

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About MMT

Some left economists have started to critique MMT, I have written a recent blog article but like the rabbit hole to Wonderland, there’s always more. Here are my notes.

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Baldurdash 301

This was the original and first unofficial fixpack for the Baldur’s Gate family of games. I refer to it in this wiki on  a couple of my BG2 articles. It has now moved and can be found at Gibberlings 3 and has been renamed “fixpack”. The old site is available at the wayback machine.

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NWN2: the Harp & the Chrysanthemum

I decided to play this. I downloaded it from its home page but the game has been updated. Here are my  notes, which talks a bit about version control but also includes some hints. For more, including the play hints, see below/overleaf.

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