Mar
27
I’ve received a response from the Council to my enquiries about their broken minutes system. They assure me that nothing has changed with the system, which is not just puzzling, but also means that they have nothing that they can correct. So it appears I’m stuck with a very convoluted way of getting the minutes.
However, [...]
Mar
27
The Shambles of the Magistrates Courts
Filed Under Law | 2 Comments
The Diary of a Criminal Solicitor quotes a Sunday Mirror article on the blunders and delays that make up much of the business of the Magistrates Courts.
When I first had to sit through a day’s proceedings at the Belfast Magistrates Courts (to challenge a parking ticket), I was amazed at how shambolic the [...]
Mar
21
The nigov site has been rather lacking in updates to the Belfast City Council minutes section for a while now. Although partially this is down to laziness on my part, the main reason is that the Council seem to have changed their on-line minutes system slightly.
Not content with the plethora of problems previously discussed, the [...]
Mar
15
I’ve been having some more difficulties with BT over the last few days (more details later, when I discover what has actually happened), and I found myself looking at their SMS webpages again.
As regular readers know, shortly after I complained to them about their previous system, whereby you could find out when anyone last paid [...]
Mar
14
Mediawiki spam
Filed Under Wikis, Weblogs and Outliners | 8 Comments
I run several sites off Mediawiki, and the spam problem has been getting progressively worse recently.
Making the wiki ‘registered users only can edit’ helps a bit, but most of the spambots can get around that now. In fact most seem to get around the ‘easy rollback’ of recently registered users changes by creating their spamming [...]
Mar
14
Sharmanka Kinetic Art
Filed Under Life, Technology | 1 Comment
If anyone is visiting Glasgow at any time soon, I would strongly recommend a visit to Sharmanka. Their website is very 1997, and doesn’t really do them justice, but this is a truly amazing collection of pieces created from old sewing machines, bicycles, and other scrap, with hundreds of little carved figures pulling and pushing [...]