Oct

29

Nice…

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According to the UK Copyright Service the duration of copyright in Sound Recordings and broadcasts is:
50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was created, or,if the work is released within that time: 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first released.
Does this, […]

Oct

23

Unrestrained children

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For the benefit of those idiots who still allow their small children to travel unrestrained in their cars, the AA has produced a leaflet and video to illustrate the dangers. If you happen to know any of these idiots, please educate them before they learn the hard way.

Oct

15

Scribus: open source DTP

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Today’s NftP was the first to be produced using Scribus, the free open source DTP package that supports SVG. I have been truly impressed at the power of this application and it truly seems to me that open source software has now come of age. NeoOffice 2 knocked MS Office 2004 off my Christmas […]

May

26

Simon Jenkins: Facts should be taskmasters, and there is no exemption for fiction

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Simon Jenkins of the Guardian writes about “The Da Vinci Code”: “Journalism already has a tough time guarding Fortress Fact from marauders (including its own) until the historians can arrive. To find novelists and film-makers getting in round the back and stealing the treasure is galling. Despite Humpty Dumpty, words do not mean anything we […]

Feb

18

For an elected House of Lords

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Lords Reform Day
“…it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation.”
Preamble to the Parliament Act 1911
This Act, which limits the powers of the House of Lords and commits Britain […]