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2012 Bradford Hacktionlab Gathering Drupal Session
This year’s winter hacktionlab happened at Bradford’s lovely 1 in 12 Club. Here is my notes/writeup of the Saturday morning Drupal session.
Saturday Morning Drupal Clinic
Our heads were a little muzzy pre-meeting. Fortunately a bit of raveoke livened us up a bit. Mick Fuzz explained the two different approaches that you can take to getting reveoke subtitles showing up in VLC; using seperate mp4 and SRT files and VLC’s autofinding, or embedding both into a matroska container. Read More …- 2012-01-21 15:45:50
- Published: 2012-01-21 15:45:50
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Chart: Who loots more MPs or rioters?
In the followup to the riots that hit the UK earlier in the week, MPs have been trying to out-authoritarian one another. However, we should remember that many of the people doing the name calling here are guilty of some "looting" of their own. I thought it would be of interest to compare their "looting" during the expenses scandal to that of the rioters involved in disturbances in the UK's cities recently. It turns out that MPs do more looting per person than rioters. I am expecting to take delivery of my big society water cannon any day now … Read More …
- 2011-08-12 17:36:22
- Published: 2011-08-12 17:36:22
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Cidered up techs in a field? Must be BarnCamp 2011!
This post is a slightly edited version of the BarnCamp 2011 blog post, which appeared on New Internationalist's tech blog.
I am a big fan of the BarnCamp. I first went along to what was then called the Hacktionlab in 2009, and found a unique combination of stunningly gorgeous countryside, eco-friendly living, and tech activism. I went back in 2010 when the event changed its name to Barncamp 2010 and found a new focus on accessibility for non-techs, introducing a "nerd gag" for excessively jargonistic geekery. Read More …- 2011-06-03 12:35:21
- Published: 2011-06-03 12:35:21
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