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Re: Is Bitcoin legal?

Will Daniels — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:34:54 -0000

[misunderstood, ignore me]

Re: Scottish independence would leave Trident dead – and the MoD don’t care

Will Daniels — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:23:27 -0000

In the event of independence Scotland is not going to suddenly raise it's own army overnight, nor is it likely to leave itself undefended. So the question of shared defence capabilities will have to be answered IF it ever happens.

It's surely going to be a difficult and complicated matter that would depend on so many details of yet-to-be-negotiated arrangements between the two states that it would surely be pointless to try drawing up plans already for every possible political arrangement that could happen.

And anyway, last I heard, the MoD favours a strategy of airborne nuclear weapons, Trident is more of a political weapon than a military one. So it is possible that they _really_ don't care.

Re: Geeks: A solar powered bench for all your battery and wifi needs

Will Daniels — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:58:42 -0000

Looks great! Any more news on this? Is it likely to be produced?

Re: Why build a new site for Birmingham City Council?

Will Daniels — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:42:31 -0000

An excellent idea I think! And not only as a response to one particular poor technology investment...seems to me that council websites are ideal for community projects more generally. Imagine if that much money were to be spent helping to sponsor a community-led technology project to develop and maintain the council's website? That would add a whole lot more value, in terms of fostering a community spirit as well as helping people around Birmingham get together to learn/practice/teach tech skills, than wasting it on an overpriced commercial project.

I'd love to see Birmingham officially sponsor such a community-driven technology project...would say far more about the city as a pioneer in the digital age than just blindly and needlessly approving a large budget for building a website...this is exactly the kind of cultural leadership councilors tend to lack.

Re: Joomla! 1.5 – Generating raw ouput

Will Daniels — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:11:41 -0000

Thanks for the guidance here! The structure of the whole thing is much clearer to me now. One problem though...

Is format=raw supported when set in the component's router? It still seems to be trying to load the HTML view (which doesn't exist) unless I add format=raw explicitly to the query string. Am I missing something here?