Monthly Archive for August, 2006

Anonymity, the confessional and, um, me.

By NL on 18/08/2006. 3 Comments

[edited 19 Aug]

A disclaimer – Friday evening, wine etc.

One of the odd revenges of old media against the upstarts appears to be the revelation of the real person behind the anonymous or pseudonymous blog. This blog is the latest victim of the dramatic expose. There is, of course, a huge amount of hypocrisy involved in this, given the anonymous diaries, reviewers and fake sheiks littering the inkies.

I’m not going to comment on the fact that it is particularly blogs about an active sexual existence by women that are the prime target for, erm, unveiling, beyond suggesting that apparently witch finding lives on. The very clear feminist … Read the full post

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Of urban CLANS

By NL on 17/08/2006. 0 Comments

Interesting whispers are circulating about the planned direction for civil legal aid funding, previously discussed here.

The initial plan for Community Legal Networks, or CLANS, was that these would be supported for rural areas and advice deserts. Firms could associate so that specialist provision could be shared over a wider geographic area. I still think that this won’t work in the rural/desert areas.

But maybe wisdom has crept in concerning the urban areas. Previously, the idea was that large, all providing firms would be the best route for the kind of ‘holistic’ approach the LSC wanted. This was doomed to failure, certainly over the timeframe envisaged. There just aren’t … Read the full post

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We apologise for the technical problems

By NL on 14/08/2006. 0 Comments

Oh dear, oh dear. All it takes is for me to go away for few days (very pleasant, thank you for asking) and a corrupt mysql table makes the impressive edifice that is Nearly Legal collapse into a non-functional mess.

It has taken a little while to restore it. No, I didn’t have backups, so that is a lesson learnt, painfully. Retreiving past posts was a difficult labour, involving much swearing, but they are there now.

I’m just off to backup the database and reinstall some of the twiddly bits, but apparently it lives again.… Read the full post

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