Tag Archive for 'tech'

Please do not adjust your set

By NL on 18/08/2010. 0 Comments

Some behind the scenes updates – which had to be done – mean that the blog is going to look not entirely like its usual self for a few days (fonts and font size, some layout etc.), till I can get to grips with some coding oddities. Probably this weekend. I just thought you ought to know, because it is nothing to do with your browser or anything at your end.

I may take the opportunity to give it a bit of a face lift, if I get time. Was there anything about the old design that particularly annoyed people?… Read the full post

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Admin Court latest decisions feed added

By NL on 14/02/2008. 0 Comments

The bottom right of the blog now has both Civil Court of Appeal and Administrative Court judgments in feeds that update as soon as the judgments are released on Bailii.

Non-techies can look away now.

For the technically interested, this is a complete kludge. The beta Bailli recent decisions RSS feed is filtered through a Yahoo pipe, adapted from one by Nick Holmes, to give only Admin decisions. But the resulting RSS feed from the Yahoo pipe wouldn’t show up in the WordPress RSS widget whatever I did to it, so the Yahoo feed has been redirected through Feedburner to give a feed that does show up. If anybody wants … Read the full post

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New news

By NL on 09/02/2008. 0 Comments

I’ve been having a bit of a play. You may notice a new page tab for “Housing News Feeds” above. This has the RSS feeds of various housing related sites and blogs, so they will be constantly updated with any new items. Hopefully, it will be worth checking whenever you stop by.

The problem is that so few sites actually have RSS feeds for their news pages. I’ve done what I can with various tools that try to turn fixed web pages into RSS feeds, with limited success.

Remarkably, the Communities.gov.uk site is very well provided with news feeds and Inside Housing has one. But other organisations, like Shelter, don’t … Read the full post

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Oh what a tangled web…

By NL on 20/11/2007. 0 Comments

[Edit. This was originally posted on Friday evening 16/11/07. Not that I'm getting all conspiratorial but it disappeared in the great site downtime and server change... There was also originally an image, which has vanished from the server and apparently was deleted (by me) on my home machine. So, albeit imageless, I defy the internet gods and post this again]

While Musharraf tries to overcome the rule of law by imprisoning all the lawyers and the Lord Chief Justice pleads, probably in vain, for a genuine discussion of prison policy, Nearly Legal’s scarce free moments today have been largely consumed by the ramifications of the posturing of a small … Read the full post

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Rumours of my demise…

By NL on 19/11/2007. 0 Comments

… were entirely due to a technical hitch. Admittedly a walloping great big technical hitch which lasted 3 days and was only resolved by the site being moved a new server and the Domain Name Server records being updated. But as of 11.30 pm on Monday, the site is working again. What time you get to see it live once more depends on how slowly the new DNS information spreads around t’internet.

Still, the sense of panic, bewilderment and deprivation the 3 day outage instilled has set me wondering about little things like dependency, addiction and the whole quality of life issue…

By the way, if anyone emailed me between … Read the full post

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Oi, you, Pipex Internet

By NL on 26/10/2007. 0 Comments

This has nothing to do with law, but sometimes a personal howl of frustration must be let loose.

The topic is crappy internet service providers. To be specific, Pipex Internet. I am a Pipex subscriber, although not for very much longer. I have been for years. It used to be a reliable and not overly expensive provider for a 1Mps ADSL connection.

Over the last year or so, things have gone badly wrong.

First was the upgrade fiasco. With the introduction of new subscriptions and the promise of ‘up to’ 8Mps connections, I was naturally interested in transferring – paying less for a faster connection. The online upgrade application page … Read the full post

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Legislation Search and RSS feeds

By NL on 10/10/2007. 0 Comments

Thanks to Binary Law for the news that the OPSI Legislation search now comes with an RSS feed on searches for easy updates.

Unfortunately, having spent an evening wrestling with it, I’d damned if I can get specific search feeds to display on this blog. The feeds either aren’t recognised by the WordPress plugins I’m using, or involve some not insignificant code hacking to display at all, albeit badly, on a separate page.

I’m going to spend some more time trying to sort this out, when I have time, but for now here are the links for search feeds on ‘Council Tenancies‘, ‘Social Housing‘, ‘Housing … Read the full post

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