#Trafigura, an almighty #carterruck-up

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – John Gilmore, Time Magazine 6th December 1993 This quote – made almost 16 years ago – sums up in a nutshell why I love the internet sometimes. As is obvious from the ongoing events this morning that the law firm Carter-Ruck didn’t really understand […]

Marcus Povey

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – John Gilmore, Time Magazine 6th December 1993 This quote – made almost 16 years ago – sums up in a nutshell why I love the internet sometimes. As is obvious from the ongoing events this morning that the law firm Carter-Ruck didn’t really understand […]

Postcodes and the Royal mail

Back in July I gave a talk at Oxford Geek Nights about the Digital Britain report entitled “#DigitalBritain fail” in which I discussed the Digital Britain report and some of it’s many shortcomings. One of the potential courses of action I suggested that people could take was to essentially smile,  say “that’s nice dear” and […]

Marcus Povey

Back in July I gave a talk at Oxford Geek Nights about the Digital Britain report entitled “#DigitalBritain fail” in which I discussed the Digital Britain report and some of it’s many shortcomings. One of the potential courses of action I suggested that people could take was to essentially smile,  say “that’s nice dear” and […]

Running Elgg on a MySQL cluster

I have recently been exploring some aspects of the Elgg scalability question by exploring how easy it would be to get the latest version of Elgg (1.6) running on a MySQL cluster. In this article I will document the process, but first I should point out: This is highly experimental and not endorsed in any […]

Marcus Povey

I have recently been exploring some aspects of the Elgg scalability question by exploring how easy it would be to get the latest version of Elgg (1.6) running on a MySQL cluster. In this article I will document the process, but first I should point out: This is highly experimental and not endorsed in any […]