Archive for February, 2004
Friday, February 27th, 2004
My pointer to the Joyce estate's actions in relation to Bloomsday has been picked up by a lot of other weblogs - which is consistent with my observation that intellectual property is one of the main topics to take advantage of the highly skewed propagation trail in weblogs. Now ...
Posted in International Affairs, Online communication, Personal, Trivia | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 26th, 2004
Michael D Higgins has challenged the Irish government's calls for there to be no protests during Bush's visit this June, stating in part that "Certainly I plan to participate in any lawful and peaceful protests that may be held." I attach his full statement below.
Posted in Political activism | Comments Off on MDH defends right to protest against Bush
Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
We include, below, drafts of letters that can be sent to newspapers and politicians. Adding your own words to the letter below will make it more personal.
function validate() {
if (document.emailform.realname.value == "") {
alert("Please enter your real name");
...
Posted in Electronic Voting | Comments Off on Send a letter
Tuesday, February 24th, 2004
According to the latest IFEX bulletin, Louise Arbour has been appointed the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. I saw Arbour speak in 1998 or 1999 when she was still Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and she was very impressive at the time ...
Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off on Arbour as UNHCHR
Monday, February 23rd, 2004
I don't often praise Flash introductions, but I'm serious when I say that Bernie Sanders' staff have produced wonderful flash-based introduction to his website and his politics.
Posted in Electoral politics | Comments Off on Introducing Bernie
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004
So, the government has brought out (a fairly meaningless) 'compromise' amendment to the opposition motion. In essence - we intend to appoint some experts to look at the system again.
Posted in Electronic Voting | Comments Off on Political developments a-plenty
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004
From a CU-Wireless Press Release:The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CWN) has been awarded a significant grant from the Open Society Institute, funded by the Soros Foundation, to develop wireless technology to be used around the globe, with a focus on developing nations. Urbana-Champaign will become the testing ground for ...
Posted in Computing Technology, International Affairs | Comments Off on Soros gives CU-Wireless cash to develop world’s most advanced community wireless network
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004
The opposition motion on electronic voting will be discussed in An Dáil this evening (Tuesday) and tomorrow.
Posted in Electronic Voting | Comments Off on Opposition motion to be discussed in Dáil
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004
David Dill, who operates VerifiedVoting.org was featured on the front page of the Irish Times on Monday, arguing that the proposed Irish system should be abandoned.
Posted in Electronic Voting | Comments Off on David Dill condemns Irish system
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004
This is the proposed constitution that will be put to the GMM this Wednesday. The motion will be "That the Constitution of the GEO be replaced by the proposed text posted on the GEO website." [I will be placing a copy of the text on that site].
Posted in Labour issues | 2 Comments »