machine-envy

Can anyone recommend a decent XML editor.  XML is all about the tools, so where are the decent XML editors?  At work, people use XML spy but this is non-free and windows only.  I’m also surprised I can’t find an eclipse XML editor that is any good - eclipse development requires loads of XML.

I just did a fresh install of feisty on a new machine and I’m not happy.  Lets take a look at two packages, all beginning with fire, both of which are pretty standard for me:

Firefox - this just segfaults from a brand new install.  Thanks.
Firehol - this is the best way of writing firewall rules […]

…for the apparent attraction of the Metro as it is held in a fellow commuter’s hands. An attraction that disappears completely when the commuter leaves it on the seat and you start reading it.
Still looks like Westminster are doing the right thing and charging them for dumping tonnes of crap on the streets of […]

I was having a problem where I would see “Forbidden, perhaps you need to change the file permissions for this document or upload an index page” for every page in the site if I changed the permalink option in the wordpress admin page.
The good folks at A4 suggested putting this in the .htaccess file:

Options -Indexes
Options […]

I went to the premier of We’ll Never Meet Childhood Again a few weeks ago.  It was showing as part of the Human Rights Watch film festival.
The film follows the plight of Romanian children with AIDS who were abandoned to institutions in the eighties, see the HRW report here.   It shows the stories by […]

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James and I are off to the beach for a couple of weeks. Hope y’all enjoy the weather whilst we’re away…

I had an interesting phone call from a friend who wished to settle a Christmas family argument. The argument was over Deal Or No Deal. Imagine the case where there are only two boxes left closed, one belonging to the contestant and the other to someone else, and the million is in one […]

With thanks to David Berry on the FC-UK list, here’s the government’s response to the Gowers Review in the Pre Budget Report:

“3.81 The Government welcomes the Gowers Review and will take forward those recommendations for which it is responsible. The Government firmly believes in the need for strong enforcement of IP rights to support the UK’s creative […]

I’ve had quite a few articles published since I last posted. Here’s a quick summary:
The net effect on parliament
How can civic hacking site TheyWorkForYou save MPs from themselves?
User demands push Firefox
Two years on from the 1.0 release, is Firefolx losing its sheen?
The right to know everything
Coverage of the IPPR’s excellent new report on intellectual property
Flash! […]