"This would be the first time a barrister has ever faced contempt of court for the contents of their closing speech. Menon now faces two years in prison for the high crime of reminding the jury of their centuries-old right to return verdicts without fear of punishment from the trial judge."
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Continue reading...It’s telling that UK media hasn’t highlighted the Iranian frigate being unarmed, despite it being widely reported across Asia (lots of talk in Thailand). There’s also been littl...
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(In memorial: David Bowie)
I saw David Bowie in 1987, at the final concert of the Glass Spider Tour at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland. A local radio station had organized a couple of buses, and my friend and I - both teenagers at the time - decided we had to go (much convincing of parents t...
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The above picture was the view walking towards Pico de la Zarza, in Fuerteventura, on Tuesday.
The cloud was thick enough that you could barely see a few metres ahead of you (which is more than a little disturbing once you reach the top and you know there’s a fairly steep cliff on the other side...
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I’ve just returned from a trip to New Zealand over Christmas - my first time back since before covid. While there, I was looking through an old handwritten recipe book, which my mother inherited from an aunt (or great aunt, I forget now), and on the back of one of the many recipe newspaper cuttings...
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After reading the experiences of a number of other folk also having issues with Microsoft Bing (and thereby DuckDuckGo) indexing -- particularly this comment on Hacker News, I've come to the conclusion it was my fault after all.
At some point last year, I redirected my older (mostly unused) doma...
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On my current project, we have a tonne of Spark logic which needs to aggregate and (generally) sum data which is grouped by different keys, in order to then apply business rules at the record level (i.e. if the total of amount x, when...
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This is a weird one. DDG has been my search engine of choice for a number of years, so I also used it as the search engine for this site (since it's statically generated). At some point over the last 3 (I think) months it stopped working - returning no results for any search criteria. Given Bing...
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I've been using feedly since Google decided RSS wasn't a thing any more, and have been pretty happy with it. It wasn't as good as Google Reader, but good enough. The ads are gradually becoming more invasive though, and there's less of the minimalist feel it had when I first started using it, s...
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