November 2008
4 posts
BNP membership, free speech and all that jazz
Comment left here. After WW II there was a specific ban on people joining or organising fascist groups, for obvious reasons. AFAIK this ban has’t been appealed for public servants and it is a serious issue for them, I think you sign a piece of paper saying that you will not join such an organisation when you take up employment – you certainly used to in the olden days. A lot of the anti-nazi types...
guerilla bumper stickers
http://www.wisdom-books.com/ProductDetail.asp?PID=6370 Buy lots and sneak around car parks sticking them on bumpers, particularly beemers and mercs (heh) You know you want to But of course I can’t condone lawless behaviour
Rails RJS render throwing mysterious render error...
WARNING: Rails techie stuff if you keep seeing this NoMethodError (undefined method `[]’ for :update:Symbol): /vendor/plugins/princely/lib/pdf_helper.rb:11:in `render’ when your controller is doing this: render :update do … end It’s because of a bug in the Princely plugin when it wraps the standard render method. I have emailed the maintainer (the bug tracker is broken and I did mention it...
Hiding
I’ve been ridiculously busy and ill for most of the last month. Had a week off work with a migraine-giving virus that still has its claws in me. Lots of things going on and ideas bubbling. Currently looking at an essay on Buddhism and Depression from the inside, I was making comments on a site and had my comments pulled two or three times so decided I was’t going to bother trying to help people...