Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

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• Politics and World Events

  • A useful meeting on leasehold reform

    Today I had a very useful and well-attended meeting with several other people trying to mitigate the effects of the leasehold scandal. I learnt quite a bit about one particular industry group's tactics, and there was a productive exchange of views.

    This was a continuation of the "Dublin Memo" process: trying to address the problem site-by-site with the existing tools (Right To Manage, enfranchisement and so on) whilst seeking statutory change where necessary. This is in distinction to the Westminster-facing approaches of sucking up whatever the government is prepared to concede, or focusing on campaigning to shift the government's position.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Dissent

    • Old, offline, outstanding

      It seems that I keep getting some items with interesting history even to this day. For instance, two days ago, I was given my real father's mechanical pocket watch on a chain as a birthday present. Of course it works but is hellishly fast and does need some maintenance since it was never given one since 1990 or something like that when it had been bought, however, that's not what I'm here to talk about today. There is yet another artifact that I purchased last week, and I bet that, just like with that custom-engraved Seiko SBTM091 I already wrote about, the sellers didn't really know what they were selling. They were selling it as a "programmable calculator with formula entry capabilities", sic. Meanwhile, it even says "HANDHELD COMPUTER / ORDINATEUR PORTABLE" on the backplate, and this is what this Texas Instruments TI-74S really is.