I was both saddened and annoyed by the HS2 release, and I wrote an earlier blog on the issue. The fact is that the potential savings in journey time are a sick joke. How a 30 minute saving per person between London and Leeds can justify such a huge cost is staggering.… Read the full article
Category: Petitions
Woodland Concerns
I read with some interest the concerns of the Woodland Trust in an email sent to me earlier in the week, they [Woodland Trust] were raising the issue of the present Government’s [ConLib] commitment to sell some considerable acreage of forestry to the private sector. I have some serious doubts about this policy, not least because I have extensive knowledge of an estate in the west Yorkshire area, presently in the hands of a “private” concern.… Read the full article
Save MySQL
Although this may seem a little off topic, the proposed acquisition of Sun Systems by Oracle, will bring MySQL under the control of the world’s largest provider of closed source databases. MySQL is probably the leading open source database system on the market and is used by many sites around the world.… Read the full article