Tolpuddle and Swing

http://www.brh.org.uk/articles/captain_swing.html

An interesting link….in the terms of a kind of comment on the pippa and sopa…is the ultimate end groups of folk who break (or send code to crash) machines….remember the aol to carphone warehouse migration that took 90k computers off air, and the demise of netscape and what happened in california

Interesting angle….the unrest in these olden days, was caused by people who DID NOT want to feed the townies…the article doesnt countenance that angle…

Just grist for a tuesday

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SOPA and PIPA: Just the Facts | PCWorld

http://www.pcworld.com/article/248298/sopa_and_pipa_just_the_facts.html

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Belated Happy New Year

Did you know we ask favours of the French for extra electricity (nuclear electricity?) to boost our system for what…the kettle switch on at the end of soap operas!  SOAP OPERAS…do the land a favour, boil the kettle at the beginning of the programme, and only reheat it at the end…maybe we can save the surge….
Info from Blighty ‘Britain from above’ programme …

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