Un enghraifft o ddatganiad gan adran Llywodraeth dan y drwydded agored newydd gan Lywodraeth DU. Newyddion da am lawer o resymau. Pam greodd Llywodraeth DU trwydded newydd? Dw i’n methu ffeindio rheswm digon da i osgoi Comins Creadigol am ddata a dogfennau. O’r tudalen am meddalwedd: Software which is the original work of public sector [...]
Sometimes I feel as if I’m always playing catch-up. This book “A Useful Fiction“, which came out last year, has just brought me reasonably up-to-date with devolution of the United Kingdom, particularly some of the finer details which I’d missed. It has many good insights into the idea of Britain and its democracy, or rather [...]
Yesterday The Telegraph printed a story about S4C viewing figures for the football programme Sgorio: Sgorio – Welsh for score – turned into a no score draw on the night despite regularly pulling in tens of thousands of viewers on other nights. It is a regular show on Channel Four in Wales featuring top matches [...]
Are you a coder in the UK? Do you fancy tinkering around with government data for the potential good of the public? Here’s an early Christmas present. Visit data.gov.uk and it will bounce you on to a Google Group. Request to join the group and introduce yourself. You might get access to the developer preview [...]
Language is important. Recently I found George Orwell’s seminal essay Politics and the English Language online, originally written in 1946. I’d heard of it before but never thought to track it down. Here’s some of the intro: Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it [...]
Just a couple of days ago, I mentioned some really odd police posters I’d seen in Cardiff. This isn’t about those posters. (At least those police ones were trying to make some kind of valid point, but failed.) It’s about the ones that say “These chemicals won’t be used in a bomb because a neighbour [...]
The police have some new posters on display around the UK. I don’t like the posters. It was a definite case of dislike at first sight. It turns out the posters are there to advertise the new Policing Pledge: The Policing Pledge is a set of promises to local residents that not only gives more [...]
[ UPDATE 16/02/09: I've had a letter from my MP, Kevin Brennan, in reply to my email. It's dated 12th February 2009 and reads "Thank you for contacting me regarding Freedom of Information and MPs expenses. I believe it is essential that elected representatives should have the support necessary to perform their functions, including the [...]
My name's Carl Morris and this is my blog. It's about language, music, art, business and other stuff I care about.
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