memespring

It turns out that building search plugins for firefox is very easy. So here’s mine for TheyWorkForYou.com so you can search hansard straight from your search box:

click here to install it.

Backpack from 37 signals. Not as pretty as their normal output, but very useful for organising-my-arse. Alerts, wiki, todo lists all in one. Plus there’s mobile access gmail stylee.
Launchy a comandline launcher fow windows e.g. hit ‘Alt + Space’ then type ‘Firefox’. No more waiting for the start menu to expand
HassleMe a mini project from […]

Well sort of.
<crosses fingers and starts dreaming of winning the House of Commons watch>

Whoo, new project for the Lambeth local elections. electionmemory.com lets people:

Add their comments directly to the
local manifestos of the political parties

Find out about who is standing
where they live

Tell candidates their priorities
for their neighbourhood

Check previous election results
for their ward

It uses wordpress and brings together information already available on the internet in one place. It is has […]

Average number of names (double barrelled and middle) for candidates standing in the lambeth local elections:
Conservative: 2.88Liberal Democrats: 2.84Greens: 2.81Labour: 2.56
www.electionmemory.com coming soon

This is war!

God, you can tell there is an election coming in Lambeth. New year is over - bring out the crazy stories:
According to Labour’s best Maily Express impersonation Ian Huntley is going to be choosing the next council in our fair borough. Whilst the lovable Lib Dem Keith parasite Fitchett is apparently getting his own body […]

I spent yesterday evening copying and pasting Lambeth Council’s ‘Revitalise’ plans for Brixton into Blogger. The idea being to let people leave their comments directly against each paragraph in the same way as theywanttobeelected.com.
The councils plans aren’t all bad, but the consultation so far has been pretty piss poor (including the cringingly patronising "Welcome […]

I honestly didn’t think she’d ever take up the offer, and nor did the Tim at the Political Weblog Project but a couple of days ago I got an email from  the people "responsible for Kate Hoey’s web presence" asking if they could take control of www.katehoey.co.uk!  Here’s my response:

Many thanks for your email, as […]

Whilst no one was looking the government used the excuse of a guy with a couple of flags and a megaphone to ban all unwanted protest around the UK’s seat of government. Since July, any protest   within ‘The Zone’ (and protest is very loosely defined) needs to be pre-cleared. hmmm.
My better half was stewarding at […]