by nabidana | Apr 30, 2011 | politics, technology, The Culture, this blog
The site is due for its regular screwup, just in time to keep the Alexa figures down, reduce my advertising prospects and make SEO a bit more difficult. The site will be switched to have three categories: Politics, Technology and Culture. The politics section will be...
by nabidana | Apr 29, 2011 | Ireland, Ireland Election 2011
Here it is. After all the counting, here’s the most up-to-date and accurate spreadsheet of the Seanad Election count made public. I include it here in HTML format, and a downloadable .xlsx file. Thanks to the Tony Williams team and the Sean Barrett team for...
by nabidana | Apr 27, 2011 | Ireland Election 2011
Ainm Count 1 % Count 2 TransBacik 2979 19.3516954657659Barrett 1047 6.80135117578277Coleman 769 4.99545277380798Connolly 71 0.461218656619462Cox 175 1.13680654800572Donnelly 20 0.12992074834351Dubsky 0Dudgeon 205 1.33168767052098Frost 178 1.15629466025724Gueret 821...
by nabidana | Apr 26, 2011 | Ireland Election 2011, stupidity
There will be no high court injunction. There is a principle in general existence: never ask a question unless you know the answer. The legal team I trust in matters of this sort believe that, although there is a constitutional and interpretational case to be made to...
by nabidana | Apr 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am minded to seek an injunction to prevent the count on Wednesday. Your views? # It is heartening to know that the epithet ‘Hoon’ can be amended without much effort to ‘Huhne’. # I would definitely have invited Blair. Wouldn’t have...
