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Archives for 18 June 2016


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Themself moving host

Themself is now on a Linode. I've been having some problems with Themself maxing out on disk space of late. Usually I've been fixing it temporarily by deleting emails and making local archives of older emails I want to keep. So the long term solution was to move to a bigger hosting plan. Linode If you've not heard of Linode I'm not surprised. I hadn't until I'd gone looking for a cloud based server. Originally I'd planned to use an AWS instance because they have a free tier. However fun it might have been to hone my cloud devops skills I just didn't have the time for it. AWS needed me to apply my whole range of technical architect skills to design the service. Frankly running a WordPress blog and a postfix mail server doesn't need that level of ;…
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Immigration and Brexit

I've stood on the UK Border and welcomed tens of thousands of people to the UK. I've also refused entry to a much smaller number of people. As well as that I've had jobs in strategy and doing workforce planning. It gives me an unusual insight into how the system works. The one thing that has struck me, and why I'm writing this article, is the high level of nonsense being bandied about. I don't personally see the UK having an immigration problem, but our immigration narrative is wildly distorted and nowhere near the facts. Immigrants to the UK from the EU make a net contribution to the public funds. In fact all legal immigrants make a net contribution. You'd not get that story from listening to politicians. Also you'd miss that we can make the borders and immigration system…
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