Road pricing petition – the response
“E-petition: Response from the Prime Minister
The e-petition asking the Prime Minister to "Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy" has now closed. This is a response from the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
Thank you for taking the time to register your views about road pricing on the Downing Street website.
This petition was posted shortly before we published the Eddington Study, an independent review of Britain's transport network. This study set out long-term challenges and options for our transport network.
It made clear that congestion is a major problem to which there is no easy answer. One aspect of the study was highlighting how road pricing could provide a solution to these problems and that advances in technology put these plans within our reach. Of course it would be ten years or more before any national scheme was technologically, never mind politically, feasible.
Wordpress editor hint
Mark Styles at 'Be Lambic or Green' has a nice tip for Wordpress 2.1 users that use the inbuilt WYSIWYG editor:
http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2007/02/a-wordpress-tip/
Posting to WordPress via Blackberry & Sony Ericsson 750i
I finally cracked the problem with wp-mail.php.
Posting via Blackberry or mobile phone did only show the subject (title), and not the message body, as it is base64 encoded.
Following the fixes by Michael Scott and David Morris (see previous post) I made some additions and amendments.
View the complete file here:
PS: Original changes by Michael Scott are enclosed by '// MS'; mine are marked '// JK'
Posting via Blackberry
Have this annoying problem of having emtpy messages when they come through the Blackberry.
I think I know where the problem is: Blackberrys (or in combination with Exchange) seem to encode everything in Base64.
Will try and fix this.
There is a post from Michael Scott with a fix:
http://www.michaelscott.me.uk/2006/04/handling-base64-encoded-emails-in-wordpress.html
and David Morris' little tweak:
http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=33.
Wish me luck.
PS: Didn't work of course. Will try again later.
Just upping the stats to 4 entries
I wonder whether my attitude towards blogs, both writing and reading, has changed according in direct relation to the rise in their popularity.
However, the web is full of abandoned blogs. Sad little sites showing latest entries from August 2003. Their authors might even have moved on to other, better blogs; oblivious to the evolutionary trail of destruction in their wake.
I shall go out there; collect and publish their URLs, so that they won't be forgotten!
Nice use of Flash 3D and videos
Brilliant little Flash site from Korea:
http://www.cyborg2006.co.kr/
Dutch Accessibility Law
In effect since September 2006, it requires all Dutch government websites to adher to accessibility guidelines.
Sooner or later accessibility guidelines will become law in other countries - either by local government initiatives, or by European decree.
Read the post at 456 Berea St:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200702/the_dutch_accessibility_law_is_awesome/
The original post by Peter-Paul Koch:
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2007/01/new_dutch_acces.html
F*ck me; here we go again
Years ago I used to have a blog. I think I managed 5 entries before I gave up. But not this time. This time will be different. Sigh.
