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Today has been a mad busy day, and before I got a chance to check the European Parliament website to see how our elected MEPs voted on the Data Retention Law, Tuppenceworth has done the same.
Here are the votes:
Dublin
Proinsias De Rossa (Lab- ESP)- For
Mary Lou McDonald (SF- GUE/NLG)- Against
Gay Mitchell (FG-EPP)- Against
Eoin Ryan (FF-UEN)- Abstained
East
Liam […]

(What is the European Parliament up to?)
I don’t think it is a total defeat, but if more legislation is brought about, we could be in deep water.
This morning the decision was made by the European Parliament on Data Retention.
The directive was adopted by 378 votes in favour, 197 against and 30 abstentions.
The full […]

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Just poping my gmail account (use it for misc stuff) and got the above error.
Hmm, not liking that.
If you continue, it does work, but, not liking expiring SSL certs.
Maybe a concidence, but listening to Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code podcast earlier, I heard him whining about Gmail being broken.

I am once again reading Bruce Schneier’s book “Secrets And Lies”, mainly due to the whole data retention/data privacy debate that has been gopping on in Ireland, mainly involving Michael McDowell and now on the scene, Digital Rights Ireland.
Minister McDowell, the current Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, is bringing about a new data […]

[Update: Avril Doyle will be arriving in Strasbourg this evening. Please make sure contact is made with her by late this evening.]
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I have written the following letter/e-mail to my MEPs on the subject of imminent vote being taken on Data Retention TOMORROW.
People have to do it TODAY.
Read more here, here, here, here (NB: PDF), here, […]

I got the idea from Tom Raftery (who is quickly becoming a superstar in the blogosphere! Not that you weren’t a superstar before Tom…you get what I mean).
Ultimate Tag Warrior is a really useful plugin.
You write your post, and UTW will suggest tags, you can add Flickr/Technorati/del.icio.us, and alot more, tags.
Currently out at 2.8.9.
This is […]

I was at the opening of Novara.ie’s new offices on North Earl Street tonight. The opening guest was Tom Kitt, Minister for eGovernment.
One thing that struck me was he mentioned e-Domocracy. This seemed to be one of his “ideas”, which encompassed discussing government policies with the public. He did not go into the actual details […]