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That's pretty much what is happening now in Ireland. Irish Water is asking for PPS numbers for all the children in a household and for the main householder. PPS numbers are similar…

That looks pretty good. Is there a way to filter by language, or can you just order by language? And it'd be good if he got rid of the greengrocer's apostrophes[1]. [1] http://en.w…

It was the first one I installed myself. I spent a long time trying to download all the floppy disk images for A and X over dial up. Trying to do it while on work experience on the…

And now it's back working. Some more info here, but it's not much: https://status.github.com/messages

That seems to be the more used phrase. Maybe it's an Irish thing, we like to be a bit different too :)

> "Some of the goals that Brazil keeper Julio Cesar conceded were unavoidable, but he was not exactly Tim Howard in goal." (elsewhere) There's another plural/singular one. It would…

Almost, I'm from Ireland. I hadn't noticed the wider use of singular groups previously, but that does make sense when you point it out. I suppose it was just more obvious because w…

Reading this article (and lots more around world cup time) written about football by North Americans, I've noticed that there's a different way of thing about teams and countries t…

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Only messing. I just couldn't resist bringing up the great editor debate :)

No problems, I can see one or two bits that I think could do with clarifying (not least to get rid of emacs :P ). I'll have a go at it this evening and take notes.

I didn't mean to belittle it all, I'm well impressed with it. Nicely explained for the most part and I saw afterwards that it's up on github too so it's easy to send in corrections…

That's a good little installation document. I'm going to give that a go with a raspberry pi when I get home. How up to date are the instructions?

Hmm, Ireland doesn't exist. I guess they don't want me to get one, or find out about it.

There doesn't seem to be anything that jumps out as a reason to use aptitude over apt-get there. It mentions that the defaults for upgrading the distro are better for aptitude but …

Why is it better to use aptitude on debian? I've been using debian for years and always just used apt-get.

That was my reaction as well. Clicked the back button straight away and went looking in the comments to find out what was said in the article.

Gah! Another site that throws up an overlay to get yout email address when you're trying to read the article. It made me leave straight away without finishing it. Why do that? Does…

Really enjoyable article. I especially like the analogy of maps and how only using a map can distort reality.

Here's a longer write up on the hardware involved and thinking behind it. It's linked from the article but I thought this explained it better. http://blog.nytlabs.com/2013/11/05/di…

Nice, I like that one. I've been in that situation before, standing on my own and seeing others standing on their own too. But I never thought of just going up and being the person…

I'm not sure. Sometimes I find that when I'm working on something, I get ideas on what to write about. Admittedly, most of my blog posts tend to be reminders to myself on how to fi…

Thanks for the heads up on this. I thought I had read something about that in the past, but I couldn't remember what it was exactly. Going to go have a look at disconnect.me now.

I've been getting that too on a number of sites. After reading the replies to this, I see it's ghostery being a bit too eager. I'm going to give disconnect.me a try and see how tha…

I just get a "Ghostery blocked comments powered by Disqus." when I go to that page. Why does it seem like the whole article is wrapped up in Disqus?