by Daz | Jun 14, 2018 | Misc
A rare blog post and an extremely niche one. Have you ever tried to create a SSL private key file (PFX) from text certificates? I have and it’s taken me a long long time to figure out how to do it. As I couldn’t find any site with simple instructions on...
by Daz | Feb 21, 2018 | Politics
Since the EU referendum, it’s interesting that there still seems to be some reluctance to articulate what the benefits of leaving the EU are. Throughout the referendum, we were told that EU regulation strangles businesses yet there didn’t seem to be anyone...
by Daz | Dec 14, 2017 | Music
To liven things up a bit this year I’ve decided to turn up the hyperbole. These aren’t the best albums of the year like last year. These are the greatest albums of the year. Bearing in mind this is taken from the stupidly narrow selection of albums that I...
by Daz | Jun 11, 2017 | Politics
Well, that was funny. An election that went contrary to everything I predicted but has essentially left us in exactly the same position that we started from. The most important constitutional issue of a generation has reached a critical point and we are still none the...
by Daz | Apr 21, 2017 | Politics
Another day in an unwanted election campaign and another blog post. I’ve barely touched this blog in years and now I’m posting on consecutive days. I must have a fire in my belly, a fire for POLITICS (I haven’t). Since the election was announced I’ve seen lots of...
by Daz | Apr 20, 2017 | Politics
Give me an unexpected political event and I’ll give you a largely incoherent mass of political predictions that, more often than not, won’t come true. Whilst I say unexpected political events, many were predicting the General Election of 2017. I wasn’t. I was busy...
by Daz | Jan 24, 2017 | Politics
Back to blogging not particularly well thought through ideas about the EU Referendum. It’s like the old days. The halcyon days of late Summer 2016 when it looked like the country was willing to sacrifice everything we have on a vague promise of a return to the...
by Daz | Jan 16, 2017 | Birmingham, Misc
This is more related to business than the usual vague music and culture thing I’d blog about but I’m wary about putting it on my business site because….. well you never know. It’s nice to see that Birmingham appears to have achieved something...
by Daz | Dec 13, 2016 | Music
Well that was a year wasn’t it? A proper shit show as far as small minded politics and the fragile mortality of light entertainers goes. But a good year for albums, a very good year for albums. I’ve bought 125 albums that were released this year, more than...
by Daz | Jun 29, 2016 | Politics
I’m not proposing a middle class revolution but I do wonder if there is an ethical basis for ignoring the EU Referendum result. So that’s my question, is there? I’ve read many different blog posts setting out the potential legal hoops that might be brought into play...
