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Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Well I go away for a few months, come back & everything's changed - lots of new features on the Blogger website to investigate. Apols for the recent silence. I've been v.busy & at the moment I'm helping out with the Labour Party campaign for the Millwall by-election which takes place this Thursday. I'm going on holiday for a few days afterwards (the first proper holiday I've taken for about 5 years) so I'm not sure when the next update here will be but I will try to post soon. Lots of interesting politics going on in Tower Hamlets at the moment so there's lots to catch up on in the next few weeks.
In the meantime, why not look at the Newport Avenue Community and Residents Association (NACRA) website. This is the residents association for the area where I live. On the site there's some excellent pictures of NACRA's trip to Southend and also one of Sexton Court in the snow.
Julian 9/7/2004 11:29:21 PM
Friday, February 27, 2004
Well I've moved again and only today have I finally got Internet access again. My apologies if I've yet to answer your e-mail (I haven't downloaded them all yet) and for the lack of updates to this site. This time I've moved to a flat in Virginia Quay which is in the Blackwall/Poplar/East India Dock area. I should be staying here for a good while and so will be able to update this site regularly. Even so I've got a lot to sort out in my new place - there's a lot of work to do.
Julian 2/27/2004 10:43:43 PM
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Tonight I went to a meeting open to all residents of the Samuda Management Board on anti-social behaviour and on the unused garages on the estate. It was v.constructive.
There were about four other meetings going on tonight that I could have attended. What's really annoying is that there are meetings of that have been arranged but don't seem to have been confirmed to me or some other Councillors.
Julian 2/3/2004 11:19:13 PM
Monday, February 02, 2004
A week and a half later and I'm still sorting myself out after moving twice in the past 2-3 weeks and having no electricity for the previous two weeks.
Tonight I went to a training session for Councillors on Tower Hamlets' Code of Conduct and, in particular, Declaration of Interests. The Code of Conduct is part of the Council's Constitution which you can read here and you can read all the interests registered by all of Tower Hamlets' Councillors (including mine) here.
After the training session I went to a meeting with East Thames Housing Association to hear the latest developments about the development on 3 Limeharbour and the residents of two properties in Aste Street. I've mentioned here before that they are being found new accommodation because of the new development.
Then I managed to catch almost all of the presentation held in the Council Chamber for the new High Commissioner for Bangladesh although I didn't stay for the meal as I was v.tired.
Julian 2/2/2004 11:02:12 PM
Sunday, January 25, 2004
Anyway, just for the record, I did my surgery yesterday and it was fairly quiet. When I've sorted my self out a bit more I'll have to have a page with the surgery details.
Julian 1/25/2004 12:26:58 PM
Saturday, January 24, 2004
One of the things I've picked up over the past month or so is this an analysis of the SERVE voting system (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment), an Internet-based voting system being built for the U.S. Department of Defense to enable members of the US military to vote using the Internet. (Obviously the DoD is not expecting much of the US Army to be in the US for elections in the next few years.)
This report endorses the criticsims made of SERVE and adds "because SERVE is an Internet- and PC-based system, it has numerous other fundamental security problems that leave it vulnerable to a variety of well-known cyber attacks (insider attacks, denial of service attacks, spoofing, automated vote buying, viral attacks on voter PCs, etc.), any one of which could be catastrophic."
Read the report for yourself, but I can't help quoting another section which all those who advocate Internet voting should read and understand:
"The vulnerabilities we describe cannot be fixed by design changes or bug fixes to SERVE. These vulnerabilities are fundamental in the architecture of the Internet and of the PC hardware and software that is ubiquitous today. They cannot all be eliminated for the foreseeable future without some unforeseen radical breakthrough. It is quite possible that they will not be eliminated without a wholesale redesign and replacement of much of the hardware and software security systems that are part of, or connected to, today's Internet."
Julian 1/24/2004 11:20:13 PM
Hey, I'm finally back on-line!!!!!
More later.
Julian 1/24/2004 06:21:29 PM
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Apologies for the lack of updates. I've had Christmas, the flu, been without electricity for the past two weeks, had to find somewhere else to live and move a couple of times. This is a bit of a shame as there's been some v.interesting stuff happen on the Council at least in the past two weeks or so since politics in Tower Hamlets started up after the Chirstmas and New Year break. I'm currently without a regular Internet connection and therefore will only be posting intermittently.
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
Julian 1/20/2004 12:14:51 PM
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