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From Tiny Acorns…
I’m currently closing in on the completion of the first draft of what will hopefully become my second published novel. Word count at the moment is 90,000+ words, every single one of them written on a train. Writing on the train has been my standard modus operandi for some years now. But just recently, while…
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You [censored] Hypocritical [censored]!!!
Labour party supporters (not necessarily the Labour party itself) are currently slamming away at the Lib Dems for talking to the Tories about some sort of coalition, totally ignoring the fact that it wasn’t the Lib Dems who took this decision, but the British people themselves when a hell of a lot more of them…
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The Tragic Story of Oxfordia
Let’s talk about a small, remote, poor, and undeveloped country called Oxfordia that recently held an election. Oxfordia has a simple “first-past-the-post” election system; the country is divided into two halves, each of which returns a member of parliament. The results of the election were as follows: East Oxfordia Labourious Party: 21,938 votes (42.5%) The…
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First Past The Post: A Good Idea?
The BBC have put up an election calculator, where you can plug in various hypothetical national votes shares for the parties and then see what the election result would be, assuming consistent swings. You can find it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm I had a play around, and managed to come up with an interesting scenario. Imagine you had the…
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A Round-Up Of My Old Convention Reports
People seemed to quite like my Eastercon report, so I figured I’d post some links to previous gaming convention reports I’d done for my roleplaying webzine Critical Miss, just in case anyone was interested. Here they are: * * * * * Gaelcon… Probably The Greatest Convention In The World While shopping at GenCon we…
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