{"id":224,"date":"2003-05-19T11:53:53","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20030519115353"},"modified":"2004-03-25T04:20:39","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T04:20:39","slug":"19052003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/05\/19052003\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from a long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria day is upon us!  An extra day of weekend is greatly appreciated, here&#8217;s some notes on how it&#8217;s been spent and how it will be spent:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenorth.com\/\">Anime North<\/a> the local Anime convention.  Pretty enjoyable overall, and I was particularly impressed by the Artists Alley.<\/li>\n<li>After brunch yesterday we picked up a saw and some plants.  We now have some wood of suitable size for burning in our chiminea, and hopefully we&#8217;ll get some greenery on our deck soon.<\/li>\n<li>Re-jigged my backup scripts to utilise another spare partition.  I&#8217;ll probably release these scripts once I know for sure that they work.<\/li>\n<li>Discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginradio.co.uk\/thestation\/listen\/index.html\">Virgin Radio<\/a> is available via a 128Kbit MP3 stream.  I&#8217;m not a huge fan of Virgin, but the more commercial radio stations that make their broadcasts available over MP3 (or ogg!) the better.  For some reason their shoutcast listing rates them as &#8220;Adult Pop Rock&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>My weblog validates once again.  I hadn&#8217;t realised that you needed to have paragraphs inside blockquotes.<\/li>\n<li>Skating this afternoon if all goes to plan!<\/li>\n<li>Fireworks tonight?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/3039367.stm\">call for a referendum<\/a> on the UK&#8217;s ratification of the EU Constitution seems to be gathering steam.  I suspect that it won&#8217;t happen, simply because the Constitution is mostly a (long overdue) paper work exercise.  There are some changes to the demarcation of powers between states and EU level, but with the potential exception of a president for the European Council there&#8217;s not that much change from the status quo.  <\/p>\n<p>Given this it&#8217;s hard to see what a referendum question would be on.  If the question was on the adoption or rejection of the constitution, what would happen with a rejection?  If there was a particular part of the proposed constitution (and note that it&#8217;s not even finished yet!) that was controversial for the British public then a rejection could lead to re-negotiation, but at the moment I can&#8217;t see which particular aspect could be singled out like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria day is upon us! An extra day of weekend is greatly appreciated, here&#8217;s some notes on how it&#8217;s been spent and how it will be spent: Went to Anime North the local Anime convention. Pretty enjoyable overall, and I was particularly impressed by the Artists Alley. After brunch yesterday we picked up a saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}