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Another MP Blogger

Fantastic! Tom Watson has now been joined by Richard Allan (Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam) in the ranks of MPs with their own weblog. It looks like it’s going to be really good; Richard is something of a geek (he runs RedHat 8.0 at home) and in one of his first entries he takes advantage of his position as an MP to extract information from Tiscali about broadband pricing issues in the UK.

Update: Further reading reveals that he is the Liberal Democrat spokesman on information technology, and a member of a number of technology related government groups.

Posted 16th June 2003 at 6:51 pm

This is Another MP Blogger by Simon Willison, posted on 16th June 2003.

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  1. Did you notice the nice semantic weblogging software he's using? ;) BTW Simon we're looking at integrating your SafeHTML class to clean up comments.

    Matt - 16th June 2003 19:22 - #

  2. Funnily enough I did have a poke around the Wordpress site a few minutes ago. It looks like it could be a really nice package. I should probably post my current version of the SafeHTML class which has a few extra (ugly) workarounds in response to some stress testing a few months ago.

    Simon Willison - 16th June 2003 19:28 - #

  3. I'm sure I've seen the page design over at OSWD, but I can't seem to find it now. Am I going nuts?

    Jim - 16th June 2003 20:22 - #

  4. The Page Design is indeed from OSWD and can be found here. It is by Haran and I have to stick a credit on the site once I have finished figuring out how to get the footer alignment right. I liked the simplicity of it.

    Richard Allan - 17th June 2003 13:04 - #

  5. Thank Richard, it's nice to know I'm not going crazy :). It's also comforting to know that at least a few MPs are technically adept enough to understand techie issues - the impression I get sometimes is that you are few and far between.

    Jim - 17th June 2003 18:21 - #

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