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Is WordPress being sofa kingdom by returning Error 404 for custom taxonomies, or doesn't recognize taxonomy-{name}.php template files in your theme? Does it inexplicably start working if you set permalinks to "default"? Can you likewise find very little documentation as to why this might be the case?

I've recently been playing with the semantic web (for the uninitiated, the semantic web is a structuring of web content in terms of what it depicts instead of just a bunch of linked text files) and have come up with the following two queries -- let me know if you find these useful!

For SPARQL (I.e., dbpedia), the following should return how many competitors each country is sending to the London 2012 Olympics:

Disclaimer: this may have changed in more recent versions of BuddyPress, so your mileage may very substantially. Please let me know if something's not working, but caveat lector none of this comes with any warranty or support whatsoever.

A couple friends and I run a laid-back survival Minecraft server at podsix.minehost.org. Feel free to connect if you want to check out what we've built, but be forewarned that everything's pretty heavily sandboxed for non-member users.

If you want to become a regular, we're always looking for new players. [Send me an email](h

I've written a post for the City Interhacktives' "It all started online" year in review series, discussing social media usage for the Occupy Wall Street protests. Read it here.

UPDATED: Now allows you to filter based on a comma-separated list of wards! More accurate application geolocation data based on eastings/northings! Wicked, yo! See below!

Ever wanted a way to learn about planning applications and appeals in the London borough of Hackney? The borough council's website has an ASP-driven search tool for both applications and appeals, but no way to get the latest ones in something as convenient as an RSS feed.

Latest article in the Hackney Citizen, "Houseboaters being 'forced out' from Olympics area." Set as the featured story on the website's front page at time of this post.

British Waterways (BW) has been accused of “forcing out” Hackney’s boaters after it announced plans to limit mooring times and impose fines for overstaying in an area close to the Olympic site.

As part of a project I'm working on for the Hackney Citizen, I'm creating a comprehensive map of a lot of different stuff going on in Hackney. One thing that would be particularly useful would be ward boundaries, ultimately comprising the area of the whole borough.

Much to my surprise, I could not find a single omnibus Hackney ward shapefile anywhere online. Thus I've created one, attached to this blog post.

The UNODC's yearly World Drug Report is always a fun piece of data to play with. For my data journalism course, I've used some of their stats to visualize aspects of it.

Below I've done a bubble chart showing consumption data. The size of the bubble shows total regional consumption, while each slice shows regional consumption of each drug.

What does any of it mean? Well, two really obvious things:

...Well, maybe next week we'll have a meeting at the scheduled time?

Due to Greenslade cancelling his Monday lecture, we bumped up our meeting time to then and had a general discussion.