Documents have recently been filed in the US Supreme Court by those contesting the US electoral outcomes that suggest that a late run of votes for Joe Biden in some Counties or States, was statistically, a very low ‘chance’ and so should also be proof that there was definitely something illegal going on. See...
Author: Craig Duncan
Visualising content
I wrote a post back in July about the need to improve the tools that allow us to work with text. Specifically, I said: The solution is not building tools around Word Processors, but removing word processors from the upstream work flow, and using them, if at all, for cleaning up and appearance for...
The Greedy Clearing Algorithm and Conservation Policies
Environmental policies to retain natural vegetation do not work particularly well, and offer little long-term hope of expansion and restoration of natural vegetation. The reason for this is a pattern in the general logic of clearing applications that I call the ‘Greedy Clearing Algorithm’. It goes something like this: The Greedy Clearing AlgorithmWhenever you...
Word Processors as a Legacy Format
Data management issues The ‘Word Processing’ software is a legacy item of software, but it is still perceived as the foundation of legal software tools. It’s the engine for pumping out correspondence and legal documents. Software vendors still base their software around the ability to integrate, or leverage word-processing software. As a result, we...
Computational legal document content and data management
This note explains why I think that management of the specific content in legal documents is going to pave the way for the next big shift in legal tools, for both lawyers and customers/clients. It requires acknowledging that Word Processors are ill-suited to anything more than basic data management of legal content and that...
National Environmental Standards – Part 1 – Models and data
The ‘centrepiece’ of new Environmental Law recommendations is a set of National Environmental Standards. See the interim report. Interim Report Highlights This wide ranging report has a whole lot of recommendations that seem to be reflective of how we transmit information between ourselves now, in the twenty-first century, and so have a kind of...
National Environmental Standards – Part 2 – Offsets
Let’s talk about offsets. On the bright side, the interim report does contain some wisdom, albeit in the form of some belated observations about the bleeding obvious. The Reviewers interim conclusion confirms what we already know, namely: Offsets do not currently offset the impact of development. Proponents are allowed to clear or otherwise impact...
National Environmental Standards – Part 3 – Farming
Any reform that focusses on the possibility of ecosystem and biodiversity improvement in regional Australia has to accept that the primary agents of environmental degradation, in rural areas, may be the farmers themselves. And complicating that matter is that the discussion is already concerned with a heavily degraded environment in which many species are...
Background to EPBC Act Review
The Discussion Paper The direct link to the Review’s Discussion Paper is here. The review of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act (Cth) is supposed to occur at least once every ten years. This is taken literally, since the last review was done in 2009. A slight shift is the move for more universal...
Software developers – is going alone a good idea?
So you’ve decided to go out on your own and start a business as a software developer. Is that a good thing? Do you have sufficient experience to know if this is a good idea, or are you going to see how it goes for a while. There’s a lot to learn, and this...