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[Florence]

Originally Posted by alt3rn1ty

Yes I would love to have a go at cleaning up the background noise without removing any verbal content, but would prefer the original raw, depending on what filtering you have applied any degradation of the voice content because of our combined efforts will be cumulative, ie the less filtering the better the end result I believe.

Any help with removing background noise is always appreciated I am only working with windows media so background noise is a bit pain... at times.

Will continue wheni get back from my mothers later today.

[bluecar1]

another interesting article
http://www.out-law.com/page-9247

"The Commissioner, with the support of the Court of Session, had decided that, as a matter of fact, a set of anonymised medical statistics were not personal data and had ordered their release under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.

According to one expert, the Lords' judgment shows that the Commissioner had failed to appreciate that the degree of anonymisation employed was very likely to be insufficient to protect anonyminity"

so an information commissioner is getting there wrist slapped for not protecting privacy

i wonder if the UK ICO is watching this

for anonymity read privacy

hmm

peter

[rryles]

Excellent work Alex. Really, excellent Well done on both your meetings.


Just need a transcript of the tape to make it more accessible. Is someone working on that already?? (Obviously it'll take more than a few minutes to complete)

[Dephormation]

Bizarre, was just responding to a thread on BadPhorm... did a search on the Daily Mail site for the word 'Phorm'... got this advert;



eBay are sponsoring the 'Phorm' word, through Yahoo! (a BT partner??), to sell garden plants.

Nothing to do with Phorm ever seems to makes sense, but Phorm and garden plants is getting a bit 'hatstand' for me. Perhaps Roger Irrelevant joined Phorms elite PR team, or are they making a very very crude attempt to prove their relevancy claim...

"Look search for Phorm, get garden plant ads! See? IRRELEVANT!"

Muppets (and that is the relevant word for Phorm).

Pete.

[Florence]

Originally Posted by rryles

Excellent work Alex. Really, excellent Well done on both your meetings.


Just need a transcript of the tape to make it more accessible. Is someone working on that already?? (Obviously it'll take more than a few minutes to complete)

I have started but it will take a while and mostlikely need checking by someone incase anything is missed out..

Could do a timing split and a few work from differnet times on tape.

I have started this and working along slowly the tape is an hour plus so 15min sections would perhaps move it along quicker. If it is important that is is done in a day or two....
Shame noone thought to invent a script to pick up the talking and type the words on the screen split between each person.. those cups keep making me want a coffeeee. damn you Alex where is my coffee..

[AlexanderHanff]

Originally Posted by rryles

Excellent work Alex. Really, excellent Well done on both your meetings.


Just need a transcript of the tape to make it more accessible. Is someone working on that already?? (Obviously it'll take more than a few minutes to complete)

Yes it is being worked on (thanks florence)

Alexander Hanff

[rryles]

Originally Posted by Dephormation

Bizarre, was just responding to a thread on BadPhorm... did a search on the Daily Mail site for the word 'Phorm'... got this advert;

A possible explination: There is a type of plant called "phormium" or New Zealand Flax.

[AlexanderHanff]

Originally Posted by rryles

A possible explination: There is a type of plant called "phormium" or New Zealand Flax.

Is it a parasite (weed)?

Alexander Hanff

[rryles]

Originally Posted by Florence

I have started but it will take a while and mostlikely need checking by someone incase anything is missed out..

Could do a timing split and a few work from differnet times on tape.

I have started this and working along slowly the tape is an hour plus so 15min sections would perhaps move it along quicker. If it is important that is is done in a day or two....

Like I said - it's not a ten minute job. I can do some tonight. I'll start from 1 hour in and see how I go.

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Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff

Is it a parasite (weed)?

Depends who you ask
According to The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew:

Phormium tenax
New Zealand Flax

The name Phormium comes from the Greek for ‘basket’.

A truly versatile plant, it is known to the Maori as ‘harakeke’. They traditionally use its tough fibrous leaves for making mats, baskets, clothing, fishing nets and rope. They also use the pollen as face powder and the roots for making medicine.

These qualities have resulted in Phormium being widely cultivated.

Found throughout New Zealand, Phormium was one of the first plants to be discovered when Captain Cook landed in 1773.

Phormium is now an invasive plant in many parts of the world, proving a threat to sensitive floras.

According to the Royal Horticultural Society...

Found throughout New Zealand, Phormium was one of the first plants to be discovered when Captain Cook landed in 1773.

Phormium is now an invasive plant in many parts of the world, proving a threat to sensitive floras.

{Sorry sunshine - I was still typing that when you posted.}

[Florence]

@ Alex...

Just a quick thought have you got al you said already wrote down or is it just the questioins you have already on paper...

Damn those cups..... Need to get a improvments bill past the house of lords need soundproofing while drinking coffee with guests

[AlexanderHanff]

Originally Posted by Florence

@ Alex...

Just a quick thought have you got al you said already wrote down or is it just the questioins you have already on paper...

Damn those cups..... Need to get a improvments bill past the house of lords need soundproofing while drinking coffee with guests

I only have the questions submitted by the people here written down, everything else was just bullet points as I wanted the discussion to flow naturally as opposed to being an interview (which I personally believe worked very well as it showed our Peers do have a human side that everyone can relate to).

The chinking of china and silver spoons was a little loud but the coffee was fantastic.

Alexander Hanff

[Dephormation]

Phorm seem to be updating their web site at present. I reckon they are dressing themselves up, to attract a takeover.

There's a section I haven't seen before, which regurgitates the non-committal statements of the various partner ISPs;

http://webwise.phorm.com/current_pilots.php

[Ravenheart]

now back home after my surgery on Monday, I could do some transcribing as I have to keep my foot elevated, and i could transcribe from my i pod to paper then type it up in short sessions if this would help.

[Florence]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff

I only have the questions submitted by the people here written down, everything else was just bullet points as I wanted the discussion to flow naturally as opposed to being an interview (which I personally believe worked very well as it showed our Peers do have a human side that everyone can relate to).

The chinking of china and silver spoons was a little loud but the coffee was fantastic.

Alexander Hanff

Where is mine :'(

Ok was just clutching at straws to make this quicker since i keep getting interupted today.. Mind tonight will be peaceful if everyone does what they say they are going to do..

he does have much better knowledge than most i have listenened to in the government, maybe they should let him lead them into the right paths..

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Originally Posted by Ravenheart

now back home after my surgery on Monday, I could do some transcribing as I have to keep my foot elevated, and i could transcribe from my i pod to paper then type it up in short sessions if this would help.

Would love the help the quicker we can get this online the better for the fight. I have started if you could start 30 mins into the recording and rryles is starting at the 1hour doing the last 16mins or so. The Earl of Northesk would have needed another coffee after all this talking. Such an interesting and friendly chat makes him a really approachable person.
A big thank you to both Alex for going and the Earl of Northesk for meeting Alex