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In a report published in mid-April, the Broadband Stakeholder Group warned that “time is running out to get the UK in shape to cope with the next wave of net use.” The Group is calling for telecoms firms to be encouraged to build faster networks, warning that without such investment, the country “could suffer profound social and economic setbacks.”

Two things are happening to software that should be of interest to trade unionists. First, software that used to cost a great deal of money is now often available completely free of charge. Second, that software – which used to come on CD-ROMs – now is often available for use online, through your web browser.

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's first PRADSA workshop in Loughborough, and since I'm running a session I thought you might like a preview. We'll be trying out a version of a game I've developed over the past few years with my colleague Drew Mackie.

Created a custom block with the below php code and then disabled the drupal built in navigation block

<?php
global $user;
if ($user->uid) {
if ($menu = menu_tree()) {
   echo "";
   echo "
";
   print $menu ;
   echo "
";
   echo "";
}
}
?>

Used the taxonomy_access module to create public and private tags. Anonymous users can see the public tagged content but only registered users can see the private content.

plagiarised a quick php sql query to list all registered users and links to there profiles.

<?php

$header = array(
array('data' => t('Username'), 'field' => 'u.name', 'sort' => 'asc')
);
$sql = "SELECT u.uid, u.name FROM {users} u WHERE u.uid > 1";
$sql .= tablesort_sql($header);
$result = pager_query($sql, 50);

$status = array(t('blocked'), t('active'));
while ($account = db_fetch_object($result)) {