Quick post to say my Google Gadget, YourMP, has been updated. Its now a lot more efficient, cleaner, working and just overall better.
Quick rundown:
You know what would be REALLY useful?
Feedback!
Its been broken for the past 3 months and no one thought to tell me!
So feedback would be most welcome. 
I was playing around with the Google Desktop Search API again at the weekend and threw together a gadget that queries the TheyWorkForYou.com UK MP database. It basically enables you to gather all sorts of interesting info about various MPs, Peers, debates and committees.
This gadget is just a simple interface so you can enter your postcode and the panel then shows your local MP with links to their profiles (BBC, Wikipedia and the Guardian) with the list of the most recent debates they’ve been involved in. All of this is done with three requests to their server resulting in three seperate JSON responses. The first response is used to get the “person_id” which is necessary for the next two which retrieve further info and debates listings.
The gadget is hosted on Google’s Code Project Hosting site and released under GPL 3 so anyones free to tinker if they wish.
As a shameless plug of my main site and a recent component I made for Google Desktop Search. You can get the GDS Opera History Component from hereIt does exactly what you’d expect – indexes Opera 8+ history and includes it for searching using the Google Desktop Search app – which is currently at Beta 2.
Written in C# and the plugin was released, with source, under the GNU GPL in the hopes people will take it and tear it to shreads in a flurry of critical derision – well either that or learn from my ‘eccentric’ coding. 
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