Published Date 6/20/12 4:45 PM if you walk into a private owned walled garden, tend the ground and grow the bounty, and they close the gates. You have to pay to eat the produce. The moral – do not walk in to the walled gardens in the digital world, the are huge trakes of free…
Rainbow gatherings have a very strong largely invisible core of myths and traditions
Published Date 6/15/12 1:16 PM The myths and traditions of Rainbow are what a gathering is. The people come to gather and “enact” these myths and traditions, but they are generally neglected. To put an arbitrary scale on this – the national rainbows are generally only 10-20% of rainbow power, were the European is 40-60%…
The media wreck
Published Date 6/14/12 8:28 AM The digital tsunami has passed, the washed away sea front of the old media world is being re-built with the usual fast food joints and global burger bars media outlets. Leaving little space left on the fringes for the new media world that hasn’t made the shift into the new…
Rainbow Gatherings soft and hard organising the shopping mission
Published Date 5/18/12 5:29 PM The Rainbow shopping mission (DRAFT) The gatherings are fascinating places to see very different views of human organising, social institutions and working/broken alternatives to traditional society. I found that when on a shopping mission you should go with your own crew, to go with an existing crew is a recipe…
April London Liferay User Meetup
Published Date 4/13/12 5:24 PM It was a good to share skills and ideas with the different groups last night. We introduced a range of programmers and developers to Liferay, and started what is almost certainly the first community bug-fix of a Liferay site in London. The next London Liferay User meetup will be in…
Queen Party
Published Date 4/9/12 9:44 PM Queen Party 21st April (Dalston, London) Everybody comes as a queen, any queen will do. Bring rich wine and fine dining. Gold, swans, hats, handbags, microphones, tight trousers and wig, a tetra. The royal verity show – performers free, everyone else 20 million $$$$. RSVP as the queen (any queen…
Solar laptop power
Published Date 3/28/12 8:22 PM [embedded content] This is a new 32W panel which is more than my older 25W panel, and runs a bigger laptop Rugged folding 32.2W solar panel. 18 to 20VDC open circuit voltage. Current 2.4A in full sun. Cigarette socket connector. 16″ X 10″ folded; 14″ X 44″ unfolded. 1 1/2…