Published Date 6/9/12 8:03 AM Simferopol’, Crimea, Ukraine. The hostel I was going to stay in near the railway station was not open. so I had an idea, public transport is very cheap around 20p for a tram or bus ride so looking at my offline map I found a forest near a reservoir close…
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…
Micro advertising for sustainability
Published Date 3/28/12 8:16 PM 1. What do you propose to do? Simple automated hyper-local advertising to sustain open projects – the new digital sweetshop window. 2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? There are many automated advertising projects, but none for video that are as embedded in…
The Stupidly Simple Open Media Network
A common database of media metadata exchanged by RSS in and out, using open industrial standards and neutral unbranded widgets. 2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? (30 words) There are many aggregators of news (eg http://daveriver.scripting.com/, or http://ignoregon.com) but they aggregate with whole rss feeds not tags, and new…