Laying the groundwork for a future worth building

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…

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

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…

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…

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

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…

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…

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

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…

Published Date 3/10/12 10:16 PM Am testing out a load of solar gear in my back garden, have a old 17AH lead acid battery from a UPS, trying to find out if it will hold a charge. You have to keep batteries topped up with power otherwise they deteriorate over time. UPDATE: it did not…