If you have been directed here from some kind persons blogroll.... I've moved.
Please be so kind as to click... here... my new server is in Iceland and fueled by 'volcano power' ... so ..check it out.
Thanks
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Saturday, 24 September 2011
Saturday, 27 August 2011
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
publish and be damned...
Well, altho it's still a work in progress I've just published my new website.... here.
check it out.
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check it out.
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Sunday, 14 August 2011
All Quiet on the Western Front
Yes, I've been a bit slack on the blogging front this week....but not really...
I'm in the process of building a new blog on a personal hosted domain and expect to finish next week when I get back to my own computer as currently I'm working on an iMac deep in the Kentish countryside surrounded (at times) by cats, rabbits, deer, badgers, moles and buzzards. I was woken this morning by Phil the pheasant shouting at some ungodly hour...
On the SL front, the big news is Rod at SLCC promising to polish more.... good, polishing and clearing the pizza crumbs out of the servers would be great, after all, Viewer 3.0 hasn't rocked anyone's world. Inara Pey has a good report ...here. Personally I am not much of a conference person though I have been to a few in my time, I enjoyed the socialising but Rod could have blogged everything he said, it would have been more available, maybe.
The Evil Google+ has attracted more and more press Wizard has a link to a few posts in her Drama Blog including a link to the new NetPolitik by Miso. Rod did seem to understand the privacy issue in his speech, which is just as well remembering how annoyed the WoW folk got when a change was attempted over there.
Great image by Botgirl ... here. ....and a story here.
...and on the subject of names....the stupid Display Name idea has turned sour as most of us predicted it would. It's a shame companies are so reluctant to admit they got it wrong (even Coke had to) and I guess SL will never go back to two names, or even three in the registration...but a good post on that ...here.... by Avril Korman.
Anyway, I'll get back to building a website and weeding inbetween ..... god...code is a nightmare...
Have a good weekend.
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Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Country Life 2 ... Back at Home
Quite sorry to leave this house in the country and go back home, but very glad to have my own computer and my wonderful bed. Nothing quite like home.
This is a new flower border that we planted up in April out at the house in the country... (not my house ....if you missed my previous post)
...and this is it 4 months old. It will hopefully bulk out over the next 3 years..... if the rabbits can be kept away. It took most of the winter to remove 60 years ivy growth from the walls, but well worth it next year when the clematis really start to take off.
Back at my desk for a few days now before heading off to another country house to look after the poorly cat while the resident family of humans is away in Sri Lanka... strange sort of thing to do, (not going to Sri Lanka, house sitting) but it makes for a free holiday for me.
This next one starts on Saturday, and the house boasts the slowest internet connection this Millenium... oh well... patience is a virtue they say, tho in this case it's a virtual virtue.
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This is a new flower border that we planted up in April out at the house in the country... (not my house ....if you missed my previous post)
...and this is it 4 months old. It will hopefully bulk out over the next 3 years..... if the rabbits can be kept away. It took most of the winter to remove 60 years ivy growth from the walls, but well worth it next year when the clematis really start to take off.
Back at my desk for a few days now before heading off to another country house to look after the poorly cat while the resident family of humans is away in Sri Lanka... strange sort of thing to do, (not going to Sri Lanka, house sitting) but it makes for a free holiday for me.
This next one starts on Saturday, and the house boasts the slowest internet connection this Millenium... oh well... patience is a virtue they say, tho in this case it's a virtual virtue.
:))
London Calling.
I don't live in London anymore .... I was thinking of the song...
From Jeff Hobb's account of the Peasant's Revolt
"The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic events of English history. What began as a local revolt in Essex quickly spread across much of the south east of England, while some of the peasants took their grievances direct to the young King, Richard II, in London.
The revolt began in Essex when locals in Brentwood reacted to an over-zealous poll-tax collector. From Brentwood, resistance to tax collectors spread to neighbouring villages, while across counties such as Kent, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Norfolk, armed bands of villagers and townsmen also rose up and attacked manors and religious houses.
It was the rebels of Essex and Kent who marched on London. By 12th June, the Essex men were camped at Mile End, in fields just beyond Aldgate, and on the following day the Kentish men arrived at Blackheath. Incredibly, neither the government nor the city of London authorities seem to have been prepared, although the king was moved from Windsor to the Tower of London. During the next few days, the different bands of rebels from Essex and Kent were joined by some of London's poor, and they set about attacking political targets in the city. They burned down the Savoy Palace, which was the home of John of Gaunt - Richard II's uncle, and probably the most powerful magnate in the realm. They set fire to the Treasurer's Highbury Manor, opened prisons and destroyed legal records."
They went on to burn Chiswick, Clapham and Twickenham.
I am not on any 'side'. I am not 'for' the riots. I am simply remembering that riots have been around for as long as the rich tax the poor and, in doing so make them poorer.
The Church and State as main agents of taxation has changed slightly, it is now State and Corporations, but the effect is the same, give a person nothing to lose and they become dangerous..... and desperate.
Now, this is, of course, only one side of the story.
There are plenty of people who lived and live in poverty who would never harm another, or another's property. They have an inbuilt 'moral' guidance system that disallows them to damage others in their frustration. The Church, for all it's hypocrisy, probably helped somewhat to curtain destructive instincts within society.
What happen's though when the highest authority in the land robs neighbouring countries, i.e. Iraq, Lybia, of their oil in a blatent show of "the end justifies the means'?
What happen's when the corruption of politicians and police is front page news?
What happens when their is no genuine 'feedback' from the public to those in power as democracy is turned into a Reality Gameshow?
Well, I think that any guiding moral compass gets chucked out of the window. The idea that the poor should be the Salt of the Earth and maintain moral standards higher than those in authority will obviously be seen as a mug's game by some. Anger is bound to rise.
The stuff stolen in the riots is poor compensation for the dignity, emancipation, freedom that those involved feel they have had stolen from them, but, for a hour or two in the frenzied heat of crowd hysteria, they were empowered.
Might does never make it right, and the end never justifies the means, but when those in power set such a poor example it seems somewhat ridiculous for them to get on their moral high horses and take no blame whatsoever for the anger and frustration.
Time to look at both sides of the (growing) divide I think.
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From Jeff Hobb's account of the Peasant's Revolt
"The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 is one of the most dramatic events of English history. What began as a local revolt in Essex quickly spread across much of the south east of England, while some of the peasants took their grievances direct to the young King, Richard II, in London.
The revolt began in Essex when locals in Brentwood reacted to an over-zealous poll-tax collector. From Brentwood, resistance to tax collectors spread to neighbouring villages, while across counties such as Kent, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Norfolk, armed bands of villagers and townsmen also rose up and attacked manors and religious houses.
It was the rebels of Essex and Kent who marched on London. By 12th June, the Essex men were camped at Mile End, in fields just beyond Aldgate, and on the following day the Kentish men arrived at Blackheath. Incredibly, neither the government nor the city of London authorities seem to have been prepared, although the king was moved from Windsor to the Tower of London. During the next few days, the different bands of rebels from Essex and Kent were joined by some of London's poor, and they set about attacking political targets in the city. They burned down the Savoy Palace, which was the home of John of Gaunt - Richard II's uncle, and probably the most powerful magnate in the realm. They set fire to the Treasurer's Highbury Manor, opened prisons and destroyed legal records."
They went on to burn Chiswick, Clapham and Twickenham.
I am not on any 'side'. I am not 'for' the riots. I am simply remembering that riots have been around for as long as the rich tax the poor and, in doing so make them poorer.
The Church and State as main agents of taxation has changed slightly, it is now State and Corporations, but the effect is the same, give a person nothing to lose and they become dangerous..... and desperate.
Now, this is, of course, only one side of the story.
There are plenty of people who lived and live in poverty who would never harm another, or another's property. They have an inbuilt 'moral' guidance system that disallows them to damage others in their frustration. The Church, for all it's hypocrisy, probably helped somewhat to curtain destructive instincts within society.
What happen's though when the highest authority in the land robs neighbouring countries, i.e. Iraq, Lybia, of their oil in a blatent show of "the end justifies the means'?
What happen's when the corruption of politicians and police is front page news?
What happens when their is no genuine 'feedback' from the public to those in power as democracy is turned into a Reality Gameshow?
Well, I think that any guiding moral compass gets chucked out of the window. The idea that the poor should be the Salt of the Earth and maintain moral standards higher than those in authority will obviously be seen as a mug's game by some. Anger is bound to rise.
The stuff stolen in the riots is poor compensation for the dignity, emancipation, freedom that those involved feel they have had stolen from them, but, for a hour or two in the frenzied heat of crowd hysteria, they were empowered.
Might does never make it right, and the end never justifies the means, but when those in power set such a poor example it seems somewhat ridiculous for them to get on their moral high horses and take no blame whatsoever for the anger and frustration.
Time to look at both sides of the (growing) divide I think.
:||
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