Jim Barter : Digital Imagination

…um, I missed this (as it seems did everyone else) - but the w3’s WAI site has had a re-build and redesign.

Woo Hoo!

Except one thing - it is as ugly as heck, c’mon guys it’s 2005! Accessible does not mean ugly - please try harder.

Domain for sale, www.cybo.co.uk could belong to you.

Make me an offer - 5 figures - serious offers only.

Why is it for sale? - because it says nothing about me and I plan to move to something a little more ‘personal’.

Why would you want it? - because you are looking for an easily identifiable brand to sell your new hi-tech product or you are a global communications company looking for a ’sub-brand’.

There are many reasons you might want cybo. If you need me to tell you them then you probably can’t afford it.

Go ahead - you know it makes sense.

…well not this one, but this one is.

Why?

Well, back in the days when books were printed on paper, due to the way the sheets were folded and cut, you’d often end up with ‘blank pages’, at the end of the book, publishers put “This page is intentionally left blank”, on there to stop people thinking they were missing the last pages of the book.

Try it yourself, take a sheet of A4 paper, fold it in half across its width, then again, now slice off the narrow folded edge, you should have an eight page A6 booklet, but what if you only had 7 pages of text?

…yup, “This page is intentionally left blank”.

In order to preserve the spirit of the dead tree age, this website, urges people to create a blank page on their site…

…as a person that used to work with deadtrees, I quite like the idea.

i believe in MP3
i believe in P2P
i just burnt my own CD
the day the music was free……
in the 21st century - the day the music was free!….

I believe in P 2 P…………..supersharers…
A billion downloads can1t be wrong…
A billion people heard my song….
So, Goodbye Mr Copyright…
the fame will keep me up all night..

I just surfed right down your street
sampled your tune, borrowed your beat
that’s the way the bytes go round
they make the revolution sound…

Shakespeare, Michael Angelo
Had no corporation Hos
Def to majors, their lawyers suck
Now people don’t give a fuck!

in the 21st century -
the day the music was free!….

AaaaaaaH, save KaZaa…..

by James/Jones

James/Jones are Tony James And Mick Jones, together they make up two members of four peice outfit Carbon/Silicon (CSi) the best thing to happen to british music since Wendy James, just not as pretty.

If you think you recognise the names James & Jones, thats ‘cos they used to be leading lights in Generation-X, Sigue Sigue Sputnik and The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite.

And if thats not a musical pedigree to be proud of, I dunno what is.

The other two members of CSi are William Blake: bass and Danny theRed: Drums, dunno there backgrounds but they sure know how to play!

As you can tell by the lyrics to the song above, they have a rather enlightened policy with regard to copyright.

Check ‘em out!

The Book Baton
‘parrantly I’m sposed to write some stuff ’bout books - here goes…

Number of books on the shelf
dunno, havn’t counted ‘em, um.
1… 2… many?

Seriously, i’ve gotta say - probably over 200, plus books on the floor, stairs, top of the toilet cistern, side of the bath, etc.

Last Book Purchased
Rough guide to Devon and Cornwall
for me hol’s later this year…

Book Reading Right Now
The Alaskan Bootleggers Bible
For the winter, if I can make my own hooch without blowing the house up, i’ll let you know how i get on

Last 5 Books Read
Tailoring Prince 2
The Measure of Albion
Life of Pi
A Short Hostory of Nearly Everything
Preparing for BS7799 Certification

Books that mean a lot to me
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien, would my teenage hippy years have been as soulful and fullfilling without? (apply sarcasm filter)
Behold the Man - Micheal Morecock, tought me more about religeon than the church ever did.
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlan, a very human novel.
…and many, many, more…

Passing this on to…
Um, no-one, I am the bottom of the blogging pile, and proud of it!

An extreamly well observed comment from an american blogger.

http://william.torkington.com/movies/20050716-7words.mov

be grateful ur kids dont go to american schools.

Well from yesterday ’shrooms are now a class A drug.

I haven’t taken any for years, but I remember the little fellas fondly and with a happy grin.

Seems a shame that our ‘Nanny State’ feels that it must clamp down on this harmless (if you know what you’re doing) pastime.

So instead of being able to buy ’shrooms legally with good advice about what to expect, the trade will be drivin into the hands of the underground and all that that entails…

…great.

The pledge to not register for a National ID card has been successful, this means that over 10,000 people (not counting duplicates and false posts) have registered to defy the National ID card should it become law.

More people are still needed however, 10,000 is just the beginning, add your name today and make a difference.

http://www.no2id.net

Being the “ego-centric narcisist” I apparantly am (see ex girlfriend), I occasionally google my own name (yeah - sad…).

Anyway, I was quite pleasantly suprised today to find that the top 7 out of 10 on google were all me

And even more suprised that the 10th link reffered to a book I apparantly wrote and then forgot all about!

Looking a bit further it turns out that James Barter is quite a prolific author, having writen 41 books…

…This one is my favorite so far.

update: I’m also a character in a play set in ‘nam. I sure do get around a lot!

A nice implementation of an NT thread about essential applications that designers (for the most part) used on their mac’s.

http://www.coolosxapps.net/