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So here we are in Twenty Ten, with the same blog setup. That’ll change… Meanwhile, City Neighborhood Posters by Ork caught my eye because it looks familiar. If you read the Literary Birmingham part...
Following on from the incomplete post, here’s Fake is the New Real’s US-based scheme, where the political boundaries are those of urban areas: cities, metropolities, sprawl. Each blue bit fits int...
My efforts to publish a bit more frequently have met with resistance in the form of conflicting priorities. Priorities like looking for work, working, recovering from work, and tending to the other...
The November 5 Planning Committee meeting will consider a request to hide scaffolding on the Beneficial Building with a banner. The request is set out on the Council website, and in a PDF. The requ...
Surprising that a search turns up just one use of the phrase, and that from three years ago. I reckon it’s time to revive it, if only this once. Freecycle is Evil freecycled_out - Community Profil...
Garden Guerillas Dig In To Fight Court Decision (from The Herald ) BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Legal row over derelict land use North Kelvin Meadow Campaign - Google Searc...
It’s nearly time for some website redevelopment. The ten blogs I’ve set up under this domain are going to get combined, which means that various links will stop working. Half of those blogs were se...
It’s nearly time for some website redevelopment. The ten blogs I’ve set up under this domain are going to get combined, which means that various links will stop working. Half of those blogs were se...
It’s nearly time for some website redevelopment. The ten blogs I’ve set up under this domain are going to get combined, which means that various links will stop working. Half of those blogs were se...
Photographer’s panoramic vision turns decay into art | detnews.com | The Detroit News Michigan Central Station, Detroit, the waiting room. The Decline of America in 360 Panoramic photography, phot...
This speaks to my experience. “Students don’t have problems finding internships, students have problems getting internships,” Eric Normington, the company’s chief marketing officer, said by telepho...
With all the talk about internet blocking, malware, censorship and the like, I thought I’d look around for some alternative internets. But in doing so I found that the mis-spelled alterntative brou...
There is no technical requirement that the Internet’s only root server be the A server in Virginia. To use a different root server, an ISP merely edits a couple of lines of in-house computer code. ...
1. How can I use XnView to upload photos to a directory on my website (e.g. FTP) and to one of my hosted photo services (e.g. 23, EasyCaptures, Panoramio, Picasa, TinyPic)? +email +client
In travelling around Birmingham, when I want to get somewhere I haven’t been before, I mostly go by bus. So I need a reliable, easy method of identifying routes and timetables. Let’s say I want to...
In travelling around Birmingham, when I want to get somewhere I haven’t been before, I mostly go by bus. So I need a reliable, easy method of identifying routes and timetables. Let’s say I want to ...
Googling ‘mental maps’, the interesting results. Mental maps versus physical cartography Mental maps are a personal way of representing geographical space: instead of considering a place in its ab...
Today’s Birmingham Post ran a story about a new commercial kitchen hygiene rating scheme called Scores on the Door, where restaurants, diners, canteens and even mobile kitchens are given a rating o...
A smallish part of the reasons for lack of more and longer blogposts here and elsewhere is the awkwardness of using the software. I think I may have fixed that. I haven’t ever shelled out for one o...
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Occasionally the Birmingham Post ges a bit ahead of itself by reporting from the future, as shown in this screenshot. The time of the screenshot is shown in the masthead, as 7:53 PM, March 29th. Th...
As usual, top stuff Joanna. I’d like to make three broad comments, but they have to be brief as I’m woozy from lack o’ sleep. 1 & 2: Perceptions of friendliness online and in person are unpredictab...
A story similar to the one Peter Marcuse tells about asset-stripping of New York City tenements, but in a different context: This is the vision of recycling we all want to hold dear in our heads as...
Checking in at marbury led me to Noise Addicts and some entertaining comments, then on to the also entertaining Everything, and from there to Fossfor.us, which is an acronym for Free Open Source So...
I haven’t come across examples of this before - where someone applies a metaphor for one sort of dereliction to the virtual, the webscape - other than my own thoughts on the topic. A bit of proof ...
Making a Sideblog or Linkblog | General Tips and Tricks | Learning Movable Type looks like it might come in handy for my next site redesign.
Opening Times “What time is that shop open again? It’s a question we all ask from time to time, and yet one which the web is quite poor at answering. Websites differ greatly in how they present o...
This could be useful as a teaching device to show people about setting up mail accounts. Say that I want to show someone how to retrieve mail from a server. Plug a memory stick onto their machine, ...
Here’s a list of Web browsers for Windows including several I hadn’t heard of. K-Meleon kmeleonbrowser.org Download version 1.5.1 Amaya W3C Download version 10 Maxthon Browser Maxthon Do...
Provides useful information aboutIP(s) a site is hosted on, Parent domains, Name servers, and other stuff. Request a URL in the format http://www.sitedossier.com/site/domain.netFor example http://w...
I’m a bit surprised that I am the first one to say something about linking a specific phrase with a given website between now and next Tuesday night. What I want to achieve will be obvious to many,...
TARA ATKINSON - AUDIO/VISUAL ARTIST PRODUCER http://www.taraatkinson.blogspot.com/ In Transition is a collaboration between both Lucy Tucker ( Creative Contemporary Practice at Leeds Met) and myse...
Bosses at Burson Land say they want to make sure the land is put to use rather than left derelict, until the housing scheme can be resurrected. The old church building was flattened in 2007 to make...
Teachers and students GenesisIV is the only landscape product designed specifically to help teach geograph...
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- After 40 Years, Kwanzaa Spreads Its Roots - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/after-40-years-does-kwanzaa-still-resonate/?partner=rss&emc=rss - Hope and ru...
As the Telegraph is a broadsheet redtop, I cannot take it at face value, but this piece strikes me as interesting nonetheless. Paul Groves put it this way: …scientists in Japan have have create...
Something that may change the way I blog, from here …probably using WP-o-matic, blog fans… to here WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you c...
I know there are other phone number reporting websites, but Who Calls Me is the one that came up when I put in the number for Virgin Media’s txt-to-voice scheme. This is a user supplied database ...
It seems that the Andy Warhol (or Bill Weegee?) inspired campaign art is making its way into other places and spaces. First this shows up as Sarkozy attempts to recast himself in Obama’s image. Th...
Good Reading via Techno I’m particularly liking Marbury, and may check back on Copyblogger. The Pulitzer-prize-winners-2008 is already a bit out of date. The link is broken. So go here to see who’s...
I started this blog as a more useful alternative to services like delicious, googlemarks and so on. It’s meant as a cuttings file for future reference with the functions of a blog. In some respects...
I. There is public art, and then there’s public art. Nathan Coley, the sculptor/photographer involved here, does not do the lipstick-on-the gorilla kind of public art that is intended to sanctify o...
After much more to-ing and fro-ing with map tools, I’ve got an example of the results I want. (Note: I have made further additions to this map since writing this post, so it is probably in its fin...
Embedded OpenStreetMap Zoom in to level 12 View Larger Map coordinates: NW:52.5,-2 SE 52.4,-1.8 iframe width=”600″ height=”600″ (size of display box) bbox=-17.3,43.1,13.5,60.2 (lat/long of box side...
Further mining of the data collected on Tuesday’s Outer Circuit is proceeding through the use of open source map imagery from OpenStreetMap (OSM), GPS Trackmaker, the previously mentioned GeoSetter...
Having spent a good chunk of the evening playing with a combination of GeoSetter, XnView and GPSVisualizer,I’m starting to get some usable results in map form. This is a plot of the points where m...
I managed to make one complete 80km circuit on the 11A between 12:55 and 15:20. According to my GPS unit, that is, which apparently includes the vertical travel as well as the horizontal. I think ...
Three items of interest. 1. A book 2. A website from the Obama-Biden transition Project; the source for the latest news, events, and announcements so that you can follow the setting up of the Ob...
How do other people find the time to write more than a line or two? I.Not long ago D made a suggestion about using mothballed development sites as temporary art displays. A neighbourhood group in G...
I’ve been experimenting with comment aggregators BackType and CoComment. Each has something I like, and each has apparent shortcomings. I like BackType because it’s well-presented, has tools for lo...
Yesterday I flagged up the fledgling Friends of Key Hill Cemetery website and noted that it could do with a bit of adjustment, in the hope that a community-minded webhead would offer some support. ...
They’ve given us a profile (and a bit of a walkthrough), but where’s the context? I was out pushing a mower today, so missed the best public space news of the year, as announced here, here, here, h...
BBC NEWS | England | Northamptonshire | ‘Pocket park’ created from dump Type Web Page URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/7612639.stm Accessed 13 September 2008 13:30:3...
These might come in handy if I can ever clarify a couple of conceptual points about cloned drives and how to make them. 5 Free Apps to Clone Your Hard Drive - Download Squad
Creating animated JPGs - Sequential JPG display with a little JavaScript and a dash of creativity, we can easily make an “animated” jpg.
Doodlebuzz Typographic explorer.Says it all. Except that it’s brilliant fun to try and spell Birmingham, or draw the No. 11 route and see what headlines it gets.
[courtesy of] I wonder whether Ubiquity would be worth trying against the Artsfest sites.
City gardening goes green (Journal Blog Central) The Workers’ Educational Association (WEA), the country’s largest voluntary provider of adult education, and the Soil Association, the UK’s leading ...
The first link led me to each of the others - and a commenting system that purports to track my comments, or else track comments across a multitude of blogs, such as those below. Find, Follow and ...
I am looking for suggestions of a lexical sort, a label for a concept, a concept about scare-mongering words employed to shut down exploration or discussion. Examples? I’ve come up with one, so fa...
This is the small house I’d go for out of this bunch, though I would very much like to spend time in the treehouses too. For me, domestic space is both flexible and accommodates a workshop or benc...
GMDesk - run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a stand-alone installable application GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google M...
PureText Have you ever copied some text from a web page or a document and then wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source...
Map Channels lets users easily embed maps into websites and blogs. The site takes KML or GeoRSS map data and adds features and options to customize the map appearance and fulfil a range of mapping ...
Rather, it’s another piece of roadside junk masquerading as a source of inspiration, and which might be nicknamed ‘Collapse of Smokestack Industry‘ in the fine Brummie tradition of giving crude ni...
This post concerns two things: a nifty search-renderer called Tianamo (no, it’s not a hybrid of Tiananmen and Guantanamo!) and a bit of lame reporting about Birmingham (UK). First, the good news. T...
This comment, while aimed at global drinks chain Starbucks, is applicable to Birmingham’s effort to position itself as a ‘global city with a local heart’. “It’s much easier for the local store to d...
My plans for a Daysaver excursion now have a parallel over at B:INS in the form of a group event aboard No. 11 buses. The is based on instantiations of elevens: getting on a Number 11 on November 1...
Thanks to Jon Bounds and Travel West Midlands, I have a one day bus pass that will probably be used for the longest journey I can manage, complete with photos. I did this last year, when my last...
U.S. Strengthens Zimbabwe Sanctions - NYTimes.com WASHINGTON — President Bush expanded sanctions against Zimbabwe on Friday even as he held out the possibility of a reversal in American policy if n...
Art - More awesome inflatable subway bag animals New York magazine interviewed artist Joshua Allen Harris regarding his continued adventures with subway grate bag art Street Art: Joshua Alle...
Big Blue Saw has a free part day - August 6th… Big Blue Saw, a leading online retailer of machining services, announces the first Free Part Day, allowing everyone to receive a custom m...
The Changing Face of British Homes report reveals the findings of Legal & General’s ongoing research which surveyed over 27,000 people across the UK on how our home life is changing.The Chang...
I have discovered that Omea will save a series of feed links and snippets in a very straightforward fashion. I have set about categorising and organising the accumulated items of interest. This is ...
voluntaryskills.com - Home Page voluntaryskills.com is the leading website for Third Sector skills and training in the North East & Cumbria, and won ‘Best Voluntary Sector Website’ in the North Eas...
The question refers to ways of making a set of sitemaps showing who has linked to whom, with an underlying intention of one or more starting points for a journey of discovery. That sentence is su...
Some links to check newcastlegraft star and shadow ouseburn festival recyke-y-bike waygood the art works galleries flickr SMLP: Whatever you want it to mean! Risk Newcastle Daily Photo our man in...
When this city declared the aging Bohemian Hill neighborhood blighted and opened the door to the possibility of using eminent domain to redevelop it, social activist Jim Roos decided to protest i...
Drive down Grand River at Vinewood on a sunny day and the light is nearly blinding as it bounces off an estimated 4,000 pieces of mirrored glass affixed to artist Olayame Dabls’ African Bead Museum...
UltraISO is an easy to use utility to create, edit and convert CD image files. It can edit CD image files directly, create an image from a CD-ROM or build a new one from files on your computer. Yo...
BBC NEWS | Education | Firms ‘not taking training cash’ About £15m of government funds set aside for work-related training has not been taken up and has been reallocated, Skills Secretary John Denh...
Watch David Barrie explain how to spatialize an edible landscape in Middlesbrough, England — one that can actually have an impact on the physical grid and economic infrastructure of a city. But if ...
Glenn Kulbako Photography: The Beautifully Mundane Images of Ed Panar The Beautifully Mundane Images of Ed PanarFor years, I have been secretly taking photographs of cracks in sidewalks, nondescrip...
Abandonded Cities, Towns and Buildings Source: Rue The Day! Technorati keyword: derelict 08/07/2008 06:26 washington d.c. urban derelicts: bicrooting Technorati keyword: derelict 09/07/2008 18...
It looks like Google are beginning to release walking-related information with their maps. It’s not accurate, but perhaps it’ll develop into something better soon. I asked it about getting from St ...
From the San Francisco Chronicle “People don’t understand that there has always been a small but very significant element of conservatives who have been against the war from day one and who, like m...
Never mind Tent City, how about Hammock Grove? This is a camping area at the Rothbury music festival in western Michigan. Pocket Astrays?
Jefferson was a particular fan of Joseph Priestley, a scientist, ordained minister and one of Jefferson’s friends. Priestley — who discovered oxygen and invented carbonated water and the rubber era...
This is interesting because it applies to places other than gardens: Lord Justice Moses, in giving judgment that the definition was out of date, said there was a fashion for wild gardens. “No descr...
It’s not often that I eat Pringles anyway - mostly at Nigel & Sabine’s - but now I’m going to wonder what they are made of, given a High Court ruling that they are not potato. Pringles, Procter & G...
“If it were not for the American effort, the life of the citizens of Iraq would be a living hell,” said Tomberlin, pastor at Cherry Hill Presbyterian Church in Dearborn. “I would not describe it as...
I have been looking for another photo hosting service since Zoto stalled in its tracks. 23 is a long-established but obscure photo service that got mentioned a Lifehacker comment last month, so I h...
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My sense is that none of these scenes would happen in Birmingham. Is it a cultural squeamishness, a desire to avoid giving offence, the wrong kind of weather, or have I got the wrong impress...
Growing Food for London conference which opens today. The event, held at City Hall, will bring together a coalition of environmentalists, food growers, park-keepers and architects to discuss how be...
I am using the U3 memory stick installation of Microsoft Live Writer to edit this post. Microsoft’s Live Writer is not written to work natively on a Windows 2000 machine, but only for XP and later...
Shipping container full of medical waste dumped at derelict fun parkLIVENEWS.com.au, Australia - Jun 27, 2008Investigations are under way into how a shipping container full of medical waste and r...
Technorati tags: IWantOne From the MAKE Flickr photo pool: Pico Hydroelectric Generator in 5 gallon bucket developed by Sam Redfield and tested at La Florida in Guatemala. The generator is mea...
Reader Chris Burke painted a useful and good-looking magnetic whiteboard in his office—cleverly, in the shape of a speech bubble. Burke explains: I needed a new whiteboard so I found some paint...
This is strong language over the self/public dichotomy, but it’s more compelling given that it comes from someone with a strong presence in public life. Letters - What Do Graduates Owe the World? -...
On Street Use, Kevin Kelly has a few pics of hand-made bike-building tools, spotted in bike shops in Rwanda. Rwandan Hammers Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Bicycles | ...
One of the commenters has already asked if atheists are to be included in the scheme. It may as well be extended to non-faith-based support people, like agony aunts, friends, and cheerleaders. Bar...
krou writes “Naomi Klein writes in Rolling Stone Magazine about China’s Panopticon-like experiment called ‘Golden Shield’ taking place in Shenzhen using technology supplied by companies such as I...
A woman accused of having a knife in public has walked free from court - saved by a sausage, lawyers said today guardian.co.uk
Acpo president Ken Jones said officers would still use discretion. He said: “But the point at which they now would consider this individual has no previous conviction, there are no aggravating fact...
Two Christians claim police stopped them leafleting in an area of Birmingham where many Muslims live. 7430085.stm
Windows only: Freeware application webcamXP turns your webcam into a security camera by streaming live broadcasts over the internet or scheduling captures at regular intervals. Once installed, you’...
Roland Piquepaille writes “According to European researchers, modern buses could be used as mobile sensing platforms, sending out live information to be used to control traffic and detect road haza...
CloudFire aims to let you share photos, movies, music, from your desktop right to the web. And not just to the web, but in a very lovely and seamless way based on the screens we’ve seen. Read | P...
Filed under: Internet, Windows, Web services, Freeware, Beta Have a couple of web-based applications that you need quick and easy access to on a regular basis? You could set your browser homepag...
If you want to use Omea’s database on a different machine, all you need to do is to copy the database files which contain all information about your resources, and next time you install Omea, you h...
The Reed website is being very temperamental, so I’ve saved these jobsearch results for later perusal IT Technician, ICT Technician,Transport Planning Consultant - Birmingham,Geotechnical/Environme...
23 is new-ish photo service that seems to have just about everything I want: it recognises and converts IPTC to tags; relatively easy to upload batches (via e-mail, no less); has a blog fun...
A relatively new photo service that does most, maybe all of what I want: recognises and converts IPTC to tags; relatively easy to upload batches (via e-mail, no less); reasonably priced, not affil...
New screenshot display and storage service. Doesn’t actually take the shots, nor edit them. But hey, it’s still good. Uploading is easy enough. Apparently XP users have an uploader available.
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Resurgence • Section Web Exclusives > Article Resurgence Web exclusives are online-only articles selected by our editors for their relevance and high quality. As a bi-monthly magazine, we rarely ha...
“In the UK for instance, a lot of arts funding comes from the lottery, so ordinary taxpayers don’t need to feel they’re supporting possibly dodgy artworks.” David Byrne Journal: 05.28.2008: Robin ...
“In the UK for instance, a lot of arts funding comes from the lottery, so ordinary taxpayers don’t need to feel they’re supporting possibly dodgy artworks.” David Byrne Journal: 05.28.2008: Robin...
Black bloggers fight to make voices heard “The progressive blogosphere is segregated,” said McCauley, whose What About Our Daughters blog was accepted to the DNC’s blogger pool. Essence magazine na...
Families swap 4×4s for wheelbarrows in Richmond | News It looks like a wheelbarrow attached to a bike - but transport experts believe it could be the solution to school-run traffic. See also: htt...
Ready2Search is a Web tool to simplify procedures for making and loading search plug-ins. In addition, Ready2Search is useful to save and transmit the search settings. How to make search plug-in th...
Unattended, A Windows deployment system: Welcome This is a system for fully automating the installation of Windows 2000 Professional and Server, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. There are sever...
Fredericks Foundation What does the Fredericks Foundation do? We aim to help those people with nowhere else to turn to realise their potential. This is achieved by providing resources to individual...
Britain has always been a place where, if someone asks, “Why?” and the answer is, “Because we’ve been doing it that way for the last 800 years,” the conversation is pretty much over. Source: Britis...
While the UK Payments Council is considering doing away with cheques as a standard means of transaction, I’d like to know why they don’t go one step further and call time on banknotes as well. It’s...
Suggs says that his interest in the area began when he first read about the of the ‘liberty’. ‘It was outside the law - the law was inside the walls; on the outside you could just do what you liked...
Describes Mr Brown as “annoying, bewildering and prickly”. Describes self as…? Source: Blair scared of Brown - Prescott
In the 1950s - despite the best efforts of Elvis - there wasn’t much to listen to on UK radio besides the shipping forecast. The radio waves were seen as being far too powerful to be turned over to...
Giant horse could be new ‘Angel of the South’ - Times Online Alexi Mostrous The North-South divide widened a little today as designs for a sculpture twice as high as the Angel of the North were un...
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There’s more to dereliction than shuttered shops and factories. It’s also about diminished expectations, locked-up resources, and the refusal to think comprehensively. The Kirkdale area of Liver...
Why do I think this has resonance with international politics? What happens when one ape trained in sign language meets another equally proficient ape for the first time? Not communication, it turn...
“Although he was occasionally one himself, Manzoni hated pedestrians, as revealed when referring to the Council decision not to proceed with legislation to make it illegal for pedestrians to cross ...
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Aye, what topsy-turvy times we know. Would Phidippides have any what we mean by Olympic in 2008? For that matter, do we have a clear The sporting event that was invented in 1896 seems to have taken...
Zoto is a photo-hosting service that performs to a higher standard than more widely known services like Flickr and Picasa. It provides unlimited space, a very useful uploading tool (better than Pic...
I’ve had to destroy that part of my website. It may also mean the end of this blog too. Story here. I’m not sure what happens after 7 days.
It is difficult to talk about local politics without getting personal, and without feeling soiled by the experience. But it’s more important to develop a political voice, so I accept that it’s mess...
Had a couple of today that are worth setting out for further development. Made mental notes about both. Have forgot the second. One: now that the renovation of New Street Station is underway, what...
A few posts ago I mentioned that I’d start compiling a list of local blogs: voluntary groups, local or regional community groups with a blog. Today I came across Vale Mail, a Wordpress-powered and ...
Let me say that again: What Does Your Future Brum Look Like? Does it look like this, maybe just a little bit? Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert asked architects, city planners, and transportation...
Two thoughts. One: ‘the privatisation of public space’ is a phrase that’s probably broadly understood, and is exemplified by the creation of outdoor spaces that are owned by private interests, poli...
This week I spotted a hedgehog in the garden. Last night I spotted my neighbours having a birthday party, to which I was invited, and spent some time as unofficial photographer. Of about 80 photos,...
Three posts in less than a year. Not so shabby. And the arguably shabby Modified-It-Myself Triton power shower in my bathroom is about to get an upgrade. Which makes a coincidental and fitting subj...
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