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New Year’s Sunrise in Oulu

Originally uploaded by ptrktn

lovely pic on flickr (not by me!)

Shoez

Originally uploaded by battez

sent from my mobile phone

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an untitled masterpiece evoking the Glasgow summer.

By Evis Perdikou, a Glasgow-based artist.

flickr pic

Originally uploaded by battez
Music never lets you down

Puts a smile on your face

Any time, anyplace…

(and especial thanks to Daze who ran through the crowd to get the autograph)

An interesting, and recently done site devoted to the final Merzbau project of artist Schwitters, unfinished Merzbarn in Cumbria:
http://www.merzbarn.net/

there is also a wonderful Dutch site on the barn project - with detailed photographs and outline of the work.

in the above video clip, from a generously posted series, is Max Ernst and toward the beginning, short footage of the Merzbarn, and Schwitters during the war.

Interesting news today that I read on Slashdot: a Nokia Maemo (e.g. nokia 770 / 800 / 810 series ) project called Liqbase (liqbase.net) has been accepted as a Google summer of code entrant.
this is great news as it seems a wonderful, fun project, and creatively simple in its idea of converting the tablet into an enhanced piece of paper. It won’t work on my 770 but will be ported to 800 (if not already - need to check). 800s are pretty cheap now.
check out the videos and the feature descriptions in the home-page:
http://liqbase.net/
Luke

this seems like a great Linux distro - small to download, even as a live CD, can install to SDHC for eee-pc use and so on. Also comes with GParted, so should be able to re-format our ext3 disk:
guide to puppy linux - http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6171315.html

there is a way to mount ext3 OS X (Leopard only? ) http://fuz2y.com/?p=1 according to that post. We have a USB drive we use to backup our work server.
We have a NAS at work - it failed to format the attached USB drive as FAT so we did it as ext3, then thought we could easily format this in another OS as FAT, as the NAS software seems a bit scant sometimes.
We are now having to download a mini linux live CD to try this way, if I cannot get the mac way above to work. Gah!

a short poem by some poster on Digg
My intentions are good, but the execution is poor. As I lie on the ceiling and stare at the floor