Setting up a hackerspace in Southampton

Time – almost 3 years ? Cost of commercial space Regulations – constraining progress Fear preventing renting a place Liability Demand / Passion / Interest Council Comparing to allotments Subsidisation Business sponsorship / investment Location Model Engineering Societies Legalities Charity Comparisons with new hackerspaces in comparable countries and cities

Roll on 2025 …

“Big society” … ha ha ha … nice try blue/yellow liars … No … I won’t be volunteering to do the WORK … the way this is going to “go down” is that the wealth stolen from most of the YOUNG (those born after 1970) by many of the OLD (those born before 1970), WILL …

Follow up to you-will-prise-my-pc-from-my-cold-dead-hands

So, now using eMusic because they “get it” … eventually they all will, till then eMusic gets my monthly sub – which is the way the business model should always have worked. Any tracks I want that aren’t available on eMusic, I’ll get through Soundike, because globalisation is suppose to benefit everyone ;O)

Ubuntu Everywhere

After close to a decade of “playing” with Linux, mainly in server type roles. I have finally opted to ditch Windows as the main OS for all my machines, where ever and when ever possible. I have four machines which I regularly use … three desktops (two home, one work) and a work laptop … …

You will prise my PC from my cold dead hands …

 Quite frankly these people can go fuck themselves, their product (and remember that is all they do, sell you something !) simply does not have the value to me that they appear to believe it does … http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/07/197201 I WILL stop buying their product and seek alternative sources of music if they actually manage to …

Commercializing the Nintendo Wii For The Leisure Industry

Random thoughts on how the leisure industry could go about commercializing the Nintendo Wii – this is going to get thrashed around … Givens The Nintendo Wii is an amazing product. Personally, I haven’t seen a product bring together people of all ages, abilities and social groupings so much since, well probably the television. The …

Cheap Multitouch / Surface-ish Computing

Following on from https://mobilebeamer.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/surface-computing/ … A very cool demonstration of just how useful the Nintendo Wii can be … The author has a bunch of other videos about similar Nintendo Wii hacks, all very cool and most importantly accessible to pretty much anyone with a Wii and a small extra outlay.

CCTV

I don’t like being spied on. I therefore don’t like CCTV, at least not the current implementations … CCTV systems are justified by the statement that they prevent crime, or, at the very least, provide evidence to facilitate the successful conviction of criminals. Fair enough if it were true, but it isn’t … the criminals …

Surface Computing

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Yet another cool technology to come out of Micro$oft. Would be fantastic in a pub / club environment. Hopefully one of the “trendier” places at Gunny will pick up on it soonish 🙂