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13 May 2012
Posted by Nad on 13 May 2012 at 22:03
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This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia Kuala Lumpur - It's official; George W Bush is a war criminal. In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia. The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. (read more) See also: Tony Blair & George Bush convicted War Criminals - better information in this article Malaysian tribunal finds Bush guilty of war crimes - includes video of the hearing Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Day 1 Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Day 2 Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Day 3 Criminalise War - War crimes list and more info about the charges 30 Nov 2011: Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal: Bush and Blair Guilty

21 February 2007
Posted by Nad on 20 February 2007 at 20:49
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This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format Cuba to use open-source software The government of Cuba decided to change the OS on thousands of its computers. These will run on Linux instead of Windows. This step made by the Cuban government raises tensions between the country and the U.S. - based company Microsoft. The idea was welcomed by several Cuban ministers. This includes Ramiro Valdez, communication minister, who at a technology conference stated his position towards moving to open source software. Richard Stallman, heading the Free Software Foundation, criticized the proprietary software saying that today it is rather insecure. Heading one of the largest universities in Cuba, Hector Rodriguez also showed his positive attitude towards the migration of the country to open source software. He outlined that Cuban customs service has already moved to Linux and several ministries are still to migrate. Among them are the ministries of culture, of higher education and of communication. Although it will take some time for Cuba to move to open source software, Rodriguez, as quoted by the Associated Press, declined to state the time it will take for the government of Cuba to move entirely to Linux. The pace of migrating to open source software is very fast in Cuba. The idea of using Linux instead of Windows is largely discussed by the governments of other countries, including Venezuela, China, Russia and Brazil. From [to use open-source software|WikiNews]

25 April 2013
Posted by Nad on 25 April 2013 at 11:11
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This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format Food forests going viral! Geoff Lawton, one of the original figures in Permaculture wants to make the knowledge of how to grow self-sustaining food forests available to the world to transform the planet. These food forests are living systems which can thrive anywhere from areas of heavy snow to deserts to densely populated cities. He's put out three videos so far which are a must-watch for anyone sustainability minded - especially those who want to start growing their own food! Video 1: Surviving the coming crises Video 2: The Property Purchase Checklist Video 3: Five Acre Abundance on a Budget Greening The Desert Well it turns out the course is $1000 which although good value from the western middle-class perspective, is completely unthinkable for most of the planet's population where over half the people earn less than $2 per day and the vast majority are struggling merely to keep their family fed, clothed and housed. Hi Geoff, I really got the sense from your initial video introductions that you wanted to change the world by making this invaluable knowledge available to all who were receptive to it. You made it sound as though you'd got to a sustainable and abundant position in life and didn't need to make huge piles of cash from it. But instead it's just another capitalist marketing scheme which is completely inaccessible to 99% of the people on the planet. Bitterly disappointed, Aran

11 July 2008
Posted by Nad on 10 July 2008 at 13:47
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This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format Organic Design on first page for Google searches For some reason we've been ranking really highly for a quite a few keywords, but we haven't ever paid attention to meta-tags or any other ranking factors. Here's a list of some Google searches for which we appear on the first page (some of them number 1!) or have done in the past. current pages current users legacy projects sysop procedures, incomplete procedures mediawiki workshop, mediawiki code, mediawiki security, mediawiki examples nodal network, nodal model, nodal reduction, binary traversal, node space, list space, gate space humanistic theories creating a debian package, debian package procedure, debian workstation package, debian workstation procedure P2P Web4, p2p mediawiki wiki workflow, wiki organisation Taoism project, Advaita project xbox modding procedure A210 701 peerd, wikid, caretaker.pl Skype hidden emoticons, MSN hidden emoticons simulated reality prototype archetype p2p currency transclusion Navnath Sampradaya Organic Ontology

12 November 2006
Posted by Nad on 12 November 2006 at 06:24
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This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format Long time friend of the project turns 112 today! Kitty Dunkley is 112 cat years old today! Originally she was born in Rotorua in 1990, but moved to Devonport after having ongoing emotional trouble with her Human and Canine flatmates. She has been living in Devonport at the Secret Garden Bed & Breakfast since then. User:Middleman suggests that all cats birthdays should last for a whole week since they should have seven birthdays per year. Poor Kitty passed away on the 14th. Her family were with her at the vets clinic and she passed away peacfully. The moment her spirit left her body the fuse box crackled and hissed and all the lights went out which all those present believed was Kitties way of saying goodbye.

9 March 2007
Posted by Nad on 9 March 2007 at 07:54
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This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format WikiFS The new PeerFS project involves setting up a wiki-based tree to be used as the interface to our tree of distributed content before the peerd interface is ready. This overall tree managing all our content would be exactly what should go in the left pane, and that all the content of the local wiki would simply be under the Organic Design branch. But that would be a massive sidetrack to get the current OD content organised into such a structure though, so I've set up a new wiki specifically for this in our new domain, wikifs.org ;-) The content is all template-based (special tree-templates that is) and the distributed instances of these templates can be thought of as subscribers to the templates which need to have change-information sent to them on a schedule. The scheduler for WikiFS will be peerd instead of wikid since it will involve a far heavier workload due to much of the propagated content being large binaries. WikiFS is a MediaWiki 1.9.3 which was able to installed thanks to our PHP4 installation becoming unstable and prompting the changeover of our server to PHP5.2. This means we can now test all our MediaWiki extensions and code on the latest stable release.

29 December 2011
Posted by Nad on 29 December 2011 at 14:26
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This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format Oppose the New Zealand Government Food Bill 160-2 Sharing food is a basic human right. The Food Bill 160-2 will seriously impede initiatives like community gardens, food co-ops, heritage seed banks, farmers markets, bake sales, and roadside fruit & vegetable stalls. Signing the petition to show that you oppose Food Bill 160-2 is easy, just go to the this link, sign in with Facebook and click "agree" to give the petition access to your basic information (or create an account and enter your details if you're not on Facebook), then click "sign". A link to the actual bill is here, and more information is available here. Over 22,000 people have signed the petition so far, but many more are needed to put a stop to this oppressive decision by the government.

28 August 2007
Posted by Nad on 28 August 2007 at 07:30
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This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format Server Upgraded We have quite a few wiki's running on our VPS account now and it has been suffering from out-of-memory errors and timeouts, so today it's been upgraded from 256MB of RAM to 512MB and also runs on better hardware which uses dual Xeon CPU's and SCSI drives.

12 March 2009
Posted by Nad on 12 March 2009 at 02:42
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This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format OD upgraded to MediaWiki 1.14 We've urgently required an upgrade for a while since all our new RecordAdmin features which are part of the wiki organisation system could not be implemented on the older parser. The upgrade has been very difficult mainly due to DPL raising the infamous illegal mix of collations error. I tried exporting all the content as XML instead of SQL, but even that approach was fraught with problems, I finally got it to work by setting $wgDBmysql5 to false. Now that we're on 1.14, we can no longer support the SimpleForms extension locally, but may later provide the examples on a 1.11 in our wikia. We're now focussing exclusively on the RecordAdmin extension for our form-based systems.

9 March 2013
Posted by Nad on 9 March 2013 at 14:01
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This is a blog item that needs to be converted to the new Bliki format Rest in peace Hugo Chávez Leaders flocked to Caracas on Friday as Venezuelans paid an emotional farewell to their late President Hugo Chávez. His successor Nicolas Maduro has since been sworn in as acting president and called for snap elections. Chávez’s closest allies were present at the state funeral in a military academy where his body has been laid in state. Among the high-profile leaders were Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Cuban President Raul Castro, Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko and Spanish crown-prince Felipe de Borbon. Other regional allies such as Brazil’s Dilma Rouseff and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa were also present. Chávez died on Tuesday at the age of 58 following a two-year fight against cancer. His body will be embalmed and preserved just like Lenin, and laid out in the ‘Mountain Barracks’ where he devised a failed coup. The venue will be turned into a Museum of the Bolivarian Revolution. Venezuelans and world leaders bid farewell to Hugo Chávez President Hugo Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man 50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution The Mass Media’s Defamation of Hugo Chávez The revolution will not be televised - excellent documentary about the 2002 coupa chavez.avi - a downloadable version of the film (use right-click, save as)

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