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Pink Floyd Online | Pink Floyd History - 1964 to 1969

No reason - this is just a simple brilliant summary o f one of the most screwed up, brilliant musical enigma's .... EVER!

Pink Floyd: 1964 to 1969

In 1964, three friends; George Roger Waters (guitar), Richard Wright (keyboards), & Nick Mason (drums) (all students at the Regent Street School Of Polytechnics), formed a band called Sigma 6. Unsuccessful to get famous, The band changed their name to The T-Sets. Later in middle 1965, the band became The Abdads, with new members Clive Metcalf on bass guitar, and Keith Nobles and Juliette Gale on backup vocals. The band changed their name to both The Screaming Abdads, and The Architectural Abdabs. In 1966, Julliette Gale married Rick Wright and The Abdabs broke up. Later that year George legally changed his name to Roger. In Autumn 1966, the band became Sigma 6 again, Roger switched to bass guitar, and they recruited 2 guitar players; Bob Close and Roger Syd Barret. Before long they changed their name to The Pink Floyd Sound.

Later that year, Bob Close left the band. The band finally had a chance to record their first single, Arnold Layne, a song about a crazy transvestite who steals women's clothes. Before long, they dropped the words "The" and "Sound" in the name and made their first album, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. The studio rented out to make the album, was right down the hall from where The Beatles were recording Sgt. Peppers, so the band got to know The Beatles very well.

The band had a subsequent tour scheduled for the U.S.A., but Syd got very sick from being blasted on LSD (better know as acid). His LSD addiction helped his imagination to write songs, but around the time of A Saucerful Of Secrets, his drug habits were out of control.

By the end of 1967, Syd was becoming to spaced out for his writings. The band considered getting a replacement for Syd. They recruited David Gilmour, an old friend of Roger and Syd's. Syd got guitar lessons from David in Grammar and High School.

David was recruited to cover for Syd on stage. If Syd were to make a mistake, David would fill the gap, and fix it. That didn't work out. David would cover for Syd on stage while Syd stayed behind stage and wrote songs. That didn't work out.

The band tried as hard as they could to keep Syd in the band, but his acid addiction took control of him and he went crazy. The band finally decided to kick out Syd. Syd wanted to see their show that night but they didn't pick him up. Goodbye Syd Barret. He was institutionalized for drug abuse in 1974.

In 1968, the band continued on without Syd. This was a major tragedy in England, but not in America. Another major tragedy was when David Gilmour's Telecaster was stolen in Chicago. Later that year, the band played a gig in France, and one of the attendees of the show was famous French hippie movie director, Barbet Schroder. He asked Pink Floyd to do the soundtrack to his next picture, More, which would come out in 1969. The band also had an unreleased rock opera the played on-stage, called The Man and The Journey, which they took 3 songs from for the More Soundtrack; Sleep/Nightmare (which would become Cymbaline), Green Is The Colour, and Death (which both parts of the song became both Main Theme and Dramatic Sequence).

The album and movie would be a success in Europe and Britian. The band retired The Man and The Journey before being recorded, but used one song from the album called The Narrow Way. Barbet Schroder would ask the band to do another soundtrack for another movie in 1972 called La Vallee, known in America and Britian as The Valley Obscured By Clouds.

Pink Floyd History - 1970 to 1977

In late 1969, Pink Floyd released a Double Album called Ummagumma. The first disc consisted of live tracks from various live performances in 1969. The second disc consisted of solo studio tracks by each member of the band.

In early 1970, Pink Floyd released their newest album Atom Heart Mother, with an orchestra playing on the 23-minute-plus title track. The band toured extensively with the orchestra supporting the album.

In early 1971, Pink Floyd's executive producer Joe Boyd, made a compilation album of both released and unreleased material from Pink Floyd's past. It was called Relics. While this was going on, Pink Floyd was in the middle of making their new album Meddle with another 23-minute-plus song called Echoes.

In early 1972, Pink Floyd was asked again to do another soundtrack for a movie called La Vallee or The Valley Obscured By Clouds, hence the name Obscured By Clouds came about.

After Obscured by Clouds was finshed, Pink Floyd took a plane to Rome, where they took a bus to Pompeii, one of the 2 cities destroyed by Mount Vesuvius 2000 years ago. There they filmed a private concert, playing some of their best material. The video was called Live At Pompeii, which also included footage behind the making of the album of their new opus.

During the time that Floyd was making Obscured By Clouds, they had written a 45-minute opus of songs that they played live. This opus was called Eclipse. It was mainly focused on society and how it alienates, controls, and destroys daily life. The original name for the opus was supposed to be Dark Side Of The Moon, but the British Blues band Medicine Head released an album the previous year of the same name. So they let the name go, until they heard that the Medicine Head album flopped on Billboard charts, so they revamped the name Dark Side Of The Moon and also wrote an end song for the opus which was called Eclipse. They turned their opus into an album in 1973, called Dark Side Of The Moon. It is the second highest selling rock record in history, compared to Michael Jackson's Thriller.

To follow up their success to Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd made Wish You Were Here. The album was dedicated to original lyricist and guitar player Syd Barret. During late recording of the album, Syd actually showed up to congratulate them on their success with Dark Side Of The Moon, although at first they didn't recognize him because he had gained alot of weight. During that tour they wrote yet another opus, but this one was mostly instrumental. This opus turned out to be Shine On You Crazy Diamond. It was split into 2 halves because it was too long to fit on one side of the record. During this tour Pink Floyd performed Dark Side Of The Moon in it's entirety again.

After the success of Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd took off for a year and a half to make a new album. This album was based on the aristocratic and communist lifestyles in the world. Each type of person was loosely based on an animal. And this album became Animals. Dogs were the creepy rulers of industry, Pigs were the communist tyrants, Sheep were the common folk, always being brainlessly led by the Dogs and Pigs, and Pigs On The Wing was a love song that Roger wrote to his new wife, Carolyn, the niece of the Duke of York. For the tour the band recruited Dick Parry for saxophone and Snowy White on rhythm guitar. On July 6th, 1977 in Montreal, Quebec, the last show of the Animals tour, a fan was screaming relentlessy and climbing his way up towards the stage. Roger spit on him to show disgustment. After the show, Roger felt bad about this, and escaped back to his hotel room and started writing new music, about how much he and the audience have come apart.

Pink Floyd: 1978 to 1983
In late 1978, Pink Floyd met together to discuss new projects, after David and Rick made solo albums. Roger presented 2 projects in demo form. The first project was rejected, that project turned out to be, Roger Waters' solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch-hiking. But the second project was taken, that project was The Wall. Roger had enough songs for 3 discs, but he had to get rid of a bunch of songs. November 30, 1979, The Wall is released in the UK, and the fans love it. December 5, 1979, The Wall is released in the US, and again, the fans love itt. For the tour they recruit Andy Bown on 2nd Bass Guitar, Snowy White on Rhythm Guitar in 1980, Andy Roberts on Rhythm Guitar in 1981, Peter Woods on Keyboards, Richard Wright on Keyboards, and Jon Joyce, Stan Farber, Jim Haas, & Joe Chemay on Backing Vocals.

February 26th, 1980, Pink Floyd premiers The Wall Tour in Nassau Coliseum, on Long Island New York. October 1980, Pink Floyd premiers The Wall Tour in Earl's Court in London. January 1981, Pink Floyd plays The Wall in Los Angeles. April 1981, Pink Floyd Plays The Wall Show 4 times in Westfallenhalle in Dortmund, Germany. August 1981, Pink Floyd plays The Wall at Earl's Court London again, and their tour is over by September.

In 1982, Rick Wright left the band for good. Pink Floyd recuited new Keyboard Players for a new project called, Spare Bricks, A Collection Of Unrealeased Songs intended for The Wall but were scratched. The new Keyboard Players were Michael Kamen on Piano, and Harmonium, and Andy Bown on organ, and synthesizer.

Roger had plans to tour for the new album in November 1983, but because of tensions between each member, Roger cancelled those plans, and changed the name of the album to The Final Cut, which it probably would be if David and Nick left, but they didn't.

Pink Floyd: 1984 to 2001

In 1984, the band went their own seperate ways, Rick Wright made a solo project with Dave Harris called Zee-Identity, David Gilmour made a new solo album called About Face, and Roger Waters made The Pros and Cons Of Hitch-hiking. In 1986, David Gilmour talked to Nick Mason about getting the band back together. This caused a major law suit. Roger Waters, sued David and Nick for the rights to the music, and the band name itself. Roger lost the case because Pink Floyd was never anything put into writing, but Roger was given the rights to perform Pink Floyd music at his concerts and was given ownership of The Wall and The Final Cut.

In later 1986, Dave and Nick set out to make the new album, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason. They recruited an array of Musicians for the album like King Crimson's Bass Player Tony Levin, Roxy Music's Guitar Player Phil Manzenara, Vanilla Fudge's drummer Carmine Appice, Richard Wright on Keyboards and about 20 others. They took off for the road, in later 1987 under the name Pink Floyd. They recruited Gary Wallis for Drums and Percussion, Guy Pratt on bass guitar, Jon Carin on keyboards, Tim Renwick on Guitar, and the "cre`me de la cre`me" of the show, the return of Richard Wright. The 3-Year Tour concluded in August 1990, when Pink Floyd played at The Knebworth Festival.

The Band took a 3 year Hiatus from Touring and Recording in 1990.

Pink Floyd started recording in 1993 for their new album, The Division Bell. Richard Wright was finally back fully with the band. The band toured for 6 months. The Tour Ended after a series of 12 shows at Earl's Court London, and during their tour of Europe, David Gilmour married his girlfriend Polly Samson. For this tour they did something they hadn't done in about 20 years, they played Dark Side Of The Moon in it's entirety.

Pink Floyd released a live album and video on their Division Bell tour, both featured with live Dark Side Of The Moon. The band was successful once more.

In 1996, Pink Floyd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. Gilmour, Wright, and Mason performed Wish You Were Here with Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins. Floyd has done no concerts since then, but made a new live album in 2000. The band made this live album from many different recordings from The Wall Shows of 1980 and 1981 in London's Earls Court and Los Angeles, with Roger Waters. Roger Waters toured in 1999 & 2000, he made a new live album called In The Flesh.

In Late 2001, Pink Floyd including Roger Waters and Syd Barrett, with producer James Guthrie, made a new compilation album called Echoes. Although Floyd never did well with Compilations or greatest hits albums, this album was remastered as one continuous song like Dark Side Of The Moon, and did well in the charts.

November 24, 2006 at 08:27 PM in My Blog | Permalink | Top of page | Blog Home

Tabs to tables

Heal Your Church Web Site: Movable Type Plugin : Tabs to Tables

I've been busy re-engineering a church web site using Movable Type as a content management system (CMS). Until then, a text-formatting plug-in I created to help me finish the job.

One of the advantages of using a tool such as Movable Type, is the ability to create code modules one can plug-in to perform a variety of tasks. One task is converting data in one format, and displaying it in another. This happens quite often in the world of church web sites as quite a bit of information, such as calendars, bulletins and flyers are often generated using office tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint. ...........

July 3, 2004 at 11:04 PM in My Blog | Permalink | TrackBack (33) | Top of page | Blog Home

Spring forward one hour Sunday

An hour less for blogging this weekend. I could have sworn it was end of April, but its spring forward this weekend.

TheStar.com - Spring forward one hour Sunday

CANADIAN PRESS

If this weekend's spring ahead one hour into daylight time leaves you a little bleary-eyed come Sunday morning, you are not alone.
Prof. Stanley Coren, Canada's foremost authority on the effects daylight time has on the body, says most North Americans are already chronically sleep-deprived and losing an extra hour can put you over the top.

"Evolution really wanted us to get nine or 10 hours worth of sleep for every 24 and, on average, North Americans are getting 7 to 7-1/2," says Coren, a University of British Columbia psychology teacher.

"When you are sleep-deprived enough, you begin to have what we call micro-sleeps, and that simply means that no matter what it is you are doing, your brain goes into a sleep state for a period of any place from 10 seconds to a minute or more."

Coren says these micro-sleeps can have consequences when you are doing things that require constant attention, such as driving.

In 1996 Coren did a study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine that looked at car-crash data from Statistics Canada. He found there is about a seven per cent increase in accidents the day after most of the country moves to daylight time.

"You can't simply say, 'Maybe it was because people are in a hurry because they forgot it was daylight saving time,' " Coren says.

"Most of the accidents that follow the daylight saving time are actually later in the day, which is exactly what you would expect if you were dealing with individuals being sleep-deprived."

Most of the country switches to daylight time from standard time in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

The change means that Canadians lose an hour's sleep - except for anyone living in Saskatchewan, Southampton Island in Nunavut, several communities in northwestern Ontario and a few pockets of British Columbia where standard time is a year-round thing.

Daylight time was adopted by several countries during the First World War to save fuel because it meant the sun stayed up later into the evening.

New York was the first city to adopt it in 1918.

Benjamin Franklin is credited with first suggesting the idea in a 1784 essay entitled Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle.

Some believe Franklin was joking, but more than 100 years later a British builder named William Willet made a serious push for the change in a 1907 pamphlet entitled Waste of Daylight.

The official changeover happens at different times across the country: midnight in Newfoundland and New Brunswick, 3 a.m. in Manitoba and 2 a.m. everywhere else.

Some fire departments recommend using the changeover as a reminder to replace the batteries in smoke detectors.

April 2, 2004 at 07:50 AM in My Blog | Permalink | TrackBack (17) | Top of page | Blog Home

Coming Soon: TypeKey Authentication Services

This is a step forward for internet computing. Its along the same lines as the benefit which your homegrown Chevrolet gets from Formula 1 Racing development. This is a real step forward in blogging, which provides a centralised authentication authority to provide permission to comment in a blog.

But where it gets interesting is that same authority is available for use in commercial authentication also. The concept is bang on, and one which really only Microsoft have promoted with their Passport product ... mmmm do I see another Microsoft purchase impending, which would fit niley with the research work they are doing on mywallop.

TypeKey

The basics about TypeKey:
TypeKey is a free, open system providing a central identity that anyone can use to log in and post comments on blogs and other web sites.

Why should I use TypeKey?
TypeKey helps ensure that people who comment on a site have a verified identity, keeping conversations on track and helping to prevent abusive or offensive content (comment spam) from being posted. Sites that enable TypeKey have better accountability for the content that's being published.

As a TypeKey user, you get your own free TypeKey Profile Page, displaying only the information you choose to share. Those who are interested in finding out more about the person behind the comments on a site can visit the identity page to see what information is publicly available. You can even publish a TypeKey Profile Page while remaining completely anonymous.

Why should I enable TypeKey comment registration on my weblog?
Enabling TypeKey on your site lets you control who can post comments while only requiring a single sign-in for your commenters. A lower barrier to comment registration means your commenters won't encounter any barriers while expressing themselves. And all weblog comments and other data still live on your server.

Plus, TypeKey gives weblog authors more control over managing comments that have been posted, prevents comment spamming (junk comments) and prohibits unauthorized comments. This is accomplished by requiring commenters to log in with a verified account before they can post, and by offering weblog authors the power to approve or ban a commenter's ability to post on the site.

What about my privacy?
We're committed to providing a service that respects user privacy. Therefore, we will not publish information that you have not chosen to make public, nor will we share your information without your explicit permission. We're not in the business of selling email addresses, and we give users the option to choose whether they'd like to send their email address to the sites which they are commenting on.

Where can I use my TypeKey identity?
We expect that you'll be able to use your TypeKey login to post comments on thousands of weblogs when Movable Type 3.0 is available later this Spring. And TypeKey will work with TypePad weblogs as well as other tools and services soon after that.

How much does it cost?
TypeKey is free to use for both personal weblog authors and commenters, and only requires registration.

Who runs TypeKey? Is it safe?
TypeKey is a service of Six Apart. We're a well-established weblog software company, with hundreds of thousands of users and offices in the U.S. and Japan. We're committed to making sure TypeKey is reliable, safe, and secure, and we've made sure our privacy policy is as protective as you'd expect: We don't want to send junk mail to you any more than you want to receive it.

TypeKey never shares your password information with site owners, and comment information is only retained on the site you've commented on, not on the TypeKey service. TypeKey is a service for authentication and, in the case of comment registration, we leave it up to the weblog owners to decide who can post to their own weblogs.

Can I use this in my own web application?
We'll be providing documentation on how to integrate TypeKey authentication into your own applications shortly after the service launches. At that point, there will also be information about what is required to make use of TypeKey services in commercial applications.

March 20, 2004 at 07:14 PM in @ My Views @, My Blog | Permalink | TrackBack (21) | Top of page | Blog Home

Comment spam

Unfortunately comment spam got the better of the site, and I have turned off comments. It started slowly a few weeks ago, with one every 2 or 3 days, then 1 a day, then 4 day. Today i got 13, and since I deleted them I got another four imemdiately, so my sense is this was about to take off. I know others have had their ISP close down their blog due to network traffic associated with comment spam, and I see why.

MT v3 is coming soon, and rather than go with the interim 2.661 I am awaiting that, which has built in protection, and then I will will turn comments back on.

March 18, 2004 at 10:13 AM in My Blog | Permalink | TrackBack (19) | Top of page | Blog Home

Testing Begins & More Info about 3.0

This from Movable Type. I am looking forward to V3.0 which will have the Typepad functionality, and strong comment configuration to deal with comment spam.

movabletype.org V3.0

03.16.2004
We're taking our first steps towards the release of Movable Type 3.0. The pre-beta version has just finished its initial two rounds of alpha testing and we're now opening the testing to a larger audience (we've picked 300 random addresses from those who applied and will be adding more as time progresses).
The testing that we're conducting will not only help ensure a stable final release but will also give us an opportunity to receive feedback on feature implementation from both users and developers.

March 16, 2004 at 08:20 AM in My Blog | Permalink | TrackBack (12) | Top of page | Blog Home

The inventors and owners of Movable Type

It must just be a matter of time, before someone buys up MT. That will be a sad day though, because its such a well thought through and designed program.

Yahoo! News - Top Stories Photos - AP

Six Apart Ltd.'s Ben and Mena Trott, of San Mateo, Calif., are pictured with their newest tool for bloggers on the go, at the DEMO conference, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004, in Scottsdale, Ariz. The unassuming young husband-and-wife team's demo of their newest tool elicited wide grins. The invention lets mobile bloggers- ``mobloggers'' - instantly add digital photos, audio and text to their Web sites. (AP Photo/Roy Dabner)

February 26, 2004 at 08:32 AM in My Blog | Permalink | TrackBack (16) | Top of page | Blog Home

Testing MT in Japanese

Just testing to see if movable Type and MY SQL accept Japanese characters.

コーリン

あえうえお
かきくけこ
さしすせそ

February 8, 2004 at 11:31 AM in My Blog | Permalink | TrackBack (6) | Top of page | Blog Home

Tech trends to watch in 2004

Here's little different "tech trend" prediction from Fortune. The first one talks to the premise of this blog ... the power that evolves from the transparancy provided by internet.

Which corporation is going to properly harness that power and see their business flourish in new ways. This is not about html, or xml; those are a given. This is about internet, the network and the tools including web sites, browser based, blogs, yes blogs. Blogs are a just a simple way of using web sites, and infomation dissmination in a much more rapid fashion than can ever occur in traditional mechanistic methods.

CNN.com - Tech trends to watch in 2004 - Dec. 31, 2003

(FORTUNE.COM) -- 2004: Bring it on! We have momentum in the economy, in the technology industry, and even, for a change, in the stock market. We will continue next year to pluck the fruits of innovation.
It's been a confusing time, this past year of war, terrorism fears, and "tech doesn't matter." What a bunch of downers. Yet we tech-focused folk have a lot to keep us cheery. Sometimes it seems like most people just don't realize how much technology is changing all of our lives, mostly for the better. It will continue to do so in 2004, with continuing progress in, for instance, Internet telephony, data on cell phones, and home networking. But here are some less obvious ways:

The bottom-up wave continues: The Internet from the beginning was supposed to increase institutional transparency and push power to the edges of the network, as people learned more about how things really work and the facts about anything got harder to hide. It's happening. Prices are dropping on eBay for goods that formerly seemed rare -- because we now can see just how many baseball cards or used Rolexes there are out there. Politics is being turned upside down as Moveon.org and Howard Dean's campaign, among others, show how powerful the informed people on the edge can be when they're connected. Expect to see this trend have a growing impact in education (digital universities), the developing world (improved health care, education, and government responsiveness), business (is it a coincidence all these scandals are emerging just as everybody's getting connected?), entertainment (voting continues for the World Idol), etc.

Big Brother comes to town: In the age of super-cheap digital cameras and computers, anything can, and will, be monitored. Expect the debate about privacy to take a newly intense turn, as we all start to realize just how many of our actions are recorded, by video, biometric security systems, sensors in payment systems, spyware online, and more. There needs to be a real debate, too, because the benefits from all these systems are genuine. We may start to detect the impact of technological oversight on lowering crime rates across the U.S. It truly is harder to get away with it anymore. I, for one, am willing to trade off a certain amount of privacy in exchange. Note to John Ashcroft -- don't make me regret I said that.

Business keeps technologizing: The data suggesting a steep falloff in business investment in tech over the past few years have been misleading. Our obsession with the performance of technology stocks -- a hangover from the '90s -- is making us watch the wrong signals. The fact is, companies have been steadily improving their tech even though the results for technology companies have seemed stagnant. Marc Andreessen, he of the web browser, explained this recently: "Despite the computer industry recession, companies have been steadily escalating their investment in tech -- and it's really ramping up right now. But to do it people are buying commoditized servers from Dell or H-P that don't carry anywhere near the revenues of the old Unix servers. They're using open source so you don't see the software revenues. And they're developing software in-house using Java, which means you don't see the packaged software revenues." Here is why we see such a surge in productivity in American business -- you can improve the performance of your business without even spending that much anymore.

Open source continues to surge: Andreessen mentions it and rightly so. Linux is just the leading edge of a wave that will transform how companies use technology. Whether or not it will come to ordinary folks is unclear, though in some ways it already has. If you're a Mac user you're already seeing how powerful it can be when a software company incorporates open source into its products. Why do you think a little company like Apple can keep coming out with such innovative products as the Safari web browser, iPhoto, iTunes, or the iPod? Because they've gotten out of the scut-work business and are using open source components whenever they can, concentrating their energies on the truly new software ideas.

My enthusiasm for the positive benefits of technology can be almost Pollyanna-ish, so just to leaven that, I'll add this: If all the virus attacks and spam don't slow in 2004, we could see a real turning away from the use of the Internet, especially for e-mail, among ordinary people. There are some positive signs we're beginning to address these problems, but we're still playing catch-up with the bad guys.

But that already sounds like too much negativity. Have a great year -- the technology industry sure will. And let's pray for peace.

Questions? Comments? E-mail them to me at dkirkpatrick@fortunemail.com.

January 7, 2004 at 07:47 PM in Corporate Blogging, Internet evolution, My Blog | Permalink | Top of page | Blog Home

Happy New Year!!

All the best for a fabulous 2004 to family, friends, and anyone who happens by !!!!

Spending this one in Tokyo is a new experience, and remarkably similar to Scottish New Year - more so than Toronto home.

January 1, 2004 at 12:00 AM in My Blog | Permalink | Top of page | Blog Home

6 Months old

So ICE is coming up on 6 months old now. When I began, I was on Blogger, then moved to Typepad, and now running on Movable Type. MT has expanded the usefulness of the blog immensely because of categories, and their extensive XML library, which when combined with external plug ins provides a powerful tool, which will meet my needs for a while.

I started off with the concept of gathering information which I fond interesting in one place. The best part of blogging for me, is the ability to seamlessly capture other articles or information at the point of hearing/ reading it. Layer on the ability to voice my own opinion and reaction at the time, and thats all there is to my blog.

This replaces the old way of seeking out historical documents when I need something, but the blog makes information gathering seamless and easy.

My original premise was that internet has changed business models for ever, and while I now have only one caegory on that, the other categories seem to have evolved into representations of the changes which bring about the change to old business models.

So one of the attractions for me with MT is the ability to host the site and the data myself. After 6 months, and 311 posts, there is an immense body of knowledge here. Prior to blogs, I would have had all these thoughts, but they would have been fleeting, and later relegated to the "what was that about (insert idea here) again?"

December 29, 2003 at 12:07 AM in My Blog | Permalink | Top of page | Blog Home

Move to Movable Type - 2

Well, the move is pretty much completed now. The search and archive capability is key. All in all I can see the benefit in MT is the thought which has gone into their XML library. Its well developed, and exendtible. Last point is key; its exendible because the thought and strategy which went into the original development, meant that its relatively simple for MT to extend, but the real proof point is the number of plug-ins.

For example if you select any category, you will see a menu at the top for "previous category", "main" and "next category". This menu is a plug-in from Brad Choate, and it works so simply because of the open-ness of MT.

Open-ness means the original XML tag library (WSDL) was developed from the "outside in"; ie what is the maximum function requirement, including, category, posts, archive etc, then the development of functions within those is just a matter of individual thought and work. That individual work is not limited because the original XML architecture is open and wide enough that it encompasses the detailed individual processes as required.

December 28, 2003 at 04:34 AM in My Blog | Permalink | Top of page | Blog Home

Move to Movable Type

Internet Changes Everything

Still some formatting of templates to go, but getting there. Over the next few days, will be finished, but meantime, any catgory or archive pages which look wierd, it'll be fixed soon.

December 9, 2003 at 06:55 PM in My Blog | Permalink | Top of page | Blog Home

Internet Changes Everything: My Blog Archives

Internet Changes Everything: My Blog Archives

My html issues are now resolved by moving to Typepad, and eventually to Movable Type. I tried this template in an old Netscape and it doesnt work, but its perfect in V7.

December 2, 2003 at 09:08 AM in My Blog | Permalink | TrackBack (33) | Top of page | Blog Home

html issues

Internet changes everything

I know I have to fix the html in my site for Netscape and other non IE users, so please be patient.

November 10, 2003 at 11:48 PM in My Blog | Permalink | Top of page | Blog Home

3 months old

The blog is getting close to 3 months old now, and I can't believe how much stuff is crammed in here. The simplicity of posting makes it really easy to use blogs as a not-taking tool. One of my goals was to gather thoughts as I had them, and in that I've succeeded. Where blogs fail, is that they cannot easily synthesize all this stuff easily and develop an aggregated view of what's going on.

So it'll have to be the old fashioned way, by sifting through it all. I am sure there are themes here, eg viruses, lack of faith in email, evolution of RSS - but there are bigger things happening too. Blogs are changing the web ... its all about "me" - bring the web to me, and don't make me have to go and search or click.

September 7, 2003 at 11:32 PM in My Blog | Permalink | Top of page | Blog Home