if anyone who knows me is going to this. let me know! it will be very good.

i’ve been trying to summarise this for a while. fortunately schnews has done the hard work for me. this is very important. if you value the future of free software then follow the advice at the bottom of the article and write to your mep now.

(and if that’s too boring - schnews also recommends joining the tv turnoff brigade by buying a jammer ;-))

slashdot noticed that ireland is going to be at the cutting edge of digital cinema!

a letter in the guardian weekly pointed me to this page.

it’s rather long and dull. but is essential reading for all those of us enjoying peak oil. a fairly rigorous analysis concludes that by changing electricity generation from centralised to localised

“saves the world $5 trillion in capital investment while reducing power costs by 40 percent and cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half.”

not bad.

“The old adage about great minds thinking alike couldn’t be more wrong in the information age, and you’ll find great sites and services that would never have crossed your horizon were it not for either StumbleUpon or del.icio.us.” Davey Winder in PC Pro.

social bookmarking sounds dodgy but it works - highly recommended.

welcome firends, family, strays and miscreants this is the blog of minktoast (if you need to ask you’ll never know).

this post is today because i emailed to tell all the people i have been missing for ages that omelette has ceased to exist and from now on it’s minktoast.

you never know, there might be some fun or interesting stuff on here (as long as you’re into permaculture, trees, tribal beats, free software, pixies and kidz)… at the very least - it’s gonna get more frequently updated than if i was emailing you…

slán

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• - +353 (0)87 671 7589
• - post a comment on this site
• - email: ‘minktoast’ at that ‘gmail’ dot ‘com’ thingy
• - for those in far off lands, my skype id is ‘minktoast’ (not always on - but email if you want a chat)
• - and for IM you can use Y! messenger id ‘minktoasty’ (yes, that has a y on the end). (if you don’t want to install Y! software I recommend trillian)

have been reading ‘how to make a forest garden‘ by patrick whitefield which is super inspiring.

and rob let me know about badgersett.com

according to this site you can get up to 2 tons per acre per year of hazelnuts - if we grow carefully selected trees and breed for the biggest nuts. 2 tons of nuts is a phenomenal amount of high protein healthy food. we evolved eating nuts and seeds. imagine if we put down large areas of land to commercial nut production and bred nuts as much as we’ve bred cereals - the results could be astonishing. low maintenance, reduced soil erosion, healthy food, nature paradise and more. needless to say, ‘the land’ will have some serious nut areas!

yes - the future of the world is nuts!

if my memory serves me correctly my brother and i saved up £200 to buy a 512kb (half a megabyte) ram expansion for our Commmodore Amiga computer. this must have been about 1988.

i notice that today i can buy 1Gb of of fast PC3200 ram for £65.

i make that 6,153 times cheaper per megabyte. now, if only the same thing had happened to house prices…

it’s been getting a lot of press. but i didn’t know it had got this big:

eBay stats

ok - so we haven’t got a building on the land…

but just down the river is our nearest neighbour’s house…

i can say all this now because we signed the papers today! brilliant.

here is a picture of a traditional well at the edge of the land - very pure water…

and here is a picture of the picnic place next to the river

(click a picture to see full size)