I was going to be doing all my book reviews on the application that I was planning to build, but that will take sometime to be ready and I would have forgotten what the hell the book was about. So I’ll be posting here in the mean time.
As the book title states it’s about a man who attempts to live without money for twelve months in an effort to show that yes you can and also as an alternative to living in the resource wasteful, greedy, selfish monetary world. Where we are all slaves to debt!. The books starts with the reasons why Mark decides he will live without money and his logic be hide the idea. Also investigations to find out what he needs and how he will do it, but as he has friends in the right places he can get help and advice from them which is very handy. But in general when he takes the plunge he is on his own. The experiment starts somewhere outside of Bristol (England) in November which by all accounts is not the best month to start, but one thing for sure it’s a plunge into the deep end, and from a man whom used to be a former businessman it would be a shock.
The layout is more based on a dairy format as each passing time occurs with updates on issues he encounters & problems on how to over come some of the major huddles that he faces with links to resources that will help a lot. I think that books like this are very important, so we should read them and understand that this is not going back into time, but this is the future as we have to face up to a changing climate, more expensive food, a monetary system that has used all it’s resources and is fighting to stay alive. We have all lost touch with nature & the basic survival skills, we just think about earning money and then buying what we can with out thought to why we need it, the impact on the environment and all the waste that is produced.
He still keeps in touch with the outside world and has a laptop that runs Ubuntu! O the joys of free open source software. Also on that note Mark does highly recommend the use of open source software as part of living without money.
I will not say how he got on or whether he managed to finish the challange but by all accounts he was a happier, more skilled and wiser man than before he started. You can catch up with Mark at his website Freeconomy
As a result of the disappearance of media.weloveit.info I will be doing books reviews on my own website in the near future with some of the old reviews being transferred from the old media.weloveit.info site.
I plan to develop my own site using Codelgniter php framework, so this may take sometime to get up and running but will help me with my php development skills.
So thanks to Mark for running that site until those fu0k wit hackers from Israel pissed him off to much and he had to pull it down.
Would you think that one of our valuable resources such as food is making banks vast profits at the expense of farmers & end user. Yet these people never see it, only see the money coming in and the money going out.
Here are a few articles about this that explain it further
theecologist.org
wdm.org.uk
guardian.co.uk
Been a while since the last post here, but we have been in the process of moving home. So time has been limited & also I need to re-think what to do with this main site. I’m happy with dev but this has no focus yet apart from general updates, so expect some changes coming soon ish.
So check the gallery for updates.
After preparing all my back ups I decided to complete a base install of Ubuntu 10.04 from 9.10. The reason for the base install was so that I would have a nice clean install on a LTS release and also I wanted to move to Ext 4 file system as doing the normal upgrade I would have been still using Ext 3 file system.
The actual install took only around 15 to 20 mins to complete, which was for the me the fastest install I have done to date. I then installed all the updates and then started with installing the adobe flash plugins, and other plugins for media that are not installed. That I think is one of the weak points for Ubuntu, is that not everything works out of the box. This is OK for me and many other people, but for your general desktop user it is or could be a bit of a let down. A part from that it’s just a matter of installing all the programmes I need and re install my back up data that is required!!
For a guide on a base install & ultimate set-up please see below for information from the world famous site of Tombott.
Ubuntu 10.04 – Lucid Lynx (LTS) Base Install
Ubuntu 10.04 – Lucid Lynx (LTS) – Ultimate Setup
The last post was about Dorking in Surrey, and I have not provided an update since our visit back in March.
We managed to book early so got some cheap train tickets down to Dorking via Manchester and Reading, so that went off ok with out any delays down or up.
- First night we headed into Dorking for a few drinks and the first thing that I noticed was that the price of drink/food was no more than up north. I know it was not London, but still excepted the prices to be a bit higher. We than went for a spot of food at the local Indonesian that was very nice but my dish was hot!! phew
- The following day we looked around Dorking in the day light, and sampled some more pubs and food. Then we headed to Epsom to meet up with L&G in the evening. We took the bus to Epsom so that we could see some of the countryside and surrounding area, it would have taken just 15 mins on the train!!!. But we got the bus to find the windows covered in mud, it was also a very grey, wet day and to top it off full of school kids! Lucky then we had some beers before to ease the pain of kids
- Then came Saturday and we headed into London for the day with L&G again for a walk from Waterloo train station down to Tower Bridge then back a long the other side, this as usual took in the sites and the pubs. For a tourist treat you should visit the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub on fleet street.
- Sunday turnout to be a nice sunny day so we headed for Richmond to take a look around as you do LOL
- The last day we headed off to Farnham which turned out to be a nice place, but a shame the castle was closed.
Overall a good time was had, and for the life of me I cannot remember the names of the pubs we visited in Dorking but will post once know. Also I have not yet sorted all the pictures yet so thats still to come.
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