I have made a new webpage to promote my music.

While many of you know I am a guitarist, I have also recently begun tinkering with making music on the computer. Here are some recent experiments with the creation of electronic music:

elektronika by tony-baldwin-1

Tags: ambient, elektronika, music, tony baldwin
Current Music: tony baldwin

The historian Crane Brinton in his book "Anatomy of a Revolution" laid out the common route to revolution.

The preconditions for successful revolution, Brinton argued, are:

• discontent that affects nearly all social classes,


• widespread feelings of entrapment and despair,


• unfulfilled expectations,


• a unified solidarity in opposition to a tiny power elite,


• a refusal by scholars and thinkers to continue to defend the actions of the ruling class,


• an inability of government to respond to the basic needs of citizens,


• a steady loss of will within the power elite itself and defections from the inner circle,


• a crippling isolation that leaves the power elite without any allies or outside support and,


• finally, a financial crisis.


THE TIME IS NOW!

Tags: 99percent, occupation, occupy, revolution
Current Location: 127.0.0.1
Current Mood: mood
Current Music: music

The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.

Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."

The American then asked, "Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more fish?"

The Mexican said, "With this I have more than enough to support my family's needs."

The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life."

The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing; and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat: With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor; eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution.
You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles and eventually New York where you will run your ever-expanding enterprise."

The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?"

To which the American replied, "15 to 20 years."

"But what then?" asked the Mexican.

The American laughed and said that's the best part. "When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."

"Millions?...Then what?"

The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

Author Unknown

Tags: greed
Current Location: 127.0.0.1
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: seether

I discovered Linux Multi Media Studio (aka LMMS).

This is the first song I've created:

Tags: darth vader, dubstep, elektronika, lmms, star wars, techno, tony baldwin
Current Location: 127.0.0.1.
Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Dub Vader

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

... and other observations from Lemony Snicket

Tags: 99%, ows
Current Location: 127.0.0.1
Current Mood: mood
Current Music: music

the free web

A FREE, uncensored, neutral internet is ESSENTIAL to Free Expression and Freedom of Information.

In recent times, we have seen governments restrict access to the internet. We've seen the huge, corporate owned social networking and microblogging sites censor content their investors do not like, and even remove accounts belonging to protesting entities, such as Twitter's recent removal of the account for @OccupyWallStreet, and Facebook's censorship of protest related photos.

But, we need the internet to communicate, not just locally, but nation-wide, and world-wide, to express our views, to make our voices heard, and to share what it is we are doing, and how our oppressors react, EVERYWHERE...

To that end:
The decentralized, federated, FREE (as in freedom, as well as price), social networks of which I spoke are:

• Diaspora;
• Friendika; and
• StatusNET.

There are numberous Diaspora sites, but they are all connected, so contacts on any Diaspora site can be connected to folks on another Diaspora site.

Here is my Diaspora profile:

tonybaldwin@poddery.com

I recommend joining diaspora at poddery.com or diasp.org.

StatusNET is for microblogging (like twitter, and can forward updates to twitter) built on free/open source software. StatusNEt is uncensored, free, and you can roll your own. Anyone can have a statusnet site, and like Diaspora, said sites can connect to each other. The most popular statusnet site is Identi.ca.
I am at http://identi.ca/tonybaldwin
Another good statunet site is http://parlementum.net/
I am also on there http://parlementum.net/tonybaldwin.

The statusnet at http://parlementum.net/ is run by a friend, and I am an asst admin of the server.

But, best of all, in my opinion, is Friendika.
Friendika is decentralized and federated, but also allows you to connect to contacts on twitter, identi.ca, diaspora, facebook, and other sites, from friendika. I recommend Friendika most highly of all (although a combination of statusnet for microblogging and friendika is a good idea).

Learn more about friendika at http://project.friendika.com/

The creator, Mike Macgrivin, is a friend (he was part of the team that developed Netscape Browser for AOL!). I have developed software to interact with the Friendika's API, and may be developing some plugins.

In Diaspora and Friendika, unlike FB and other sites, you own your own data, and completely control your own privacy. The sites are not corporate owned, and, in fact, if you have access to a server and the know-how, you can install and run a site yourself (kind of like you can with wordpress, joomla, etc.), and still connect to all the other friendika and/or diaspora sites. In this way, a truly FREE, open, neutral internet is forming, uncensored and unfettered by corporate interests.

My current friendika profile is http://frndk.de/profile/tony.

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The Free Web by tony baldwin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.tonybaldwin.info.

page created with: tclext

Tags: diaspora, free, freedom, friendika, internet, net neutrality, social network, statusnet

New URL shortening service: fukn.me

Tags: fukn, short, url
Current Location: 127.0.0.1
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: jessy bulbo

A preview of what's to come...

Thinking of UI enhancements, I added the Xpostulate little icon thingy right into the GUI.



What do you think?

Other items on their way:

• 
  Posterous support. I have interacted with the posterous api via bash with curl, so, just need to translate my scripting for that to tcl with http. Cake, but requires time. I thought I would have that done this past week, but, no joy...too much work (somebody's gotta pay the rent around here).
• 
  Blogger support. - The great and benevolent Google® has granted me an API key, and I have looked at the API, but not yet played with it, but this is likely to come this season...soon, me dro0gies.
• Read your statusnet public timeline or updates from a specific person. This I have, again, done in bash, so just a matter of coding it into tcl. Although, I question if this is appropriate for Xpostulate, and whether it might not be better to do this with iDenTickles only, since iDenTickles is a microblogging client, and Xpostulate is intended for crossposting to blogs, not reading others' updates.
• Download, edit, & republish older entries. This is on my todo list, but for each blogging service I have to look at how their API handles this, and then code stuff in, and develop new GUI elements for housing various functions, and blah, blah, blah. It will be work..heavy lifting...but it's on my TODO list.

posted with Xpostulate

Tags: blogging, statusnet, tcl, xpostulate
Current Location: 127.0.0.1
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: banda topaz

Okay, I just pushed new code for Xpostulate to github with the following changes:

• removed iziblog, scribbld, inksome (spam SEO havens anyway)


• removed twitter until I can get oauth working


• added support for custom wordpress installations


• added support for posting to friendika with bbcode insertions


• changed identi.ca feature to support any status.net installation.


• also, various pertinent alterations to gui, of course

all in ONE DAY! because I F--KING ROCK!

I have NOT updated the win/lin installers on the main Xpostulate page, yet.
I have to play with installjammer and get those worked up again, and will probably give a day or two for this new code to be tested,
since, it seems, I now have a contributor on the project who seems willing to test and prod this code.

Still to do:

• I really, really want a button to click to automagically translate bbcode to html or vice-versa.


• That I can do, but need time.


• Get oauth working for twitter...maybe


• add support for blogger


• change the LJ, IJ, DJ, DW to be simple moveabletype, with multiple options, rather than hardwired for 4 different sites, so, say, if you only use LJ and DW, you don't have DJ and IJ cluttering your interface, or, even, if you have multiple LJ accts (I do, one for my art, other for hackery), you can do that, etc.

Now, I really must get back to translating these Brazilian pharma regulations.

Tags: dreamwidth, friendika, livejournal, wordpress, xpost, xpostulate
Current Location: 127.0.0.1
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: seether

I am working on improvements to Xpostulate.

I am removing iziblog, inksome and scribbld, because nobody uses them.
Sorry.
I will probably allow for a custom moveabletype install that will enable them.

I am implementing support for custom wordpress installs.

I have removed tweeting (basic auth no longer support), and altering the identi.ca dents to support any statusnet installation (which will still support identi.ca, of course).

Cleaning up some code.

I will have new code up on github before the day is out, but not sure when I'll have the new windows and linux installers up on the main site.

Tags: tcl, xpostulate
Current Location: 127.0.0.1
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: seether