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How To Access Box.net Account From Mobile Phone?

TECH IDEA — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:34:23 +0000

Question: How To Access Box.net Account From Mobile Phone?

Answer:

Yes, you can upload files or enjoy the taste of box.net from your mobile phones. Just got to m.box.net and they also support blackbarry too.

Bongoman e Pywidget: nuovi progressi!

dockside — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:20:29 +0000

Via MSN l'amico Bongoman mi ha fatto uno screen per farmi vedere a che punto è con il suo piccolo capolavoro Pywidget...ebbene ora le finestre sono trasparenti..ci sta ancora lavorando e nuovi sviluppi sono in arrivo...vi terrò aggiornati ;)

Avatar

dewanta99 — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:48:23 +0000

Avatar...!!!

What do you think about Avatar??

this' a cartoon right...?

You might watch it on TV.

But, ...

jUsT InTro...

dewanta99 — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:39:33 +0000

JusT Intro Guys...

Free Space Report:

Andrew Morgan — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:45:48 +0000

Whether its for daily checks or a for a once off report this handy little script allows you to connect to as many servers as you like, query all local drives, report the capacity of the drives and the free space available. It writes all this information to a snazzy HTML file that is saved on the local disk.

This is a vbs file and uses a servers.txt (keep the txt file in the same location as the script) file as a reference for each of the servers you wish to connect to. I've tested this on up to 30 servers at a time with flawless output. This script can be run as a schedueled task and accross psexec. Just one point to note, if it is being executed from a UNC path, map the drive first or it will fail to lookup servers.txt

I use this script as a daily check to check up on all the file servers and exchange servers in the morning, combined with this Script this html file can be emailed to you or your team.

Heres an example of the html file you are finished with.

Server Utilization Report

Server1 Drive Utilization

C:\	Size: 20,003 MB	Free: 8,791 MB	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43.95% Free
E:\	Size: 10,000 MB	Free: 3,715 MB	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	37.15% Free

Created 26/02/2008 12:14:12 by morgan_a

For the code, click more...

'Andrew Morgan February 2008
'connects to a device and lists all capacity & free space

Dim objService,objLocator
Dim objFSO, objOutFile,objFile1
Dim objNetwork

'Get Date Vars
strMonth = Month(Date)
strDay = Day(Date)
strYear = Right(Year(Date),2)

On Error Resume Next

'Location of HTML file that will be created (dont use network shares unless drive is mapped)
htmFile="c:\" & strMonth & "-" & strDay & "-" & strYear & ".htm"

'Name of servers text file (must be kept in the same directory as the script)
serverlist="servers.txt"

Const myGreen="008000"
Const myRed="FF0000"
Const myYellow="FFD700"

set objNetwork=CreateObject("wscript.network")
Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objOutFile=objFSO.CreateTextFile(htmFile)
Set objFile1=objFSO.OpenTextFile(serverlist,1)

'Write Lead in of htm file
'Change the next line to change the header
objOutfile.WriteLine "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Server Logical Drive Utilization</TITLE></HEAD>"
'objOutfile.WriteLine "<BODY BGCOLOR=" & CHR(34) & "FFFFF" & CHR(34)& ">"
objOutfile.WriteLine "<BODY BGCOLOR=FFFFF>"
objOutfile.WriteLine "<H1>Server Utilization Report</H1></P>"

Do While objFile1.AtEndOfStream<>True
strServer=objFile1.ReadLine

If strServer<>"" Then
'reinitialize
PerFree=""
Graph=""
Size=""
Free=""

objOutfile.WriteLine "<BR>" & UCASE(strServer) & " Drive Utilization<BR><HR>"

'Create locator
Set objLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
If Err.Number then
objOutfile.WriteLine "Error " & err.number & " [0x" & CStr(Hex(Err.Number)) & "] occurred in creating a locator object.<BR>"
If Err.Description <> "" Then
objOutfile.WriteLine "Error description: " & Err.Description & ".</p>"
End If
Err.Clear
End If

'Connect to the namespace which is either local or remote
'Uncomment next line for debugging
'wscript.echo "Connecting to " & "("&strServer&",root\cimv2)"

Set objService = objLocator.ConnectServer (strServer,"root\cimv2")
ObjService.Security_.impersonationlevel = 3
If Err.Number then
objOutfile.WriteLine "Error " & err.number & " [0x" & CStr(Hex(Err.Number)) &"] occurred in connecting to server " & UCASE(strServer) & ".<BR>"
objOutfile.WriteLine "Make sure you are using valid credentials that have administrative rights on this server.</P>"
If Err.Description <> "" Then
objOutfile.WriteLine "Error description: " & Err.Description & ".</P>"
End If
Err.Clear
Else

objOutfile.WriteLine "<Table Border=0 CellPadding=5>"
For Each item In objService.InstancesOf("Win32_LogicalDisk")
If item.DriveType=3 Then 'get local drives only
PerFree=FormatPercent(item.FreeSpace/item.Size,2)
Graph=FormatNumber((item.Freespace/1048576)/(item.Size/1048576),2)*100
Size=FormatNumber(item.Size/1048576,0) & " MB"
Free=FormatNumber(item.FreeSpace/1048576,0) & " MB"

objOutfile.WriteLine "<TR>"
objOutfile.WriteLine "<TD>" &item.DeviceID & "\ </TD>"
objOutfile.WriteLine "<TD>Size: " & Size & "</TD>"
objOutfile.WriteLine "<TD>Free: " & Free & "</TD>"
objOutfile.WriteLine "<TD><B><Font Size=+1 Color=" & GraphColor(graph) & ">" & String(Graph,"|") & "</Font></B></TD>"
objOutfile.WriteLine "<TD>" & PerFree & " Free</TD></TR>"
End If
Next
objOutfile.WriteLine "</Table>"
End If
End If
Loop
objFile1.Close

objOutfile.WriteLine("</P><Font Size=-1><B><I> Created " & NOW & " by " & objNetwork.UserName & "</I></B></Font>")
objOutfile.WriteLine("</BODY></HTML>")
objOutfile.Close
'commented echo back
'wscript.Echo VBCRLF & "See " & htmfile & " for results"
Function GraphColor(graph)
On Error Resume Next
If Graph > 30 Then
GraphColor=myGreen
Exit Function
End If
If Graph < 10 Then
GraphColor=myRed
Else
GraphColor=myYellow
End If
End Function
Sub CheckResponse(response)
If response="" Then
wscript.Echo "You didn't enter anything in the last input box or you cancelled the script."
wscript.Quit
End If
End Sub

'EOF

An International Days of Action for Squats and Autonomous Public Spaces

nadiacatkinhillman — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:48:11 +0000

An International Days of Action for Squats and Autonomous Public Spaces has
been called for on the 11th and 12th of April 2008.
http://april2008.squat.net:8080/. Across Europe diverse groups of enraged
creatives will be reclaiming spaces for art, housing, workshops,
discussions, talks, films, food, swap-shops, music, performances & open mics
to name but the bare essentials.

Whilst their motives are locally specific, these autonomous actions are
drawn together by common threads: indignation at the impending grip that
corporate expansion has on our cities - from diminishing social housing and
rising rents to the homogenisation of the high street with corporate chains
and the segregation of cities along the lines of wealth and power.

Here in Bristol we will be taking a space and breathing life back into it
for a weekend as momentary rupture with march of high speed commercial
existence - we will show films, parade through the streets, open space for
art, workshops, cabaret, poetry & performance, serve food listen to music
and live a little. Whether your a lock breaking specialist, poet or painter
and would like to get in involved or if you just want to come have a look at
what can be done with love and shoestring please come along!

For more info call: 07528 953 230 / 07591 631 230

FRIDAY 11th
- daytime: Come help create the space
- evening: Film night from 7pm

SATURDAY 12th
- Carnival Parade starting from Albany Green St. Pauls at 11am.
- Art Exhibition open all day
- Cabaret/Open mic, live music

Make & Publish your own Website for Free

Aminul Islam Sajib — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:45:19 +0000

Creating a website is too easy nowadays. Now everyone can make his own website and put information about him or his business, hobby, interests etc. I'm going to inform you about some websites who give this opportunity to publish websites for free*. Let's know something about!

* You must be accepted with their Terms & conditions.

50 Webs
As far as I know 50 webs is the best web hosting & publishing service provider. Though they don't offer as space as other offers, yet their service is fine. Let's find out what do they offer for free.

>> You must register first to their website, www.50webs.com. And then, LogIn.
>> You will be given 60MB space for free hosting.
>> An FTP account will be given to you.
>> An E-mail account will also be given.
>> They'll offer you to use their web based File Manager (for FTP access only).
>> Plus, Integrated HTML editor.
>> Your Domain name will be alike, http://you.50webs.com (sub domain)
<< No advertisements on your website.

Right now, you can register and share your thoughts with the whole world.
[After making a website, please leave your URL here as an acknowledgment!]

Free Servers:
Free servers is another web space & Sub-domain service provider. They offer 10MB less space than 50webs. Please find out the information about them.

>> Registration & LogIn required.
>> Sub Domain as http://you.freeservers.com or http://you.8m.com (some other domains are also available)
>> 50MB space will be given to you.
>> You will get no FTP account.
<< Advertisements on your site.
>> You will have to make your site on a FreeServers' selected template.

Right now, you can register and show the world your activity.
[After making a website, please do not forget to leave your URL here as an acknowledgment.]

Google Pages:
Template based website making system is being offered by Google Pages, Just another super services from the online giant, Google. If you have an account in Gmail, please Log in on http://www.googlepages.com with your account username & password. With the GooglePages, you are to get:

>> 100 MB web space for free.
<< No Advertisements on your site.
>> You will have to make your site only on a google-selected template.
>> HTML editing advantage.
>> Chance to add gadgets on the site.
>> Sub domain as http://you.googlepages.com

Click here now and log in with your existing Gmail account. Then you'll find out your template. Start editing and after finishing, click Publish button to make your site publicly viewable. Then put your URL here as an acknowledgment to me!

Please find out yourselves some other free web hosting & space giving service provider's website.

Free Web Space: 100 MB webspace for Free.
For more site url, please search by Google with the following search term.

Free Web Space and hosting

Then you will be given the result with lots of Free Web space and Hosting Service Provider's web URL searched by the most comprehensive web search engine, Google.

© Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved by:
Aminul Islam

Microsoft oferece armazenamento online até 5GB

fdfandrade — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:53:58 +0000

Os serviços online Live da Microsoft já contavam há algum tempo com a ferramenta gratuita Windows Live SkyDrive, ainda em beta, para armazenamento e partilha de ficheiros na web. Hoje a empresa anuncia o fim desta fase experimental e novidades.

Quando foi lançado, em Agosto de 2007 o SkyDrive oferecia 1GB de capacidade de armazenamento, operando através da identidade unificada Windows Live Id e permitindo a criação de diversas pastas, incluindo pastas partilhadas, dentro do espaço de armazenamento oferecido.

Com o fim da classificação beta sofre diversas melhorias a nível de estabilidade e segurança e vê a sua capacidade máxima de armazenamento aumentada para 5GB.

O Windows Live SkyDrive passa também a estar disponível em mais de 38 países, incluindo Portugal.

in TEK

DivShare Sekarang Harus Bayar

Kang Oedin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:19:32 +0000

Situs penyedia jasa upload file Divshare (www.divshare.com) mulai tanggal 12 Februari 2008 tidak lagi gratis, alias harus bayar bagi user di Cina dan Asia Tenggara termasuk Indonesia kita tercinta. Katanya sih pendapatan iklan mereka di regional itu tidak bisa balik modal. Jadi orang-orang seperti kita tidak lagi bisa download dari DivShare secara gratis lagi.

Pas saya login ke DivShare masih bisa. Tapi ternyata semua fie saya menghilang entak dimakan siapa.

Boleh, sih, itu 'kan hak mereka untuk mencari uang. Tapi kalo file saya hilang semuanya, gimana donk? Katanya mereka bilang "Your files will stay online forever." (Semua file Anda akan online selamanya.) Bullshit!!! (Maaf agak kasar.)

Tapi, tak mengapa karena masih banyak orang yang berbaik hati. Saya terpaksa sedikit-sedikit memindahkan semua file saya (terpaksa upload ulang) ke penyedia jasa yang lain. Saya sarankan Ziddu (www.ziddu.com) atau File Factory (www.filefactory.com).

Mudah-mudahan rekan-rekan tidak terlalu kecewa dengan keputusan DivShare ini. Masih banyak orang yang berbaik hati di dunia ini.

DivShare, mati adja lo!!! DivShare, go to hell!!!

Bagaimana menurut rekan-rekan???

MarsEdit 2.1 brings tagging, server drafts

Andrea — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:43:56 +0000

[Via MarsEdit 2.1 brings tagging, server drafts]

Finalmente due grosse novità! :)

La prima è che MarsEdit supporta nativamente i tag nei post,

l'altra riguarda l'ampliamento a 3Gbyte dello spazio disponibile su wordpress.com

Che volete di più dalla vita?

PS: lo so lo so mi accontento di poco, ma vedere i propri suggerimenti accettati ed implementati da un minimo di soddisfazione, ora non resta che pressare per i tecnorati tag :)

Wordpress Ups Free Space...

Anthony Burns — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:28:10 +0000

YES!!!

Finally I can blog more freely...

Wordpress has uped the free space to 3GB... That's right 3GB for FREE!!! Blogger and Typepad can't even match that...

http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/01/21/three-gigabytes/

Free Space Up To Three Gigabytes On WordPress

Sakib — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:48:19 +0000

As a WordPress lover, it's an great news for me and you too. Today, WordPress announced that, now can use 3 Giga Byte space with out any cost and it's free for you. Now, no need to think of your space limitation. You can upload jpg, jpeg, png, gif, pdf, doc, ppt, odt types of files.

Before, WordPress provides only 50 Mega Bytes and from today up to 3 GB. Specially for professional blogger like this new features. If you are photographer, you can make photo blog site on wordpress.

Even, you can buy more space from wordpress, and as much as you get traffic, you don't think about your bandwidth. Actually, no bandwidth limitation.

So, why you are waiting here? SignUp for an account on WordPress and enjoy your blogging life.

Free Space Up To Three Gigabytes On WordPress

Sakib on PHP — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:48:19 +0000

Before, WordPress provides only 50 Mega Bytes and from today up to 3 GB. Specially for professional blogger like this new features. If you are photographer, you can make photo blog site on wordpress.

Even, you can buy more space from wordpress, and as much as you get traffic, you don't think about your bandwidth. Actually, no bandwidth limitation.

So, why you are waiting here? SignUp for an account on WordPress and enjoy your blogging life.

Wordpress Rocks Again - Much to Do with 3GB Free Space

arunchullikkal — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:23:15 +0000

Ohh! Ohh! I'm loving it. I can't think of a blog without wordpress.

Wordpress Release

Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get half that much space (1GB) at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. We’re doing the same thing for free.

Our hope is that much in the same way Gmail transformed the way people think about email, we’ll give people the freedom to blog rich media without having to worry about how many kilobytes are left in their upload space.

How are we able to do this? Over the past year we’ve developed our file infrastructure, replication, backup, caching, and S3-backed storage to the point where we don’t feel like we need to artificially limit what you folks are able to upload just to keep up with growth. We’re ready for you.

What about the space upgrades? They’re still important. You still need a space upgrade to upload certain file types, like movies, and we’re also increasing the limits of the paid upgrades, so if you bought a 1GB upgrade before it now adds 5GB for no additional charge.

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Planting Places - cultivating urban greenspace

nadiacatkinhillman — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:58:43 +0000

"Calling all urban greenspace champions!:
Help us plant the seeds of truly sustainable communities in the South West

Are you someone who recognises the growing importance of greenspace networks in our towns and cities – for health, biodiversity, local food production, low carbon access, recreation and play, sense of place, quality of life…and all round sustainability? Do you have a vision for the ‘garden’ towns and cities of the future? Would you like a stronger voice in debates about the development of the region? Growth plans are set to create lots of new neighbourhoods in urban areas of the South West alongside plans to regenerate many of our existing communities.

Sustainability South West and initial partners Natural England, Defra and English Heritage want to help cultivate genuinely sustainable communities through its Planting Places project. Planting Places will:

Celebrate and showcase 10 brilliant examples of urban greenspaces in the South West and award each a specially commissioned piece of artwork
Share stories of the people that care for and champion the South West’s urban greenspace
Host a special event for planners and regeneration organisations in March 2008 to explore the importance of urban greenspace for truly sustainable 21st century urban living and to celebrate our Planting Places award winners
Work with partners to produce urban greenspace recommendations for those leading and delivering the growth and regeneration agendas (including web pages and a booklet)
Support the regional networking of urban greenspace champs to strenghten their voice in regional developments and maximise results

...register your interest in the project, telling us a little bit about yourself and how you would like to be involved. Perhaps you’re a local councillor, active resident, regeneration professional, planner, community development worker or just someone who is enthusiastic about the potential of greenspaces to deliver genuinely sustainable communities.

...nominate your top examples of urban greenspaces and their champions in the South West! "

DEADLINE: Friday 25th January 2008.

http://www.sustainabilitysouthwest.org.uk/projects/planting_places/

Новина - 3 GB в Wordpress

tin4e — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:06:49 +0000

Защо обичам Wordpress, може би заради 3 Gb свободно пространство в свободната им блог платформа. Ъпгрейдът е от 50 mb do 3000 mb. Тъкмо беше започналo да ми ставя тясно тук и си мислех за изнасяне на собствен хост и воала up to 3 Gb."Our hope is that much in the same way Gmail transformed the way people think about email, we’ll give people the freedom to blog rich media without having to worry about how many kilobytes are left in their upload space"

Matt Mullenweg

Новината е от Free Space to Three Gigabytes

Quickly free some space on your C Drive :)

c0d3r — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:18:36 +0000

Here is one quick way to free up some empty space in your C Partition, or the partition where your Windows Xp is installed .....

1. Start Command prompt ( Go to Startmenu > Run: type cmd and hit Enter )

2. Type " sfc /purgecache" and hit enter (without the quotes, ofcourse!)

3. The command prompt replies after a few seconds "Windows File Protection successfully made the requested change."

That is ! You have just freed about 500+ MB of space on your Xp Partition :D

What this Command Does:

For the people who really want to know, the SFC executable is a "System File Checker" program, which Scans and verifies the versions of all protected system files after you restart your computer (part of the Windows File Protection (WPF) Feature) ). The /purgecache command purges the file cache and scans all of the protected system files immediately. It deletes backed up DLL Files in the %Systemroot%\System32\Dllcache folder. Dont worry though, it is completely safe to purge the cache.

For further details, and other parameters of the sfc program, visit here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222471

Emergency CallOut to Save Seven Generations!

nadiacatkinhillman — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:44:19 +0000

This week it was announced that Seven Generations will close in a month's time. This will be a huge loss to the community, especially in the abscence of another social/community space in the area. Some of the staff there want to ensure that 7G continues to serve the community andhave been discussing taking on the lease and developing the space into a wholefood cafe, bookshop and space for events and the arts. There is also the idea of using the place for skill-swapping in support of the burgeoning Freeconomy Community . They are open to any ideas and would really value your support. Please go along to an emergency meeting to be held at Seven Generations this Monday Oct 1st evening at 7.30 p.m. Please pass on this info to anyone who you might think able to help or get in touch by e-mail or phone if you can't make the meeting.

A truly awful false dichotomy

Graham Martin — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:04:25 +0000

I've been watching the Google alert emails "Climate Camp" lately and spotted a couple of really quite disturbing pieces. The first appeared on a website called Spiked and the second appeared in the Guardian Online's 'Comment is Free' section, both basically making the exact same argument: that somehow those of us who protested at Drax and Heathrow are in opposition to those who are currently camped at a much less publicised protest at Gatwick Airport.

Starting right at the top, the first article can be found here. The premise seems to be that Greens oppose freedom of movement (the author has never seen me in a discussion about this issue, where I usually get really hot under the collar) while NoBorders activists are promoting some kind of fluffy freedom-to-travel situation.

Firstly, NoBorders is quite a diverse organisation, taking in three main perspectives: the voices of migrants, often deified in a weird way, and yet wrapped in cotton wool at the earliest convenience, those who simply want an end to oppressive rules that threaten the lives of those most in need, and those who, broadly speaking, want to dissolve the nation state as the breeding 'ground' of nationalist feeling, and thus counter-nationalist feeling, aka racism.

Secondly, the No Borders camp has relied on the Climate Camp for equipment, logistics and ideas throughout its process. My understanding, though I couldn't be there, is that the same compost loo structures are being recycled from Climate Camp, and that the kitchen was also at Climate Camp. And remember those huge photos being carried beneath the banner saying "we are armed... only with peer reviewed science"? Most of them are of people who will be forced to migrate if Climate Chaos ensues.

Asylum Seekers do not come here out of choice. Neither, to some extent do migrant workers; they do it because the market has reduced the options for them 'back home'. NoBorders is not about people who have made a choice to come here, not in any real way. They may have selected the UK out of a list of possible destinations, but selection and choice are two totally different things when you really think about it. To say that NoBorders is about Choice and Climate Camp is anti-choice is another matter completely.

There are so many other levels upon which this whole article is wrong. We aren't against choice at all. Free markets do not present choice, they present a predestination based upon economic wisdom and a continuously refined logic of profit that must be allowed to dictate people's decisions. Free markets only benefit from freedom of movement in two ways: by allowing the rich to move between and thus exploit multiple geographic markets at once, and by providing cheap labour that is easily abused and which will move in to take underpaid jobs in richer countries. In a sense Climate Camp is about saying that we can choose something that Capitalism does not put on the menu.

Reading this for the first time, I found myself feeling bewildered that anyone should try and claim that these two movements were somehow completely polar opposites in some way. But I did not that there was an obvious bias against environmentalists in the entire site, and that much of thinking seemed to run on the idea that unrestrained consumption somehow made us better human beings. People do not develop strength of character and deep interpersonal relationships through over consumption, they turn into spoilt brats with shallow relationships, and I think we all recognise this to some extent.

So it was with some disbelief that I found myself reading almost the exact same sentiments in a piece on the Guardian's Comment is Free site, and I have to say, I'm really sorry for the NoBorders folks if this is all the coverage they can get. The take has swung around slightly; because the non-organisation that is Climate Camp hasn't spoken out in defence of the NoBorders camp as it has come under the same sort of pressures from police and councils (if not worse) that the Climate Camp did, this is proof that Climate Campers only care about freedom of speech when it concerns them. I take this very personally and very seriously: how dare anyone claim I'm not in favour of freedom of speech?

Anyhow, this part of the article puzzles me...

It is a six-day event where pro-immigration protesters will demand "freedom of movement for all and an end to all migration controls." They will also demonstrate against the British government's penchant for building prison-like detention centres for "illegal" and "paperless" immigrants, including one inside the grounds of Gatwick airport.

Pro-immigration? True, pro-immigration to the point that people can enter this country, but not pro-immigration in the sense that we want people to be forced to flee their homes. "They will also...", no, the main point of the camp is to protest the building of a new detention center; this isn't simply a minor aside. Oh well...

"today's green ethos, which views movement around the world as toxic and immigrants as intolerable emitters of carbon"

Fuck off, no we do not. We view corporations as intolerable emitters of carbon. And holidaying is not "moving around", its taking a detour which can be just as effective at a fraction the distance. Living simply doesn't mean not traveling, it means traveling in simple ways. I could get to the far east end of Europe with nothing but a ferry ride's worth of carbon emission to show for it, if I cycled the whole way. Its interesting how blind to criticism of corporations this person is, and particularly how determined he (and she, in the previous article) is to have the reader believe that the Climate Camp was anti-consumer and not anti-corporation.

I started to read down the list of comments, and found several of them to be really quite distasteful, whether in support or against the original opinion piece. Then I started to find a few which gave the game away, and make me wonder whether the posters of earlier 'green' comments weren't really friends of the author. I refer you most specifically to the work of LobbyWatch.org, tacitly supported by George Monbiot, who I have at least some respect for, and who have written this list of the activities which Spiked and the network which runs it, LM, have gotten up to.

You see, it turns out that the group that runs Spiked (the author of the guardian piece being the editor of the website) is basically a bunch of lobbyists who believe in a kind of freedom best described as Right-Wing Libertarian. They include 'Natural Law' lovers and other weird sects that have ties in America to groups like the State Militias shown we were introduced to by Michael Moore.

These people work with Genetic Modification companies to create sob stories about protesters being against the natural advance of science, as though anti-Nuclear protesters must be opposed to the natural course of human history. They have also been involved in denying the Rwandan Genocide and accused ITN of making up their groundbreaking reportage of atrocities in Bosnia that have since become the targets of international war crimes tribunals. Some of the other articles on the website are frankly weird, with arguments that fail to hang together.

Back to the Guardian piece and I have just two things I want to pick up on. First, greens are informed by 'ideas' of scarcity. Scarcity is a much documented fact, and anyone who claims that the potential for development is endless is missing staringly obvious facts, and also highly likely to approach development of other people's lands in a way which imposes western values on indigenous populations. Second, that to say ClimateCamp represents the middle-classes taking it out on the poor is a completely stupid suggestion. LM and Spiked are not people from the working classes, they are established business people who want all controls on their activity removing. They believe that we are more human if economic activity is unrestrained, if money rules our lives.

People can be in both camps. To allow people to migrate for economic reasons is to recognise that their weren't enough resources where they were before, and to allow them to migrate for humanitarian reasons is to accept that people are being abused and that this is a serious situation. To imply that environmentalists are somehow small minded to fail to understand the sheer scale of the threat facing humanity and to equate wealth with happiness. These people who wish to divide the two movements are not allies of the NoBorders movement, and they are not representatives of the working classes, but are instead the beneficiaries of all that is wrong with unfettered capitalism, and we must challenge them wherever they raise their heads.

The ones to watch

Graham Martin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:47:22 +0000

Sometimes I get really downbeat about the lack of people across the world who are standing up to oppression. Its happened a lot lately, especially because there's hardly anything going on in the UK now the summer is over, and most of the opportunities that do exist right now for doing political actions are being missed. Given I'm part of the human race and should by now know its tendency to be ever-resistant of repression, its weird how it takes me until there's a few random news stories here and there before I actually remember that somewhere, as ever, someone is resisting.

When I say that there's little going on in the UK, note the totally unresponsive millions affected by the sudden rise in student loan interest as it has switched to a different method of calculating inflation, and you'll see what I mean (this could add serious years to people's loan repayments). 2006 saw a sudden upward bump in the amount of resistance going on in the UK, with thousands taking to the streets nationwide, both locally and in an impressive Emergency National Demo in London (we're talking the Lebanon crises) followed by the first Climate Camp, and rounded off with at least 2 major marches in London and the beginnings of Faslane 365.

This year, we've got a Climate March, a Stop the War march which isn't even on a Saturday, a national day of action that many groups seem determined to remain deaf towards and not much else. Even the NoBorders camp, which is taking place now, seems a bit of downer. Now, this may be the after effects of having witnessed an Earth-shatteringly amazing mobilisation in the summer, but it still kind of sucks to see so little coming out of it.

But Britain is only one country, and very often the activity isn't going on in our country. Sometimes it doesn't look a lot like the action some of us are used to, like in Taiwan where there's been a major protest of over 100,000 people (in a territory China wants to claim is its own) pressing their own government to carry out a referendum that the government already wants to carry out. To some, this might seem a bit of a waste of time, but this is no ordinary referendum; this is Taiwan deciding whether or not it wants to represent itself at the United Nations, separate of the authoritarian nation that claims sovereignty as the only group of people capable of representing Taiwan's needs.

For all the faults of the UN, when a nation decides to make a move towards independence against a nation the size and strength of China, we owe them respect, and we probably also owe them some support. These people are marching for a tiny step towards some vague notion of freedom which I could easily dismiss, yet in the face of one of the world's most dangerous super-powers, this is perhaps as brave as Alaska declaring independence and taking its oil fields with it. For all I could disagree with them, I wish them every success and hope they succeed in some real way.

Then we have Burma, where Buddhist monks are standing up to a regime more interested in playing with its water cannons than accepting that the time for such blatant forms of dictatorship is over. In a culture and a conflict I have little understanding of, here are a bunch of monks, religious people like myself, making a stand. The BBC reports that they marched in silence (never seen how this is empowering), but that they fought back when attacked (which could raise a whole other debate). Yahoo managed to report on the situation by day three (Thursday)

For the first time in nearly 20 years, the people of Burma are finding strength, they're on the march, and it may only be a matter of time before they finally claim a victory, which may not last all that long (representative democracy is only a partial solution to dictatorship, leaving space plenty of room for elites to dominate just as effectively, if over shorter periods of time), but here democracy of a sort is rising and people are doing something. I find this inspiring, despite my cynicism over the possibilities for success either at a basic or a deep-down level. Again, good luck to them.

There are other places where struggles are taking place that we do not hear about. These are struggles in which people are fighting for their lives, yet their lives are not worth the time of day for news agencies and media outlets to report. That doesn't mean they're not there.

But amidst all the quiet here in the UK, there's one campaign which has really caught my eye, and continues to do so. The more I learn and see of it, the more impressed I am with the spirit of the campaign, and how deeply rooted in culture and community it seems to be. In a way, I just guess I'm glad no political party has got its hands on the campaign. I'm talking about the campaign to free Krek and Mers which I wrote about a few days ago.

I've now seen photos of the "Skate and Graf Jam", and I'm left wondering why the hell anyone still thinks marches are a good idea in this country: it was colourful, youthful and by all accounts exciting. T-shirts have sold out (and thankfully look nothing like the Stop the War ones which are getting so predictable). I'm inspired by the creativity, the freshness and the heartfelt determination to stand up to injustice that is being taken up across the UK, and even the world it seems, mostly by people with no idea of how to write to their MP or whatever.

And its been particularly exciting to see where the debate has swung on the Facebook group, with someone actually raising the issue of crimes against property being different to crimes against people, and some interesting historical analysis (and trust the activist to start using jargon!). Maybe, somewhere below all the apathy and the quite short-sighted politics going on in Britain there really is still a desire for justice, democracy and liberty.