http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress that’s breviary stuff, that is Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:47:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first title from Breviary Stuff Publications is now in print. It is Buchanan Sharp's scholarly study, In Contempt of All Authority, Rural Artisans and Riot in the West of England, 1586-1660. On its first publication, (University of California Press, 1980), Christopher Hill remarked, "I have rarely recommended a book ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2010/03/05/breviary-stuff-publications-launches/ The One Day House, a 4-track "EP" from Henry Snowstorm, is now released. 4 instrumentals in a hiphop/downtempo flavour. Like the previous albums, it is available as a free download. Track Listing: 1. Rough Music 2. The One Day House 3. Paradise at the Epicenter 4. Who? Me!? the Wild Beast Records (TWB ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/10/08/henry-snowstorm-the-one-day-house/ Two radical history pamphlets; the former supposes a high level of prior knowledge of its subject, whereas the latter serves as an introduction. Historical Geography Research Series No. 1, 1979 Andrew Charlesworth - Social Protest in a Rural Society : The Spatial Diffusion of the Captain Swing Disturbances of 1830-1831 (78pp.) http://www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall/academic_departments/geography/HGRG/Research%20Series.html 1830 was ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/10/01/two-radical-history-pamphlets-old-and-new/ Last weekend I went along to the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival. (For those who have never heard of the Tolpuddle Martyrs: "On February 24th, 1834, six farm labourers from Tolpuddle [Dorset, UK] were arrested on a charge of taking part in an ‘illegal oath’ ceremony. The real offence was that they ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/07/24/bristol-radical-history-group-at-the-tolpuddle-martyrs-festival/ No Quarter #4 Issue number 4 of No Quarter, the publication sometimes described as "a zine about radical history", has been released. This issue contains The "Illegalists" by Doug Imrie, reprinted from Anarchy: a Journal of Desire Armed. Illegalism is the anarchist philosophy which embraces criminality as a method of reappropriation ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/07/05/no-quarter-publications/ It is said that public confidence in politicians is at a very low ebb following the Telegraph's leaking (and subsequent reporting by most newspapers) of the majority of politicians' questionable expenses claims. Claiming for second homes, piano tuning, clearing of a moat (£2,115), an ornamental duck house (£1,645), swimming pool ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/05/25/greedy-thieving-bastards/ A video of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble performing Mushalla outside BBC Television Centre is avaliable to view at the BBC website. A great track. They were billed to appear on the BBC television show Later with Jools Holland but did not – I don't know why. They have recently released ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/05/22/hypnotic-brass-ensemble-mushalla/ A new version of the unofficial Claws Mail ClamAV™ Plugin has been released. Version 3.5 supports Clam AntiVirus™ version 0.95, libclamav 6:2:0 — that is, at least it does once you apply the Personal Build patch. Further details and downloads can be found on the Unofficial Claws Mail ClamAV™ Plugin ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/04/10/unofficial-claws-mail-clamav%e2%84%a2-plugin-version-35-unleashed/ If only it were true. Since google launched gmail IMAP the Claws Mail development team (and several Claws Mail users) seem to have devoted a proportionately high amount of time to answering questions and working around problems that arise through gmail's IMAP implementation. The same must surely be true of other ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/03/18/google-offers-large-donations-to-foss-email-application-projects/ Following on from the previous post, it is worth noting a recent news item which has revealed that, on average, in England and Wales a parent is sent to jail every two weeks for their child's truancy. There were 10,000 prosecutions in England alone in 2007. This is all part of ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/02/15/sentenced-to-education/ Who Cares about the White Working Class? is "a new study on the white working class and ethnic diversity in Britain"1 published by The Runnymede Trust, an "independent policy research organisation focusing on equality and justice through the promotion of a successful multi-ethnic society."2 "The essays in this volume all point ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/02/07/its-a-class-thing/ In 21 days, 27-Dec-08 to 18-Jan-09: Total Casualties: Palestinian Israeli 1,300dead5,100injured 13dead80injured Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jan/03/israelandthepalestinians ------ Palestine Solidarity Campaign: http://www.palestinecampaign.org/ Stop the War Coalition: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/ War on Want: http://www.waronwant.org/ Jews for Justice for Palestinians: http://www.jfjfp.org/ http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2009/01/19/the-disproportionate-israeli-attacks-on-gaza/ Track Listing: 1. The Western Rising 2. Henry's Pipe and Tool Works 3. Sneak Attack 4. Sing a Song of Violence 5. Hashashin 6. Demolition Ballroom 7. My One Flesh 8. Lights Went Out 9. Saviour 10. Don't Let Go 11. Airflow 12. Hang On the Wild Beast Records (TWB 2) The new album from Henry Snowstorm has just ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/12/18/henry-snowstorm-demolition-ballroom/ Track Listing: 1. Make the Road by Walking 2. Tired of Fighting 3. Home Again! 4. Montego Sunset 5. Karina 6. The Traitor 7. The Contender 8. Birds 9. Esma 10. ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/11/20/menahan-street-band-make-the-road-by-walking/ James Holstun's essay Rational Hunger: Gerard Winstanley's Hortus Inconclusus in Pamphlet Wars, Prose in the English Revolution, is refreshing reading. He hits the nail on the head in both the way he exposes certain historians disregard for the historical significance of the Diggers, and in his clear insight into why ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/09/25/diggers-then-is-another-part-of-now/ William Paley wrote in his Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, (1785, Book VI, Chapter 2), there is nothing in the human character which would more surprise us, than the almost universal subjugation of strength to weakness — than to see many millions of robust men, in the complete use and ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/08/03/the-physical-strength-lies-in-the-governed/ The twenty-four orders of rogues and vagabonds, as detailed in Thomas Harman's pamphlet, Caueat for Commen Cursetors, London 1566. (quoted from Frank Aydelotte, Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds, 1913) Rufflers sturdy vagbonds who begged from the strong and robbed the weak Upright Men vagabonds who were strong enough to be chiefs or magistrates among ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/18/rogues-and-vagabonds-the-24-orders/ No Quarter a zine about radical history http://anarchistpirates.blogspot.com Issue 3 of No Quarter has recently been published. This issue contains… • A reprint of Lost Utopias by Ron Sakolsky, "scholar of music, revolution and radio", from issue 3 of his self-published, anarchist-surrealist zine, Oystercatcher. • An interview with a member of the Bristol Radical History ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/18/no-quarter-3/ Between the years 1626 and 1632 there were massive anti-enclosure riots in western England. Collectively known as The Western Rising, these riots occurred in Gillingham Forest on the Dorset-Wiltshire border, the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, Braydon Forest in Wiltshire, Feckenham Forest in Worcestershire and Leicester Forest. The cause ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/18/the-western-rising/ Knowing the history of the relationship between Claws Mail and Sylpheed, it was amusing to read the release announcement for Sylpheed 2.5.0 earlier this week: * New features o The vertical 3-paned view mode was added. ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/06/19/sylpheed-apes-claws-mail/ the hancock project. A film by Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson (London Fieldworks) Institvtvm Pataphysicvm Londiniense Department of Reconstructive Archaeology, dora 4 DVD. For distribution only to members and friends of the Institute. 33 signed copies (I to XXXIII), and 99 copies numbered 1 to 99. Anthony Hancock, Paintings & Sculpture: A Retrospective Exhibition ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/06/14/the-hancock-project/ The enclosure movement and the slave trade ushered industrial capitalism into the modern world. By 1832 England was largely closed, its countryside privatized (some even mechanized), in contrast to a century earlier when its fields were largely open—"champion" country, to use the happy technical term—and yeoman, children, women could subsist ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/06/07/the-power-is-always-on-the-side-of-the-people-when-they-choose-to-act/ The first official release of an unofficial Claws Mail plugin is now available. It is available from the Unofficial Claws Mail ClamAV™ Plugin page here on this blog. This latest release of the plugin will build against the ClamAV™ 0.93 (libclamav 4:1:0) release and all older versions, once it is patched, of ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/04/unofficial-claws-mail-clamav%e2%84%a2-plugin-v34-unleashed/ Everyone is familiar with this, no doubt… I recently switched power supplier, because the previous one's prices were rising steeply. The previous company had overcharged me, my final statement from them told me as much. Two months later they still hadn't paid me back, so I telephoned their 'customer support' line, ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/01/bullshit-companies/ Following the awful review of Claws Mail in issue 86 of Linux Magazine — awful because of its inaccuracies — I wrote a critical blog post and informed the editor, Joe Casad, of my post, thoughts and feelings. He quickly responded, apologising and offering further coverage of Claws Mail ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/04/26/claws-mail-article-in-linux-magazine/ Since the Claws Mail ClamAV™ plugin was dropped there have been several comments made in several places; Naturally enough, people have been confused over the incompatibilities of GPLv3 and GPLv2 — some thought it would be possible to simply release the ClamAV™ plugin under GPLv2, (it's not), some imagined that ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/02/29/claws-mail-clamav-gplv2-gplv2-gplv3-and-the-clamav-plugin/ Due to Licensing Issues™ the Claws Mail ClamAV™ Plugin has been dropped. It seems that Sourcefire®, the company who employ the core ClamAV™ developers, wish all the ClamAV™ code to be published under GPLv2 only, and this is Incompatible™ with the GPLv3+ license that Claws Mail has. You might Think™ that it ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/02/14/claws-mail-drops-clamav-plugin/ From an interview with John Pilger in today's The Guide supplement in The Guardian… Q: Who wants to be a millionaire?A: This is the song Tony Blair hums every morning when he rises and tots up his latest windfall — a million for telling business groups in China nothing they didn't ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/02/09/hums-every-morning/ Following my ripperX patch, which added a GTK2 interface, internationalisation, and improved the use of the autotools build system, [read about it here], I became a member of the ripperX development team at SourceForge. Today I committed a modified version of my patch to the ripperX SVN. The modifications involved a ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2008/01/25/ripperx-gtk2-goes-official/ Four Henry Snowstorm beats have been used on the recently released DannyHouse EP by MC Jon Wayne. MC Jon Wayne - DannyHouse EP 1. Read The Script 2. Sexual Harassment* 3. Not Bombs* 4. Lyrical Diabetes* 5. Interlude 6. Don't You Think?* 7. Garbage Rhymes These beats were originally available on the Henry Snowstorm instrumental album Civil Unrest. ___________________________________ Henry ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/12/01/henry-snowstorm-meets-mc-jon-wayne/ Also see the Winsor McCay - Little Nemo In Slumberland Vol 1 entry in the Reading List category. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/11/29/little-nemo-in-slumberland/ Mirko Albrecht is a lazy reviewer, but I don't believe he is unique in having this quality. I am referring specifically to his article in the January 2008 issue, (No. 86), of Linux Magazine, entitled "YOU’VE GOT MAIL", which can be downloaded in PDF format here. The article claims to ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/11/29/linux-magazine-reviews-claws-mail/ Wee (as men) confident of your integrity did chuse you as our Proctors and Atturnies, the King's Majesty with his best councell and we (the poore Commons) entrusted you with all we had but we had no mistrust that you would deceive us of all we had. We trusted you ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/11/29/the-generall-complaint/ I left my provincial small town this morning for a job interview in a city, a reasonably lengthy train journey away. The extremes of poverty and wealth that are seen side by side in a city are sickening, so it was nice to return. I sat for a while in a ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/09/27/a-job-in-the-city-thats-the-life/ Having recently sorted out a wifi connection at home and bought a couple 2GB SD cards, my n800 has suddenly come to life. But what has really made it sparkle is booting from the internal MMC card. Plenty more space and also almost double the speed. For anyone who hasn't ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/09/22/n800-bigger-better-faster/ I wanted to listen to the French radio stations France Inter and Europe1 on my n800 internet tablet but found that I could not launch the players available on their web sites using the browsers, (or, more likely, the Flash plugin), on the n800. Should anyone else want to do the ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/09/22/listen-to-french-radio-on-n800/ It was sadly inevitable. Gordon Brown's government are encouraging the police to use the new 'anti-terror' laws against peaceful protesters in the UK. (That is the Gordon Brown who is the unelected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.) These are climate change protesters who are against the further expansion of Heathrow ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/08/12/drop-the-tent-peg-or-ill-shoot/ I saw a picture of a balloon suddenly and unexpectedly soaring and some people still holding onto the ropes connected to the balloon were suddenly jerked into the air and most of them didn't have the survival IQ to let go in time. Seconds later they are sixty, a hundred ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/08/11/survival-techniques/ Thanks to a very generous donation from Claws Mail user Guido Rudolphi, Colin and I are now owners of the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. This will enable us to discover just how justified the complaints from the oh-so-demanding n800 users of Claws Mail actually are, and where other improvements can ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/07/09/claws-mail-development-on-maemo/ No Quarter an anarchist zine about pirates, brigands, and millenarian revolt http://anarchistpirates.blogspot.com My article from this breviary stuff, entitled TheaurauJohn : A Name, Not The Thing, is reprinted in the recently published issue 2 of the No Quarter anarchist zine. It also includes an interesting interview with Marcus Rediker, the historian, writer, teacher, ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/06/18/no-quarter/ RipperX is a GTK app that rips CD audio tracks and encodes them to the Ogg, MP3, or FLAC formats. It is also my favourite simple ripping tool, but it still uses the ugly GTK1 interface. That was my motivation to write a patch that ports ripperX to GTK2. Patch against ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/21/ripperx-gtk2/ Hypnotic Brass Ensemble : War / Mercury 10" single This record just arrived in the post, so I slapped it on the turntable and immediately the clouds parted and the sun began to shine, a feeling began to develop inside and a smile appeared on my face. Music rarely gets as ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/12/hypnotic-brass-ensemble/ French citizens vote for the police state. President George W Bush has already phoned to say well done. Thatcher reborn? Let's hope not. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/07/sarkozy-wins-french-election/ Perhaps Jeremy Paxman's only quality is his interview technique, but it's a good one. Here's one such example, from BBC TV's Newsnight, 4th June 2001, which is worthy of recollection. Tony Blair provides the role of the ideal interviewee, stumbling and bumbling through his responses and clumsily confirming New Labour's ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/02/that-is-not-my-question/ Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra is a Bushwick, Brooklyn based afrobeat band that is modelled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. Although their music is primarily afrobeat, their music incorporates elements of jazz, funk, dub, improvised music, and traditional drumming from Cuba and West Africa. ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/antibalas-afrobeat-orchestra-live-recordings/ Moving from Thunderbird to Claws Mail is getting easier. Now, in addition to the mailbox conversion script, (tbird2claws.py), we have added a script that converts Thunderbird filtering rules to Claws Mail filtering rules, thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl. So, in next to no time you can start a leaner, meaner email experience. http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/ Henry Snowstorm has just released his first album, entitled 'Civil Unrest'. It's available as a free download from the Wild Beast, so head on over to www.thewildbeast.co.uk/henrysnowstorm/ and give it a listen. File it under beats, under hip-hop, under jazz, under funk, under leftfield, file it under whatever you want ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/10/henry-snowstorm-civil-unrest/ Component: Sidebar Widgets Plugin, version 1.0.20060711 Patch: SidebarWidgets_no-title-means-no-header_plus_rem-wordpress.com-meta-link.patch Apply this patch in the /wp-content/plugins/widgets/ directory. Description: This patch does 2 things: 1. It affects the Text widgets, removing the empty header, ( ), that is added to a text widget that has no title. The empty header is an annoyance because it adds an empty ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/01/29/2-wordpress-patches/ Claws Mail 2.7.2 has been unleashed! [release notes] [download] http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/01/27/claws-mail-272/ Of course, don't believe everything you read, especially if you read it in a newsgroup. The Claws Mail 2.6.1 thread on alt.comp.freeware is full of it. Susan Bugher writes of Claws Mail/Sylpheed-Claws and Sylpheed, "I've been trying to sort out the current situation with these apps", but apparently didn't think of ... http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/01/16/claws-mail-fud-on-altcompfreeware/