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Dream of what could be
I have a dream. An open community, that is both free and fair, where the community is in control, where everybody is free from oppression and their voice can be heard.

Do you think it is possible? I do but it will take honesty, integrity, determination and belief to archive it.

Disappointment hurts
It’s sad when things don’t turn out quite how you expected them to. I’m talking about Open Designs. The community promised so much when it was first launched under a fanfare of “a community site, run by the community for the community”. It seems that it wasn’t to be and the site has firmly remained under the control of a few people who seem reluctant to open the site up to the community.

Money is evil I tell you
Is it the money? The site must make a reasonable sum of money from adverts and donations. I’m sure there is more than enough to pay for hosting and a few prizes for competitions. I do wonder if money really is the “root of all evil”. It often seems that money causes more problems than it solves. I would rather see no money and a thriving community rather than a rich autocracy.

…and finally
Time will tell. I hope it is not the end of the dream and that the community can overcome it problems.

Wow, hasn’t time flown since I last posted. And still the world is turning… Did you miss me? Of course you didn’t

I recently got an email from Tim Zylinski who has updated his German translation files for my themes:

• Chameleon: http://www.zyblog.de/data/chameleon-de_DE.zip
• Ebony: http://www.zyblog.de/data/ebony-de_DE.zip
• WP-Andreas06: http://www.zyblog.de/data/wp-andreas06-de_DE.zip
• WP-Andreas09: http://www.zyblog.de/data/wp-andreas09-de_DE.zip
• WP-Multiplex 3: http://www.zyblog.de/data/wp-multiflex-3-de_DE.zip

While he was at it he also tested all the themes in WordPress 2.5 and they are all compatible.  Tim has kindly taken the time to enter them in the WP 2.5  compatibility list.

Thanks Tim. What a great guy!

I was speaking to Sean the other day and he mentioned that his local park doesn’t allow dogs even on a leash. Locally around here there are signs warning about £1000 fines if you don’t clean up after your dog. It seems that people aren’t that keen on dogs and their mess!

It may seem unrelated but I went out for a run today. Yes I do that to try and keep fit! No I didn’t see loads of dog faeces but I did see loads of litter. I passed tons of the stuff. There were discarded McDonalds cups and bags, plastic bags full of litter, Christmas crackers, lumps of polystyrene, and even old clothing. All this was along the side of the road in the grass verge looking like it had been discarded from the passing cars.

Now I know dog poo isn’t nice, nobody wants to stand in it, it shouldn’t be left in the middle of the pavement, and you should clean it up, but at least it is biodegradable and won’t be here in a few weeks never mind the hundreds of years some of the other litter will be with us for.

It’s a shame the same effort that has been put in to the dog mess problem hasn’t been put into the litter problem!

Nobody seems to care as long as they don’t step in it!

Hello and a happy but late New Year to you all. Let’s hope that 2008 is a good year for everybody, everywhere.

I’m busy studying for yet another exam that I shall be taking in a few days! Only 1 more after this one so the end is in sight. There’s a bit of light at the end of the tunnel at last.

Once my exams are out of the way I have been thinking about changing direction here at Webgazette.co.uk. When I first started this website I intended it to be about other websites - a sort of "best of the web" type thing. Now I am thinking of going back to that.

I wouldn’t remove any of the existing content but I may rearrange it a bit.

What do you think? Has anybody got any thought or comments on this?