Sean @ Paganarchy

What ho!

I just saw that the wonderful people at Freedom Press have published a review of Liber Malorum in their issue dated February 16th.

The reviewer writes:

The stories and poems of Liber Malorum quest variously into the realms of magic, witchcraft, anarchism, psychedelic drugs and sex. There are spiritual uprisings in the desert, rebellions in the groves and woods, pirates, criminals, faerie huggers, subversives queering from police cells, tricksters and shape shifters. Keep your eyes out too for the myriad of nuances, messages and codes throughout. This is the stuff of the underground cult classic.

I'm so chuffed it has been enjoyed! Read the full review here.

With that high note, I'm looking for other places to have Liber Malorum reviewed. If you can think of any, please let me know.

Hugs to all from Sean!

Yesterday was fantastic - I'm spending the Easter few days in and around Brighton, and when I heard that the White Owl posse was hosting a sweat lodge, I went along. I've had a sweat with this crew before, and it was intense. This time around, I went in feeling much more grounded and managed to hold my ground even during the most vicious and hot rounds.

For anyone who hasn't been to a sweat lodge, it is a kind of ceremonial sauna in which there are several rounds of ceremonial sweating. Basically rocks are heated on the fire, brought in to the blessed enclosed space and then splashed with water. It can get very hot in there! The more grounded I'm feeling, the more bearable the heat is though it is always a challenge in one way or another.

Yesterday's lodge was incredibly beautiful and cleansing. It's as if so many of my angsts and bothers are stored in my pores and there's nothing like a good old sweat to banish them. It's like a wicked magical cleansing and purifying ceremonial and I am feeling fantastic now! So next time you give me a call and I invite you to come get sweaty, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Sweaty hugs to all from Sean

I'm really surprised to see something like this in the Jerusalem Post:

The Palestinian Authority is planning to mark Israel's 60th anniversary by calling on all Palestinians living abroad to converge on Israel by land, sea and air.

The plan, drawn by Ziad Abu Ein, a senior Fatah operative and Deputy Minister for Prisoners' Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, states that the Palestinians have decided to implement United Nations Resolution 194 regarding the refugees.

Article 11 of the resolution, which was passed in December 1948, says that "refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible."

The initiative is the first of its kind and is clearly aimed at embarrassing Israel during the anniversary celebrations by highlighting the issue of the "right of return" for the refugees.

I'm sure this will be embarrassing for the Zionist movement. It's turn the old Zionist call of the "Right of Return" to Israel on its head. And why wouldn't the Palestinians also have the right to live in the land where they grew up eh?

The rest of the article is over on the Jerusalem Post.

Sean

Hello,

if anyone out there tries to install kubuntu linux on their new vaio ar61s, and they choose the default options, their installation will fail upon the first reboot and return either an "error 21" or an "error 2". these basically mean that GRUB cannot find the disk specified during the grub configuration step. this has something to do with RAID on the disks - but it's not real RAID so you have to turn it off for kubuntu to work:

i was battling the box for feckin' ages and came up with this solution:

* go into BIOS by pressing F2 during startup.

* within BIOS, tell it to "SHOW RAID INFORMATION".

* save and exit BIOS. it will restart.

* during restart, a new screen appeared - this is the RAID INFORMATION. when it asks you to during a splash screen, press Control+I which takes you into the RAID and partition info & config screens.

* In that screen, disable RAID on the first disk. it's not real RAID and it's just software trickery! you don't need it.

* so you've done that, now save and exit and reboot - and presto the ERROR 21 has disappeared.

* So has RAID.

* i am posting this from a fully functioning kubuntu vaio ar61s laptop. yay!

* next stop - the motion eye camera and the minjack output. let me know if you got these sorted, and how.

good luck with it.

Sean