Hugh Barnard

Here’s the slides for my talk for the 2025 Science Fair at UEL.

why-not-try-a-pi

 

Here’s a set of slightly messy slides on open source alternatives to proprietary software, some of the barriers to adoption, and some tactics to overcome the barriers. It’s a bit of a work in progress but hopefully useful to some people ‘as is’.

switching-to-opensource

Here’s the link to the presentation: https://hughbarnard.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/switching-to-opensource.pdf

Printed version now available at: Housmans, Kings X and Freedom Bookshop, Whitechapel.

Here’s the epub version:  the-algorithmic-anarchist as epub

A friend just said that he could read plain pdf more easily, so here we go: pdf version of the exact same thing

Here’s the cover and back of the printed version, the image is Don Quixote as cyberpunk rendered (ironically, of course) by generative AI:

nvd5wep_1_print_cover

 

 

I found this in a folder on my computer. Enjoy or not.

Bean Man, a modern tale

Apparently some links in Slack didn’t work. So here’s the material again.

Cclite2 Short Description

and the presentation on money made at LARC:

Doing Money Differently

Thanks to everyone who expressed interest and enjoyed talking to everyone.

Here’s my goodbye essay to ‘official’ borough engagement. I’ve given up.

goodbye-engagement

Here’s the direct link: https://hughbarnard.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/goodbye-engagement.pdf

Quick talk for September 2022

presentation

Last year, I published this using a slightly less adversarial title. However, we’re one year on, a) not the tiniest thing has changed b) I’ve also been on the other side participating in a project now, so I’ve added some commentary about my experience with that.

Currently the sole solution from the borough is to be defensive and double down on ‘comms’. I had hoped for better, mais ça s’annonce mal whatever that is, in French.

Here you go:  neutering-the-participative-budget-v3

Old tracks from before the flood.

Harmony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXvyyWBQjck Dancing Bear: Mamas and Papas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ecsAI3FhY Time of the Season (lyrics are somewhat creepy): Zombies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2hXBf1DakE She’s not There: Zombies

https://youtu.be/G2fnd2L3WlY Ancient Traveller: Mighty Baby (lots of Hendrix style white notes)

Psychedelia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0 White Rabbit: Jefferson Airplane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gatuDgxIrUw Egyptian Tomb: Mighty Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oJWZnJImEU House without Windows: Mighty Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwnyoH5DpNE Maybe the People will…: Love (the reference is to the Whisky A Gogo)

https://youtu.be/FUen3Y2OhQ8 Sunny Day Strut: Hot Tuna (spun this on the Oregon State Uni station in Corvallis in about 1986)

Funk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsrqKE1iqqo Low Rider: WAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_zwVmiuE Picking Up the Pieces: Average White Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ckIovZRwk Hihache: Lafayette Afro Rock Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eR4aQrYozY Funkadelic : Cosmic Slop (Michael Hampton is under the hat, I think)

https://youtu.be/WLQeIbAfeAM Maggot Brain: Funkadelic with Eddie Hazell (not really funk but)

https://youtu.be/sEWrWm0ydnY Creepin’ : Bootsie + Kingfish (and Mrs Bootsie?)

Rock/Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkzdiR413FU Little Red Rooster: Stones (this is a Willie Dixon song though)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJyc9uAlzxs Prodigal Son : Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer (I think)

Hendrix

https://youtu.be/lObvUP6bpuQ Up From Skies: Hendrix (becomes more relevant each year)

https://youtu.be/KNXUuw4to-c Angel: Hendrix

https://youtu.be/iaE4s3m8UOQ Little Wing: Hendrix (don’t leave home without this)

https://youtu.be/zxv3LSa0mNo One Rainy Wish: Hendrix

Folk Revival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOB57UcYk8 Who Knows where the Time Goes: Fairport Convention (Sandy Denny Period)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auG8lldv_qE First Time I Ever Saw Your Face : Jansch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCbGn7b1XQM Sunday Morning: Michael Chapman (one guitar DGDGBE tuning?)