update `wp_options` set `option_value` = replace(`option_value`, “http://localhost:8888/mysite”, “http://www.mysite.co.uk/wp”);

That’s it! If other references to your localhost exist (eg. as image addresses in your posts, you can run other queries to deal with them, just swap `wp_options` and `option_value` with the relevant table_name and field_name respectively.

Basically I see three major points in his approach:

1. Goal-orientated not hour-orientated work.
2. Explicit and regularly updated lists of wants/goals.
3. Taking control of daily life by understanding its patterns.

Foremost (in my reading) he tries to understand what is being produced by the processes of his life and actions by examining his everyday existence with a granular detail through two initial metrics: time spent, and money spent. He breaks down both types of spending, with utmost attention to detail, whilst trying not inflect/bius it through being aware of the figures. This is crucial to me, as it implies an acceptance of the proposition that his wants/desires will manifest themselves not only through his explicit, conscious goals, but also through his daily behavioural patterns.

I’ve never had a close grasp (indeed I’ve never wanted a close grasp) of the operational realities of my own life- it has seemed to me in some inchoate fashion that to examine the abstract and indefinable qualities of a life through any practical framework will engender only hypocrisy and illusion, and moreover make one subject to the discourse/control of others. But this is, I realise, the position of a hermit- an individual who has absolute responsibility only for him or herself, since the function of the framework is to allow others to judge/collaborate/communicate via a common value-system (even if this communality is itself merely a case of mass-self-hypnosis). It is my belief now that in order to retain/gain control of oneself within a society/discourse one must be aware of what that ‘self’ is composed of through the notionally shared metrics of that social group.

Which is a rather flabby way of saying that in order to work out what I am, and what I want, with the handy by-product of gaining practical knowledge about the patterns of my passing hours and pennies, that I have begun to use Jonathan’s method, starting with a microfinance system. I’ve never known how much I spend, or on what- it’s always seemed more appropriate to concentrate on what I can make, and how fast (as long as it’s always a case of More, Faster). I’m hoping that having a total breakdown of what happens to cash I spend will give me some explicit understanding of the desires I’m seeking to fulfill, which have remained to me thus far opaque.

There will be other metrics, but this seems like a good place to start, since I’m looking for a new flat, and I don’t want to have to eat my own effluent.

But he was very anxious, for he was still too cold headed himself to give in to this mass hysteria. Also his pride as a leader was hurt as he saw the mob slipping out of his control and doing wild things far beyond the cold execution of the People’s Will that he had planned. He tried in vain to restore order, saying that they must not put their enemies in the right by committing acts of senseless destruction.

-Zola, Germinal. Part 5, chapter 3. p.309 in Penguin paperback (1975) translated by Leonard Tancock (1954).

Just had this platform inserted into my live/work space. Pretty jolly, huh? Great chap called Marcus sold me the tubes, and as we delivered them together I realised it was going to be a pretty tough job erecting the structure. He agreed to help and it was done inside an hour. Neat. And less dangerous than it would have been if I had built it. I assure you. Chip chip!

A while ago I began to think of re-presenting familiar natural structures, as either other structures equally familiar, or as chimera- recombinations of separately recognisable forms. I’ve been enjoying the resulting patterns somewhat, and want to pursue the method. For these Anatomy Jams I’ve been using images I scanned from De humani corporis fabrica, the seminal work of Renaissance anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius, as illuminated by Titian’s students/employees. There are some beautiful drawings among these pages, I recommend it. I became fascinated by the matter-of-fact intimations of mortality and of humanity- a no man’s land between art, science, philosophy. I’m not sure it’s exactly aligned in motivation, but I began to follow Morbid Anatomy, a fantastic blog which locates and exhibits a range of amazing images of anatomical diagrams, and also physical abnormalities. Perhaps the thrust is more Victorian Curiosity Cupboard than anything else, but those images, seriously. Here’s one of my favourites.

I’ll upload more of these Anatomy Jams as I develop the idea. I’d be grateful for any thoughts.

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This is fine- plenty of things go cold after a while, and a plenty of people have cash flow issues they didn’t anticipate. I considered billing for the time already spent, but given that this only amounts to a couple of hundred quid, I decided to call it quits, chalk it down to experience, and trust All on Red Management not to break the law.

But just now, on a vague hunch (“don’t trust A&R”) I googled ‘All on Red Management,’ and guess what….

Yep. That’s the logo I designed for All on Red Management, who didn’t pay their deposit, online on their Myspace page.

You can see a larger copy of it here, on Skitch.

I’m no lawyer, that’s why I have a lawyer. But I have a suspicion there’s a difference between straightforward image piracy (where you nick someone’s work, they find it, you take it down) and this, where you hire somebody to do a job, don’t pay their deposit, and then publicly use their work, for the role it was intended to fulfill.

Simply, I’m disgusted with the behaviour of All on Red Management, and I intend to pursue this as far as possible, simply as a matter of principle. I’ll keep y’all posted as this develops.

Stop Press: they’ve taken the logo off their myspace… But I’m not sure if this changes anything. I am going to check.

Just for completeness, here’s the logo. I started from the fantastic Big Boned display face, but redrew the entire thing from scratch to fit a 3 by 3 square grid. It’s not finished- I was planning on having it cut out of thick card and laid upon different red objects, for an analogue touch…

I’ve always loved the ramshackle ornament of Leeds’ Victorian terraces, the perceptible if slight dissonance between intention and realisation.

Also I enjoy variant focal depths on reflected objects. So you probably shouldn’t listen to me. Instead, try putting a piece of paper between the above two images, and move your head closer to the screen so that you can only see one side with each eye. What do you see?

The king of a country a long way off had three sons. He liked one as well as another, and did not know which to leave his kingdom to after his death: so when he was dying he called them all to him, and said, ‘dear children, the laziest sluggard of the three shall be king after me.’ ‘Then,’ said the eldest, ‘the kingdom is mine, for I am so lazy that when I lie down to sleep, if anything were to fall into my eyes so that I could not shut them, I should still go on sleeping.’ The second said, ‘Father, the kingdom belongs to me; for I am so lazy that when I sit by the fire to warm myself, I would sooner have my toes burnt than take the trouble to draw my legs back.’ The third said, ‘Father, the kingdom is mine; for I am so lazy that if I were going to be hanged, with the rope around my neck, and somebody were to put a sharp knife into my hands to cut it, I had rather be hanged than raise my hand to do it.’ When the father heard this, he said, ‘You shall be king; for you are the fittest man.’

-Grimms’ Fairy Tales

I’ve been enjoying these recently. Occasionally just funny, like that. More often there are alien moralities, and these are equally compelling. Try Cat-Skin, in which a king’s wife dies, and there is no woman so beautiful as her, and so he cannot remarry, and becomes very sad. However, when his daughter comes of age, he realises that she is every bit as lovely as her dead mother. He expresses his desire, to her horror. She flees and hides disguised as a scullery maid. Eventually she realises the error of her ways, returns, and marries her father. And they live happily ever after, until they die.

I think I’d like to make some stop-motion animations of these stories. I’m certain this will already have been done so well that I’ve decided not to check. I want a direct, personal reaction.

I salvaged this from a book about to be burned. It was to be burned because it was (among other books) blamed for the collapse of a marriage. I found an unspeakable aptness in this paragraph, given the context. I intend to integrate it into the contractual agreement when I initiate my next relationship. I just need some of these leadership advocates, they sound great.

But the evidence is inconclusive…