This is the web site of Barney Livingston.

"Barney is in the same boat as our servicemen in Iraq."
Quote from Google. Inspired by Googlism.

Home This page!	Computer Page Where I put things to do with my computermachine hobby.	Photography Page Here you can see several photographs that I have taken.	WorldWideWeb Page My collection of links to various interesting parts of the web.	Contact Page If you should need to send me words, this page is for you.	Everything Else Page Everything which doesn't fit goes here. Like my web-based things.

My favourite musical artists
according to last.fm

13/08/2007

Ten years ago today I received my first e-mail. To mark the occasion I've resurrected the front page of my original website which first went up a couple of months later in October 1997. It is very of-its-time looking, gifs everywhere and starry background because I could. Practically no animation though, I did have some taste. The links to other pages have been removed because they were either much to irrelevant now or much to cringe-worthy. It was originally designed for a browser window taller than it is wide, like a piece of a4 paper, because that was the consensus among the Acorn browsers at the time.
Back to the present, where's the new site?? It's not far from readiness, I just keep starting to add extra features and getting distracted by other projects, PhDs and stuff. So still soonish.

04/12/2006

Coming Soonish:

(Seriously this time)

28/07/2006

Due to lack of updates this is now officially a cobwebsite. I'm still intending to do a nifty tagging CMS thing. Now possibly using Ruby on Rails. I must try harder.

12/01/2006

OK, ignore all that stuff I said last time about wheels. I decided the best way to write my gallery for Drupal was to start from scratch and then integrate it later. So I started work on a gallery which incorporates tagging in a kind of Flickr/del.icio.us way and also helps with managing the many photos on my computers. Then, around the same time I realised that Drupal is much too complicated and messy for my purposes, it occurred to me that this nice photo tagging gallery I'm working on could be adapted to function also as a nice content tagging CMS thing. So, keep watching this space...
In the meantime take a look at my photos on Flickr.

18/07/2005

It's been a while, but now it's time for some site updates. I've moved hosting to Mythic Beasts and modified the site to work there. Some stuff that's been in the pipeline has now surfaced: my computer hardware collection page, and EXIF info from some of the photos. The much under-used forum has been discontinued.
I'm developing a new site based on the Drupal CMS. This will allow me to easily add content without having to fiddle around with code. I had for a long time considered writing a kind of CMS myself, but decided that there are better projects I could spend my time on rather than reinventing a very frequently reinvented wheel. I considered several different CMSs, but decided that Drupal best fits my needs. It is written in PHP and is highly modular in design, so it should be fairly easy for me to add to it as I need. I am in the process of making it work the way I want and converting the scripts on this site to work with it. I still need to make a gallery that fits my needs. Watch this space....

26/07/2004

Saw this defaced ride in the local Sainsbury's. Sorry about the poor photo, it was taken with my rubbish phone camera.

20/07/2004

Re-drew the icons using Inkscape, which is a nice vector graphics program. Added the icon for the Contact Page and added the page. Added the What's Here bit to the front page. Improved The Stochastic Times. Now each headline has a unique code which is linked to from the RSS feed. Maybe now somebody will write a story?

30/05/2004

w00t!!1! This is just too delicious. It seems that the representatives of a certain Purple Dinosaur decided they'd like to steal the domain barney.co.uk from six year old Barney Loosemore. They didn't count on Barney's dad being a proper "old school netizen"... Needless to say, the complaint was thrown out by Nominet. A shiny day for Barneys everywhere! - The report in NTK. - The Nominet complaint.

16/04/2004

This site has been around for more than a year and it has only just acquired a links page...

13/04/2004

Changed site for European software patent protest. New link colour, what do you think?

09/10/2003

Two new galleries comprising 55 pictures on the Photography Page. Photos from my recent trip to Barcelona and from the Brighton Pride parade in August.

12/09/2003

Fixed a bug in The Stochastic Times which stopped the picture search from working.

10/08/2003

The Photography Page now includes a randomly selected picture from each gallery. Also, there is now a picture viewing page which allows you to flick through the full size photos.

09/07/2003

The barnoid.org.uk domain has moved servers, so things now work better. Also, there is now a Forum where you can leave comments or discuss things.

24/04/2003

New gallery on the Photography Page. My pictures of Brighton's West Pier, probably the world's most jinxed pier.

16/03/2003

Introducing The Stochastic Times, for all your random news requirements. If you like the headline, you can submit an article. There is even an rss feed.

14/03/2003

No updates for a while due to University workload, but that is all over now... for five weeks anyway.

22/01/2003

The icons jiggle about! Had to convert them all to GIFs from PNGs because internet explorer is broken.

21/01/2003

The Photography Page is up and running. It is not complete, but it works. It is the only page approaching workingness so far.