wow. we did it. we built and launched it on time. to the minute, as they walked off stage…

It finally (soft/beta) launched with a couple of “people of fame” (Orlando Bloom and Kate Bosworth). After years of planning, we ended up getting the funding “weeks” ago and built everything online in 4 weeks from scratch.

http://www.global-cool.com/

So, the 20 hour days will now cease and my time will now be occupied with marginally less (or more) busy days dealing with the ongoing development of the project.

A huge thanks to everyone on the web development team, who have proved (again) that we can actually achieve impossible tasks.

Special thank you to;

Diggory, Chris, Joel, Francis, Anna, Andy, Andrew, Peter, Enrico, AdrianP, Phil, LeeA, Joanna, Gage, LeeM, Rakesh, Matt, Dan, PaulH, PaulM, David, Richard, John, Athol, Steve, Ashley, Marc, Ben, Tom, Chris, Tara, Laura, Fahaad, AdrianH, Matt, MySociety.org (Pledgebank.com), VTR, Jerelang, Makeni, Counting Thoughts.

I’m absolutely delighted that we’ve been able to implement Creative Commons and GPL licensing as a core part of the project, integrate with Pledgebank (which is superb!)

I’ve got the responsibility of being “head of internet” which seems to translate into more and more every time, so if you have any ideas about what you think we should add, tell me.

I want to build this into The Place where you manage your carbon lifestyle and make a difference to the world.

I’ll write up some more about *how the hell we did that* soon … but first, sleep….

Oh, but did I mention we launched in English and Japanese?

We had a power outage in our area today, taking out our office… (following on from yesterday’s outage in Marylebone that took out Level3 in the UK – in the USA MySpace was also taken out by the heat – this is a little concerning!).

One fascinating thing though – the temperature graphs on our servers show a rapid rise from the stable air-con’d temperature leading up to the outage. This would imply that there was a localised temperature increase in the area that all the local air-con units would be trying to deal with, leading to a spike in consumption, causing the outage….

So, now, if we were to gets feed of all the servers globally into a central DB, we’d have temperature data… then tie it to google maps with a temp scale on each data centre/city (normalising out the mean temp. maintained by the co-lo’s).

An amazing spot of blue in a hot dry landscape – Qatar.

finally got around to watching the insane, dangerously irresponsible video that is “they call it polution we call it life”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGKvDNdJNA

the mind boggles (and it’s real http://www.cei.org/pages/co2.cfm)

More depressingly, they are advocating a level ignorance that I think is criminal.

This guy even seems proud to be listed as ‘ one of six “Misleaders” on global warming ‘

Random conversations are great.

I’ve been looking at mappings between cosmology and ‘other things’ for several years now. Recent conversations keep orbiting links between psychology, music, perception, spirituality and cosmology …

So I was delighted to see at least one example of cross-over research between MRI scanning and CMBR analysis here;

http://www.nserc.gc.ca/news/stories/041006-2_e.htm

Haven’t found the follow up links yet, but would be fascinating to see the results of a pathalogical or psychological analysis of the Universe using the CMBR treated as an MRI scan…

Interesting event today at http://www.interdependenceday.co.uk/ the Royal Geographic Society. The only thing missing from the site (and the RGS site!) is the address … so here’s a link to find it.