Category: Design

It had to be this way… Biblical
Before I became a digital Soldier, I was already what is called a truther, which was the precursor of a conspiracy theorist. My main enemy remains the same, anyone who would harm children. It’s really that simple and one concept that all humanity can agree on.

Never thought I would be classified as a conservative because I believe in personal freedom and liberty. I am of the belief that everyone is entitled to their own “Pursuit of Happiness”, whatever that may be, as long as it does not infringe on the freedom of another individual.

Children are sacred, my personal belief in Jesus makes this one thing very clear, crimes against children can NOT and will NOT be tolerated, or ignored.

When you search the 5,000 plus Q Posts for the word; Biblical, you’ll find nine posts, one of which I posted (below). In the context of faith in general, the Q posts make it very clear the importance of foundational belief in God. Biblical understanding is woven in to the Q Posts, as we are in a war against dark forces.

Q Post 4550 – Biblical
```
Fear not.
You [we] are not helpless.
Enough must see. 
It is the only way.
You are being presented with the gift of vision.
Ability to see [clearly] what they've hid from you for so long [illumination].
Their deception [dark actions] on full display.
People are waking up in mass.
People are no longer blind.
Do you think it's a coincidence they banned and prevent you attending Church _house of worship? 
Anti-American.
Anti-God.
One must only look to see.
Have faith in Humanity.
Have faith in yourself.
Let light guide you.
Find peace through prayer.
Biblical. 
Q
```
If you search the Q Drops for the term “Armor of God” you will find over a dozen posts. This is because the nature of evil is so far from our imaginations could comprehend, that we need to be prepared. And we must not live in fear, but rather grounded and ready by our faith and trust in the plan.

Believe in Jesus and do what Jesus would do and that is put an end to any crimes against children that you are in the power of putting an end to it. We are living in Biblical times, rejoice!
October 6, 2022
Ice Banc to Make Earth Great Again

The Ice Banc Idea

To be our brothers brother, not our brothers keeper, we must design a better business model

The bread of life is brotherly love. We need an online system to empower people to help their fellow man. A simple online collaboration platform that shares the global wealth, by connecting rich and poor to form a pair. Each pay a monthly Ice Banc fee to maintain the account, we then grow value on the Blockchain.

The Ice Banc idea is to harness the innovation of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) on Blockchain, by match-making poor to rich and increase the value of the pair. To build an ID blockchain and Trust Anchor into a Digital Bank for “We the People” all over the world.

Enhancing the value of each identity pair by Blockchain Node Staking and Mining

Success is lifting one person from poverty, to collateralize the value of every Digital ID on our Blockchain. Building one pair at a time with quantum encryption, creating a shared common purpose and mission.

Objective: Design a business model that uses smart math to collaborate and grow profits collectively. A simple plan to grow two by two, similar to a managed buy sell trade, of a private placement platform. Borrowing the idea from fractional reserve banking, similar to how money is created today.

Collective Digital ID Bank

The mission is to make earth great again, to create an Ice Banc for Self-Sovereign ID. The idea is that each new client is staked a bar of gold, to remain in the program until their account reaches maturity. New members from third world are given new mobile phone, digital wallet for SSI and to receive universal basic income, to pay account maintenance fee and phone service.

Ice Banc is a vault to store the gold bars, until each client finishes their agreement. The collective leverages the value from the store of frozen assets, while we pay the clients to remain with their gold on ice.

November 22, 2021
Vortex Math and Tesla 369 Code

Vortex math is a system of numbers which explains the essence of form as a sphere with a vortex. The numbers reveal a spiral line and a curved plane. The numbers in this spiral line describe the form of a vortex, the vortex describes an inward contraction with its equal expansion which is the inner form of a torus.

The numbers 1, 2,4,5,7 represent the physical world while the 3 6 9 represent the divine realm of the physical world. The physical world is influenced by the spiritual world and thus mastering the secrets in the Tesla 3 6 9 code is key to controlling the events in the physical universe.

To understand the vortex math theory and begin to visualize the torus or the flower of life, this unlocks new ways of thinking and opens up entirely new ideas. Everything is light and frequency, therefore as other people have been able to conceptualize it using numbers and math, we can too.

The more we learn, the more we are capable of learning. Reminds of the quote, as you illuminate the dark, thereby do you also increase the circumference of the surrounding darkness. Or rather; only by exploring new ideas can we determine what it is we don’t know.

By <a href=”//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tomruen” title=”User:Tomruen”>Tomruen</a> – <span class=”int-own-work” lang=”en”>Own work</span>, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

March 8, 2021
Ecological, Sustainable Scanian Design Homes
Typical Scanian coastline at the southern peak of Ven island in Øresund.

Illustrating the human scale and natural organic materials of the ultimate of Scanian (south Sweden) vernacular architecture: Skånelängan.
Traditional half-timbered farm house of the southern plains in Scania.
Scanian design
Scanian design
Scanian design
Scanian design
You don’t need to read Swedish to understand these. The perfectly modular housing of Swedish 16th-21st centuries. Ecological, sustainable.

Scania (Swedish: Skåne (Swedish: [ˈskôːnɛ] (listen)), is the southernmost province (landskap) of Sweden. Within Scania, there are 33 municipalities that are autonomous within the Scania Regional Council. Scania’s largest city is Malmö, which is also the third largest in Sweden, as well as the fifth largest in Scandinavia.

To the north, Scania borders the provinces of Halland and Småland, to the northeast Blekinge, to the east and south the Baltic Sea, and to the west Öresund. Since 2000, a road and railway bridge, the Öresund Bridge, bridges the Sound to Denmark. Scania is part of the transnational Øresund Region.

From north to south Scania is around 130 km and covers less than 3% of Sweden’s total area. The population of over 1,320,000 represents 13% of the country’s population. With 121 inh/km² Scania is the second most densely populated province of Sweden.

Historically, Scania was part of the kingdom of Denmark, up until the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. Denmark regained control of the province during the Scanian War 1676–1679 and again briefly in 1711. Scania was formally included in Sweden in 1720.

The idea for this post came from a very interesting Twitter channel called Wrath of Gnon. Illustrations courtesy of Wrath of Gnon
October 10, 2020
What I learned at WordCamp

WordPress Rocks! and WordCamp is as much knowledge and information as can be consumed in a single day, when it comes to learning about WordPress and web publishing.

What I learned at WordCamp was profound, that really it’s about the written word and spinning a yarn, then publishing it. The technology is now so incredible, for developing the most amazing communication platform ever. Blocks are here now and Plugins for everything.

WordPress and it’s Plugins dominate the world wide web development and web site design

Among the mistakes that I learned in WordCamp that I’ve been making, is to assume that I knew what content would build an audience online. Truth dictates that blogging about the daily life will have an audience, over time. The key is consistency, same as writing well, it takes discipline and also “getting over” what anyone else might think about what you write.

The key to blogging is to blog, so it’s so important to stand in your own authority, as an authentic but flawed human, and tell the story of what the world looks like, from your perspective. Realize though, that your voice needs to be either motivational, or inspiring, since there’s no audience for negativity (well, not in my way of thinking).

Other simple things I learned, like not to have an “About” link but rather an immediate and clear call to action, with explanation of why a person should respond to your. That is if you’re offering a service or selling a product but mostly what I’m referring to here is the pure art of blogging.

When I started this blog in 2004 it was as a corporate style of message, these ideas came from designing websites, for small businesses, starting back in the 1990’s. I had never shed those basic but wrong ideas.

The best thing I learned at WordCamp is that there’s legions of bright, enthusiastic experts, in every single niche of every aspect for both web design and development, not to mention writing and creative, insanely talented graphic artists can create wild designs that can be turned into awesome websites.

The future is ours with WordPress and the web! Ideas can reach the entire planet, lifting the masses with our good news.

WordCamp Photo by Jake Noren on Unsplash Ostrich Image by Stefan Zier from Pixabay

September 28, 2019
Raincity WordCamp, Vancouver 2019
Did I say how much I love WordPress? And how excited I am to go to WordCamp? A web geek at heart and incredibly excited to go to this event, first time in my life I’m happy to go to a camp of any kind but today I was walking around the UBC campus (in downtown Vancouver) where they will host WordCamp Vancouver 2019 and can’t wait to attend.

To help plan for WordCamp Vancouver 2019, here’s what sessions there are to attend this year. They’ve created five categories and placed each session into at least one category. The Categories are:
- Development
- Development (Advanced)
- Design
- Business
- Blogging / Site Owning
They will have the following poster up at registration and in front of each room to help you decide what topics would be beneficial to you. You can also scroll past it to see some suggested itineraries for each category.

A reminder but these are just suggestions you are free to attend any session you’d like at WordCamp Vancouver and we encourage you to try attending topics you’re unfamiliar with to learn something new!

Development

9:00AM
Beyond the Block: Creating Blocks with ACF & Integrating Page Builders with Gutenberg

10:00AM
Let’s Learn Git. No More Excuses OR Digital Wheelchair Ramps: Tools for making your website ADA Compliant (Demo)

11:00AM
The Layman’s Guide to Optimizing Your WordPress Website

1:00PM
Having Fun (But Not Too Much Fun) with Viewport Units

2:00PM
Introduction to WP-CLI OR Design Principles for Web Developers: How to Make Your Websites Look Good

3:15PM
How We Can Make Our Website More Fun and Engaging by Learning from Game Design Techniques OR Using Hooks in the Real World

4:15PM
Tempted by the Dark Side OR WordPress Security

4:50PM
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here

Development (Advanced)

9:00AM
Business, Development sessions or networking!

10:00AM
Blok Bilding Basiks 4 Basik Blok Bilding

11:00AM
Migrating, Converting, and Managing Blocks in PHP

1:00PM
Everything I Wish I Knew Before Using WordPress as a Headless CMS

2:00PM
Business, Development, Design, Blogging/Site Owning sessions or networking!

3:15PM
WordPress, the Automated Way

4:15PM
Development, Design, Blogging/Site Owning sessions or networking!

4:50PM
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here

Design

9:00AM
Business, Development sessions or networking!

10:00AM
Digital Wheelchair Ramps: Tools for making your website ADA Compliant (Demo)

11:00AM
Business, Development sessions or networking!

1:00PM
Having Fun (But Not Too Much Fun) with Viewport Units OR How To Design WordPress Themes To Increase Sales and Convert Visitors Into Customers

2:00PM
Design Principles for Web Developers: How to Make Your Websites Look Good

3:15PM
How We Can Make Our Website More Fun and Engaging by Learning from Game Design Techniques

4:15PM
Tempted by the Dark Side

4:50PM
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here

Business

9:00AM
Understanding Your Customer Using Personas and Empathy Maps OR Freelance Hacks!

10:00AM
Design, Development sessions or networking!

11:00AM
Blogging/Site Owning, Development sessions or networking!

1:00PM
How To Design WordPress Themes To Increase Sales and Convert Visitors Into Customers

2:00PM
SEO for WordPress: It Ain’t Yoast

3:15PM
Design, Development sessions or networking!

4:15PM
Blogging/Site Owning, Design, Development sessions or networking!

4:50PM
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here

Blogging / Site Owning

9:00AM
Business, Development sessions or networking!

10:00AM
Design, Development sessions or networking!

11:00AM
Keeping Your Content Accessible OR The Layman’s Guide to Optimizing Your WordPress Website

1:00PM
Design, Development, Business sessions or networking!

2:00PM
SEO for WordPress: It Ain’t Yoast

3:15PM
Design, Development sessions or networking!

4:15PM
How to Blog About Anything and Get a Million Views – It’s Never Too Late To Start A WordPress Blog

4:50PM
Closing Keynote: Where We Go From Here
September 25, 2019
Nautors Swan

Dreams of sailing on a Nautors Swan

This year is the 40th year anniversary for the greatest sailboat builder, the legendary Nautor Swan of Finland.

For Nautor’s Swan, 48 is a magic number. One of the most iconic Swans ever was born in 1971 under this number: the mythical Swan 48. Designed by the best yacht designer of that time, indeed one of the best of all times, Sparkman & Stephens of New York, this iconic yacht won some of the most prestigious offshore races, like the Bermuda Race and Transatlantic Race and achieving selection for the Admiral’s Cup – the “Formula One” race series of that time.

However, racing was not the main purpose of the boat: like any Swan, she was born to be a perfect family cruiser, capable of sailing around the world in total safety and comfort. Quoting from the original brochure: “With many international races behind her – the Swan 48 is keeping up an irresistible challenge as top class ocean racer. With the speed of a bird of prey she combines the luxury and grace which make her the swift, smooth-going Swan of tomorrow.

The Swan 48 is equipped to the highest professional standards and the woodwork has the class given it by the Nautor specialists, men who have learnt their crafts around the Gulf of Bothnia, where woodwork and shipbuilding skills are traditional. The unique design and professional skills behind the Swan 48 make her the complete ocean cruising racer.” To prove this, 46 units were sold during five years of production.

Following the same principles, in 1995 Germán Frers designed a new Swan 48 with the same level of grace and performance as the original one: another shining success, with 57 yachts built, now becoming beloved and highly regarded yachts on the brokerage market.

Today, almost forty years after the original one, it’s time for another mythical Swan 48…

September 15, 2019
Giancarlo Zema Design Group and Bermuda

Once upon a time I was the Bahama Out Islands webmaster, until the Ministry of Tourism amalgamated that site, which I had archived, with thousands of photos sent by the resort owners. As there were, at that time in the 90’s about 72 Resorts, Hotels, Motels and Guest Houses listed on the website, from about a dozen different islands of the Bahamas.

While I lived in South Florida for over a dozen years I was able to visit some of the Bahamas and several Caribbean islands, also having been addicted to Earnest Hemmingway I was always attracted to the Keys, the sea and the islands of the Caribbean. Bermuda and Bahamas are not in the Caribbean Sea, which often comes as a surprise to people.

Always wanted to see Bermuda, nor have I been to Turks and Caicos, which I often gripe should have been a Canadian protectorate, as Canada helped build T&C but in the 50’s our leadership voted against adopting T&C into Canada – sad day in my opinion. However, Bermuda is unique and the most separate from the Caribbean

Giancarlo Zema Design Group

Recently projects in Turks and Caicos have been going through my inbox and perhaps the most exciting project since the Roaring Thunder Resort and Casino on Victoria Falls in Tanzania (a story for another day), is the combo Eco-resort and Agriplex in Bermuda with collaboration of the super cool Italian genius of the Giancarlo Zema Design Team to work with Ninurta Enterprises and Rosario de Medici to incorporate scientific agriculture, vertical gardening and aquaculture in an ultimate sea meets land eco resort.

The Agriplex sustainable vertical garden with aquaculture for food production will help to make Bermuda food-secure and self-sustaining, plus ecologically low-impact but economically big impact because people are going to want to experience living in a garden and eating from what is grown all around you. It just makes sense that Bermuda would be the first place we create this magical combo of farming and tourism.

Bermuda roofline Photo credit: Šarūnas Burdulis on VisualHunt.com / CC BY-SA Photo credit: BTO – Official on Visual hunt / CC BY

August 20, 2019
FormStack for Data Management

Form follows…..?

FormStack is the best solution I’ve seen for designing and creating amazing looking and working website forms. You know I’m a full-blown geek to be excited about something so potentially boring to you, as an online 3rd party system for creating website data input forms but data is key so you have to have this task perfected.

I’ve been using Aweber for almost ten years and they hosted a webinar with FormStack marketing folks, which was excellent, otherwise I would never have heard about FormStack but I’m glad I did because I’ve already started using their great platform and it works flawlessly and so easy to make changes to the setting or to design new landing page forms.

It doesn’t stop with FormStack and Aweber… you can add webmerge and follow documents through the entire process, start to finish, with multiple collaborators. These tools redefine what a small company can achieve from the data input, in a systems that makes it easy to manage each and every step it’s possible to complete a contractual process, completely online.

My only complaint is that it’s that it’s expensive to have the best document automation available, so you can patch things together yourself, or add one of the many plugins available on WordPress, or use the WP Form that’s built into wordpress but you won’t end-up with such superior looking documents, plus you won’t be able to show your clients and subscribers that you’re using exceptionally safe software and systems to handle their data.

Here’s a New Form for Lions Gate Self-Sovereign ID News

Powered by Formstack

FormStack Photo credit: s2art on Visual Hunt / CC BY-SA

August 9, 2019
Living the life of a Creator

Being a creator sounds so God-like, of course I want to be a creator. Ever since I first saw the Interwebs I wanted to create some and there only ever been one way to learn how. Then Youtube became the craze, now the norm and 7 years ago I embarked on video creation. This is my calling, I love it! Please consider making a contribution and Become a Patron!

A Course in Miracles, of which I am a student, suggests that teaching and learning are the same thing, plus that everyone has a ministry to manage, whether you want to look at it that way, or use that term, the point I’m making is that for me to help make the world a better place, I have to make myself better and bring my best. I overcame my apathy, now I want to create.

My writing has been getting more fluid and natural, I’m beginning to enjoy reading some of what I write. My objective with this blog was to write every day, no-matter how bad or boring because I can come back later (often do). The first key to writing is to write.

They teach that you should write what you know about, so I often talk about my past, which benefits in my own atonement, also an ACIM concept and the underlying truth in happiness is connected to forgiveness, therefore we can release self-grievances by confessing something in writing and then forgive yourself. Hope I don’t offend anyone with my candor but it’s all part of a process.

I’ve become very dedicate to spiritual practice and ask for my daily bread, which in a metaphorical manner was an awesome synchronicity today, that in a video I produced today, when I was closing the dialog remembered to mention that Great Britain had a new prime minister, whom I like, named Boris Johnson, or BoJo as we all know. Anyway, I said “congratulations, please lead us to the promised land (meaning Brexit) but those words came out of my mouth.

About an hour later I was reading a brilliant, formerly unpublished manuscript, actually the memoirs of Dr. Nicolas Kimaze and he made a statement that Lebanon is mentioned 71 times in the Bible and in modern history how desecrated it had been and then this wonderful bread crumb….

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalm 92:12 King James Version (KJV)

Living the life of a Creator, an online content creator, it’s not quite as heavenly as it sounds because it takes so long to learn how to do technical things and in order to get good we must first suck and someone like you has to endure our bad creation. The encouragement of someone reading and liking something is incredible and when someone becomes a patron it’s like you’ve won an Academy Award.

Today I became an official content creator at Patreon.

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Living the life of a Creator Photo credit: rhett maxwell on Visualhunt.com / CC BY

July 26, 2019