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One of the first things I did when starting BiNS was to look for a free forum hosting site. The one I found was a bit rubbish, but it was free and I was on the dole. It worked though, and there has been all manner of wit and not-so-wit on the forums over the last 6-or-so years. But as more of the site started to revolve around the blog, the forums got a bit sidetracked. So much so that I would only remember to pop in every couple of weeks. The original forums became the online equivalent of the Mercat pub — open all hours and nice, but intimidating. So, we’ve got some new ones that have RSS feeds, tags and the like — it’s the acceptable face of regeneration. These new ones are like the Mercat, after a lick of paint, some windows put in and adding some sodding futuristic beer availability notification system. The old forums and posts aren’t gone, they’re still online as an archive, but I’ve stopped all posting there. You have to register to post on the new BiNS Talk — but that happens automagically, you don’t have to wait to be approved. When...

It’s that time of next year again, when in a flagrant attempt to pay for all the incidental costs of B:iNS we unleash the Birmingham:It’s Not Shit Calendar on the suspecting public. It is, we’ve seen calendars in the shops. As always it features 13 shots of real Brum, with no spin and only a tiny few adjustments in Photoshop to try and make it look warm in the summer months (well did you try getting pictures of the sun this year?). While it isn’t all pretty, it at least isn’t 12 shots of canalside living. It includes, the beach under Spaghetti Junction, Mr Egg, The Pantomime Horse Grand National and you can see tiny versions of the inside pictures here. We’ve got two versions for sale from Lulu.com, a full height version at £12.99 (cover pictured) and a slightly cheaper folded version at £7.99. Both include all your Bank Holidays, as well as a few special B:iNS chosen dates and anniversaries. (There’s also one in our Cafepress shop might be cheaper with the dollar exchange rate being over 2-1, have a look see what you think. This one doesn’t have special dates, just normal holidays.) It’s a perfect...

We’ve moved

If you got a feed full of posts this morning, sorry – it was the upshot of moving B:iNS from one host to another more spangly one. It’s done now, I hope with a minimum of lost links (in fact there’s loads more links now as I imported the vast majority of “old news” items from pre-the blog – they’re not that interesting I don’ t think). The new site has a much more coherent look (still ironing out the kinks) and a new header. Hope you like it. Of course new graphics often mean new t-shirts.

since i’ve been away, you’ve been hanging on out

and might of missed these things: UK Transportation Chief rides a scooter, tells others to ride the bus Chineese – or American in this case – make Mullaney 2.0 seem a little more important than he is. Nice Lambretta, even tho I’m a Vespa man Nice new statalite pics on Windows Live Maps & Google Earth Birmingham: City of the Future Is it Rag Week? Video by Brum medical students that owes a huge debt to Telly Savalas, Monty Python, and er me if i do say so myself. without the irony. Brum notes The Guardian run a guide to Britain. We wrote the Brum bit – heavily edited as it was I’ll post the full version up here later.

JB Birmingham Street Atlas : Originally uploaded by bounder. Roads, like music, crystallize memories. Here are some roads that make me remember. Why not make your own ‘street atlas’? See it in all it’s glory here I’m not saying why, or where they are – you can guess if you like. They are all in Brum tho’, I had to make a cut off somewhere and it might leave room for a follow-up that isn’t just Brum. It was actually quite an emotional experience in a couple of places (not to mention dangerous when standing in the midlle of the Pershore Rd to get ‘just the right angle’). See it as a flickr set. It’d be great if people made their own and we eventually got a shot of every road in Birmingham!

panto horse grand national ’06 vids

having filmed our very own bounder romp home in a spectacular booby-prize-winning last place on horsey brummieoftheyear in 2005′s Pantomime Horse Grand National; we only went and forgot (doh) to film B:iNS rep for the 2006 race, Mick riding Airbiscuit, who left the competition standing and actually won the race (yay!). our 2005 vid: luckily, today we discovered that chrishamsandwich was up to job and has a couple of vids on youtube. chrishamsandwich’s 2006 vids: go airbiscuit!!!

network news

the stagemanaged “fight” between Brum and Manchester reaches a crescendo on Inside Out tonight on BBC ONE. What you won’t know – and might maybe care about – is that I’ll be on News 24 at around 12.30 tomorrow for a live interview all about it. Don’t go flippin’. UPDATE> and if i can get into town (three hours to get home!) for 9.20 tomorrow morning i’ll be on Breakfast News (bbc one i think)

B:iNS blog! read more & comment too!

we’ve just converted our news feed to a proper blog, which means that we should be able to rant more, say more and link more. if you’re a site visitor – great – you’ll find your way around i’m sure. if you use RSS you might want to change your feed reader to point to http://feeds.feedburner.com/birminghamiNS (i think it should redirect temporarily, but you don’t want to miss out on, erm, owt) the blog itself lives at http://blog.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk. come on in and comment, join us!

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