the centre:MK (erstwhile Shopping Building) could shortly be in line for a grade II* listing which would prevent unsavoury (ok bias immediately present there) additions and changes to the central shopping precinct in the city. Some may say this all started the moment doors were put on the place; but its real degredation really begin with Midsummer Place, an extraordinarily ordinary building plonked next to the original 1970s Miesian building.

Unfortunately even the building’s management have described it in less than savoury terms, presumably because they want to be able to hack it about within an inch of its life to add more shops to the building and further the break-up of the orthogonal grid in Central Milton Keynes by closing the Secklow Gate flyover. This is the only flyover in Central Milton Keynes (and indeed most of MK, apart from the few junctions on the A5D and of course the M1) compared to other new-towns such as Peterborough and Runcorn that are full of high speed grade seperated junctions and flyovers.

Of course, much a-do about this listing has caught the interest of the Conservative leaning papers. I’ll bear my political clothes here but I am right leaning myself; but then I don’t have much time for politicians full stop but that’s another matter.

Between comments of ‘surrounded by concrete flyovers’ and ‘concrete eyesores’ – it doesn’t take much to work out what the papers think. They live seemingly in the romantic vision of England loved by Prince Charles and his somewhat disturbing Poundbury. Compared to most shopping centres in England, the centre:MK has is bursting with natural light, intricate but seemingly simple detail, elegant loading and unloading for deliveries (at first floor level hence the Secklow Gate flyover), the amazing steel-work and glass cladding and extensive interior planting that is by no means an after thought. Of course there was Queens Court at one time, but now that public space is being overturned into privatised space; squeeze the pounds out of every square foot is the mantra of business at the end of the day.

Maybe what they should be thinking of is building a counterweight. It’s no big secret the only reason the shopping building is the complete opposite end to the station of the 2km long city centre is because they had to guarantee that the project wouldn’t be cut down in size and trashed by short-sighted British incompetence. (And yes it is incompetence, short-term quick buck making for people who largely couldn’t give a toss.) And it worked as CMK now exists in its fully intended size but it needs an injection of life into the western end; so why not push the boat out architecturally and create a counterweight to the the centre:mk away from the heavily loaded eastern end?

There is plenty of room (because the designers thought about the future!) to do this if they had the vision but that doesn’t seem to have ever figured in the imagination.

You only have to see Midsummer Place (the extension built in the late 90s, opened in 2000 I think) is an alright looking thing but no work of art and certainly pretty run of the mill. The Shopping Building however is far from this uninspired building.

The book “The Story of the Original CMK” may be a little too rose tinted but it does deliver on 120 pages worth of excellent material the scale and sense of vision those guys had, if a bit naive – they created in part due to that what we see today. What we will create afterwards will likely as always be run by bean-counters but will be a watered down piss poor architectural tour-de-force in butchery.

Of The Times excelled themselves, take a look at this rather grotty picture of Central Milton Keynes:

It does look pretty rank from that photo, but there’s a small problem here given it is an article about The Shopping Building.

What’s the problem?

That picture DOES NOT CONTAIN any view of the shopping building!

 

I leave the final sentiment to Derek Walker, the shopping building should never have had bloody doors fitted on it. And the moment that happened, public space became private space…

• The Telegraph : Characterless Milton Keynes shopping zone at centre of culture clash
• The Times: English Heritage in move to save ‘concrete eyesores’ (you may note though I don’t disagree with them over Brum library but I never liked brutalist architecture)

I haven’t written anything here for ages have I!

I guess I have been so busy enjoying the world.

In fact I cannot write a great deal now but only to say that I am hoping to get started on scanning in my North Downs Way slides this weekend. It will take me some weeks yet as there are about 500 or so to get through although I have already marked off the winners from looking at them projected.

I just cannot believe it is already four months since I took the first step on that 160 mile hike across the South East of England.

I’m already looking back on it with melancholic whimsy of , “what I did then. That was the day!” And I realise, that we all do this, looking back on a time when we did some when we were free and the memory paints it with warmer tones and it was just fantastic. Almost an American Beauty moment of looking back on the job flipping Burgers in the summer or being asked how you feel, and when you look back on it all. We all have those moments and they seem to stop at some point. Trapped in the wildfire of bills and general working life, and families and so forth. It seems apparent to me to never stop having little adventures; after all, why stop if you’re still free? It makes looking back not so painful when you are absolute in the knowledge that you can still strike out and do your own thing to this very day.

I don’t know what I’m going to do next year. Maybe Southern France, maybe/probably the Cotswolds Way, maybe the USA again – I’m just not sure. Just so much to do in such a short amount of time it seems. There’s so much to see and do, breathe and live! I’m glad I made it through the shit-storm I found myself in 2006 and moved on from all the crap that got towed out of that year; life is a much better sweeter thing. I’m not rich, I scrabble to pay bills, my socks now have holes and the hoovering needs to be done; but I couldn’t be happier with my lot and it’s not much but it keeps me content

This virus has been widely spread these days and it has become very common that every pen drive we use will be infected by this virus. This Recycler virus / BV:AutoRun-G[Worm] is very annoying one and even formatting the pen drive will not remove the virus. Though antivirus software is able to identify, it cannot remove the virus completely. If you delete this manually, it will again create itself and none of the virus removal tricks could work to resolve the problem.

• Download Flash Disinfector and save on some non windows drive.
• Double click on it and it will ask you to insert USB flash drive and click ok. Do so.

• Clicking on ok will make your desktop go blank, don’t worry, its normal.
• It will fix the autorun.inf virus and you are done partially. Yes, its a partial solution, it will lock the autorun file and you will see some file created by flash disinfector. If you remove the file, the virus get re activated. May be some future update of our antivirus software’s will have complete fix for this.

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1.Symptoms of infection:

Hard disk autoplay
msconfig  disabled
Hidden files and folders disabled .

2.W32/Autorun Worm:

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3.Autorun Virus Removal method 1:

The autorun virus can be removed both manually and by using any autorun virus removal tool. The manual removal time of the virus depends on the intensity of the attachment of the virus to the system. To remove the virus manually, you need to:

1. Kill the autorun process through Task Manager.
2. Boot the system in safe mode and open the command prompt.
3. List all system and .exe files on the C drive (or your OS drive).
4. Disable hidden, system, and read only attributes for autorun.inf and ntdelect.com (not ntdetect.com)
5. Delete both the files.
6. Repeat these steps for all the drives on your computer.
7. Search for kavo.exe in C:\windows\system32\ and delete it.
8. Open registry editor and delete all the entries of kavo.exe under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE

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Autorun Virus Removal method 2:

1.Get autorun virus removal tool here


2.Now Press Win+R and enter cmd open Windows command prompt .
Now we are about to list hard disk files from command prompt .
for C drive type dir c:\ /a/w

If Autorun virus is present , It will get listed as shown above . There would be many other files like onlinegames , kavo.exe,.vbs , Heap41a , newfolder.exe,.com, ppt.exe etc .
These files include read only, archive, system and hidden file attributes associated with them.
So in next step we will remove these restrictions from the above suspicious files .
attrib -s -h -r c:\autorun.inf
or attrib -s -h -r c:\autorun.vbs ( Change the hard disk partitions as required)
Now remove all those files associated with autorun virus using del instruction .
Del autorun.inf or Del kavo.exe ( repeat the procedure for all the files and hard drives )
Or you can automate the process by notepad

 dir c:\ /a/w
attrib -s -h -r c:\autorun.inf
del autorun.inf

dir d:\ /a/w
attrib -s -h -r d:\autorun.inf
del autorun.inf

dir e:\ /a/w
attrib -s -h -r d:\autorun.inf
del autorun.inf

(Add the necessary hard disk partitions and files as per requirement ). Now copy the completed document in notepad and save as remove.bat . This file will remove all the autorun virus traces on execution .

After removing all the infected autorun virus files from hard drives , execute autorun virus removal tool on step 1 to remove further traces .

3. Repair registry to enable hidden files and folders .

Press Win+R and enter regedit . Now this will open the Windows registry . Move on to the following registration entries .

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Explorer>Advanced>Folder>Hidden>SHOWALL

Autorun virus usually alter this registration entry . Double click on CheckedValue and enter value data as 1 .  Now you would be able to enable hidden files and folders .

4. Turn off autorun feature in Windows .

This will avoid the execution of existing autorun worms in a PC and also one on USBs and CDs .

Copy the following command in notepad and save as removeautorun.reg

REGEDIT5
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@=”@SYS:DoesNotExist”

5. Restart your PC for the complete removal of Autorun virus .

Now almost all antivirus softwares like Kaspersky , Norton , NOD32 will remove autorun virus species. So keep your antivirus updated .

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