Anyone who has contributed to Amarok at any time should feel free to wander
these halls at leisure. Visitors are also welcome, but please remember that the posts here
are rendered somewhat out of context - to get the full picture, you probably need to subscribe.
So what's this place about?
Essentially it's dedicated to the members of
Amarok - The Mike Oldfield Mailing List
who have risen at times to poetry, poignancy, humour and grace. Posts to mailing
lists frequently just gather cyber-dust on hard drives - but some of these posts
deserved better. So some posts have been illustrated and turned into Web pages.
There are other diversions as well - like companion pieces to Mike's works - and there
will be lot's more to come..
Time is sort of irrelevant, too - so posts are accompanied by the
Mikey CD they principally concern - which makes Wolf's Hergest Ridge Cafe an Oldfieldopolis, of sorts.
Eventually, I'm hoping that the entire site will be navigable via an Oldfieldopolis key, that might
look something like this:
In general, the graphics are by wolf, unless otherwise credited. The Sphere above,
for
example is by Kazuo Fujitsuka, of Japan - thanks, Kazuo!
For future graphics contributions, there's
a place to store graphics files and even MP3s over at
e-groups When you get there, you'll want to join Amarok2. It's easy
to join - you don't even have to receive e-mails (they can be read at the site) and joining gives you access
to some of the gorgeous graphics that Amarokers have created in the past. Amarok2 also functions as an Emergency Broadcast Channel
in case the main list server goes down - which, like a hurricane in Hampshire, hardly ever happens, it must be said.
Meanwhile, here at the virtual Ridge, we're growing and morphing all the time - so come on along for the ride,
and come back and visit often. You never know, you might find your name - and your posts - up in lights!
Please don't be afraid to use the guest books. I actually hate that term - I'd rather call them Discussion Pages. In any case, to write on the walls just push the big yellow button that says "view/sign guestbook". People have been complimentary in the past,
but feel free to make suggestions, nominate things you'd like to see or hear here (here, here!), tell a joke, or start some dialogue. It's always nice
to know that you called by, even if you don't feel you have a lot to say.
If you want to write to me direct, go here.
on with the show!
wolf
20th February, 2001
Card Comp 2000
Phil Bendall's Mike Oldfield Christmas Compilation!
Santa's Little Helpers - Last year's Christmas wishes from Amarokers everywhere...
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