Keith's Cloud

The workspace of Keith Hayward
https://kh-cloud.org.uk )
Contact: 01252-514421 0776-295-0000

The other half of this partnership, Christine Hayward, has her own website
https://poemsong.co.uk )

The headings here are:
Horticulture, Atheism/Humanism, Artificial intelligence, Family History, Linux Computing.

Horticulture

Websites

Canna catalogue: https://hartcanna.co.uk
Canna National Collection: https://www.canna-collection.org.uk/
Canna Virus Disease: https://canna-virus.org.uk/
Plastic planters catalogue: https://hartcanna.com
Cannifer Ltd https://Cannifer.co.uk

Lectures:

"Glorious Cannas" All about cannas: history, botany, types, cultivation, etc.
"Taking a Stand" Behind the scenes at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
"Hunting for wild cannas in Argentina" A slideshow of our visits to Argentina and Bolivia in search of canna species.

"Our World Of Cannas" Covering our various canna interests: Nursery, National Collection, Exhibiting, Visits to South America etc.

"Entertainment on a horticultural theme" Christine only: Songs, poems, readings, general chit chat. Suitable for club annual dinners, Xmas parties etc.

Atheism, Agnosticism, Humanism

My Lectures and/or publications

"What's The Big Idea: Our Human Language" The thing that most separates us from other animals.
Lecture for Guildford Humanists (note, Guildford Humanists has now ceased operating), Farnham Humanists.

"Faith, Belief and Certainty" The basis of belief.
Lecture and booklet for Guildford Humanists.

"The life of Charles Bradlaugh" Victorian atheist and founder of the National Secular Society.
Lecture delivered to 5 Humanists groups, some by Zoom.

"The story of Annie Darwin" The death of Charles Darwin's daughter at age 10 which marked his departure from religion, and his ceasing to attend church.
Lecture for Farnham Humanists.
https://kh-cloud.org.uk/annied.html
Published in "Humanistically Speaking" March 2024.
https://www.humanisticallyspeaking.org/post/a-dear-and-good-child-the-story-of-annie-elizabeth-darwin

"Charles Darwin and Charles Bradlaugh Compared" Both were Victorian radicals. Darwin was from a well-to-do family, and left the fighting to to others. Bradlaugh was born into poverty, and was a street fighter.
https://kh-cloud.org.uk/Darandbrad.html

"Freemasonry" A massive secret society in our midst
A lecture for Farnham Humanists

"Freemasonry and Humanism Compared"
Webpage
https://kh-cloud.org.uk/freemasonry.pdf

"Freemasonry and humanism compared"
Published in: "Humanistically Speaking" February 2024
https://www.humanisticallyspeaking.org/post/freemasonry-and-humanism-compared

"Entertainment on a Humanist theme" Songs, poems & chat. Christine only

"Dare to be a Bradlaugh" The song, Duet by Christine & Keith

Definitions:

Atheism: There are thousands of religions in the world. All have been created by human beings and therefore all are works of fiction.
Agnosticism: Nobody knows whether there is a God or not. Science has no convincing answer to what caused the existence of the universe.
Humanism: A reliance on science and reason rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world. Humanists tend to advocate for human rights, free speech, progressive policies, and democracy. People with a humanist worldview maintain religion is not a precondition of morality, and object to excessive religious entanglement with education and the state.

Websites:

Farnham Humanists
https://farnham.humanist.org.uk

Dorset Humanists
https://dorset.humanist.org.uk/wp/

Humanistically Speaking
https://www.humanisticallyspeaking.org

The Freethinker
https://freethinker.co.uk/

Artificial Intelligence

The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
webpage https://kh-cloud.org.uk/evolution-of-ai.html

After Humanity, the future of Artificial Intelligence
Published in: "Humanistically Speaking" November 2023
https://www.humanisticallyspeaking.org/post/after-humanity-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence

Abiogenesis: The creation of life from non-living matter https://kh-cloud.org.uk/abiogenesis.html

Family history
Joseph Hayward https://joseph-hayward.org.uk

Linux Computing

It's surprising that Microsoft (MS) Windows Operating system is so popular when Linux is available. The reason can only be the aggressive commercial practices of MS during the early days of the development of the PC computer.
MS Windows is expensive, vulnerable to computer visuses, difficult to understand, and having paid for the use of it (without ever owning it), the user is then subject to continuous irritating invasions by marketing and advertising interruptions. The computer code of MS Windows is a trade secret; you might use it, but you never know the detail of what is in it. Also, it succeeds in giving the appearance of being quite disorganised, as though the system files, data files, software etc have all just been thrown into a box and mixed up.
Linux is free, logically organised, relatively easy to understand, and inherently resistant to computer viruses. It is extremely powerful. There are no trade secrets: the computer code of Linux is published for anyone to see.
Anything Microsoft can do, Linux can do, and often does better. Professional computing organisations, universities, etc usually use Linux not Microsoft. The Internet largely runs on Linux. The Android smartphone operating sysyem is a version of Linux.
We use Ubuntu, a UK Distribution "Distro" of Linux. The latest edition is published every six months, and is free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu/