When I first moved to the neighbourhood where I now live, way back in in the dawn of the 1970s, it was one of the few neighbourhoods in Trinidad — perhaps, when I come to think of it, the only neighbourhood — where Halloween was widely observed. I have no idea why this is. This [...]
Malcolm Gladwell, writing today on his blog: I think that misunderstanding over degree of difficulty issues is one of the major reasons for conflict between insiders and outsiders. We bridle at the school teacher who asks for a raise, because we don’t realize–and we can never realize unless we’ve been a teacher ourselves–how hard being [...]
Thank you, dear Jamrock, for reminding us that our own parliament doesn’t hold the monopoly on ridiculousness. Via Ria Bacon’s Stet blog, I learned of this photo, which was carried on the front page of the Jamaica Observer on October 18. It’s a close-up of the hands of Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller as she [...]
I wore black today too. And all day I’ve been running a fever, on account, I assume, of the yellow fever shot I had yesterday.
As you probably know, Global Voices receives the bulk of its funding from Reuters. In return, Global Voices attempts to add value to Reuters’s offerings by participating in events like the Reuters Newsmaker series. Global Voices plays a couple of different roles in the Newsmaker events. GV offers Reuters a “reblog” feed (aggregated feed of [...]
Just watched the nail-biting finish to the Champions Trophy match between the West Indies and India. My team is still capable of making me so happy sometimes. Technorati Tags: cricket, champions trophy, west indies, india
They already never call — just wait till they read this. (Forgive me — I’m not having a very good morning).
- In today’s Trinidad Express, BC Pires talks with artist Steve Ouditt about the festivals of Divali and Eid-Ul-Fitr in the Trinidadian context. – Guadeloupean saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart’s MySpace page. His latest album, Soné Ka-La, gorgeously synthesises Guadeloupean gwoka and all that jazz (full-length music samples are available at MySpace). And while we’re on the [...]
Today, in a fine article by my Ukrainian colleague Veronica Khoklova over at Global Voices, I come across this: This must be a bit of an exaggeration – even though some of the 300,000-plus Russian users’ accounts will surely land in Trinidad & Tobago’s blogosphere, as a result of the ongoing virtual exodus flash mob: [...]
- The music video for Jamaican artist Gyptian’s “Beautiful Lady” is one of the Editor’s Picks today at video-sharing site Revver. Interesting that VP Records is using Revver . . . The piece is packed with ads, of course. – Reporters Sans Frontières has released a new report on the Internet in Cuba. – “Bird [...]
2005 — a good year for Strepsils?I think I may be coming down with something. Saying as much this afternoon to Nikipedia, the latter delved into one of the drawers of his filing cabinet and fished out a box of Strepsils. “Aren’t Strepsils supposed to be translucent?” I said, examining the orange Mentos lookalikes embedded [...]
The most surprising inclusion on this list, at number 100, is the search engine Google. Mr Weich insisted it was not a joke. “Many of the curators we speak to have mentioned the potential of [the photo-sharing site] Flickr as a viable exhibition area – that in a few years from now they’ll be curating [...]
The process of packing for a trip expands to fill the time Georgia has available.
I suspect there may be some concern out there that CFR is turning into a satellite of Global Voices, but I’m afraid tonight isn’t going to be the night I disabuse you of that notion. GV, you see, has been conducting a reader survey that I’ve been meaning to mention here in the longest while. [...]
Nikipedia is convinced this ad, which appeared in yesterday’s newspapers, was designed by a PNM double-agent! See his comment and cheeky annotations to the image on my Flickr page. (For those lucky souls who happen to be unfamiliar with Trinidad & Tobago politics: PNM = ruling party; UNC = opposition). Technorati Tags: trinidad+tobago, politics, advertising, [...]
It’s hard to believe it’s already been a whole year that I’ve been associated with Global Voices. The actual anniversary of my début there is October 14, but weekdays being what they are, yesterday I decided to devote some of my Sunday slack to writing a thank-you note to my GV colleagues. As linking — [...]
It you find I’m quoting my friend Jeremy Taylor a lot lately, it’s because the man just cracks me up. Yesterday he took on British senior government minister Jack Straw, who just last week called on Muslim women to lift their veils as a way of facilitating social integration: So there is Jack Straw, a [...]
This album is powered by BubbleShare – Add to my blog It’s 245am, and I’ve just spent ages captioning and then re-captioning the photos in the slide show above (so the text would fit), so I hope you’ll forgive me if, in lieu of writing an account of my visit to the event pictured above, [...]
Casino Morale: They took away Lotto. Then they gave it back. (For five years, at least). Manning and his bunch fail to realise that addition — not subtraction — may be the key. This is the man, after all, who talked a couple of years back about wanting to clean up Carnival by stopping people [...]
“Can anyone explain to me why getting a passport to travel with is such a big deal for Americans? Is it that they are by definition so trustworthy, honest and virtuous that they don’t need to comply with international norms? (Like observing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, paying dues to the UN, joining the International Criminal [...]