A word of advice: don’t try to buy a domain and web hosting from BlueHost from Egypt with a French credit card. That is, unless you enjoy being lectured about “country mismatches” and treated like a common criminal. Since emerging from the Yotel two Saturdays ago, I spent three days in Barcelona (about which more [...]
(9:52pm Barcelona time) Pictured above, my cabin in the Yotel at Gatwick airport, and also the reason I still feel vaguely human after having spent most of last night on a plane and been shaken out of REM sleep at the equivalent of 2am Trinidad time to disembark. I knew nothing of the Yotel’s existence [...]
So the new cabinet has been announced (congrats to Campaign41 for getting the information online in record time, ie yesterday afternoon). A few of the appointments make me downright queasy and I have to admit that I’m tired of men like Manning boasting about how many appointments he’s given to women, as though this is [...]
Who told The World‘s Marco Werman he could talk to 3Canal?? That’s what I get, I suppose, for letting my house band travel without me. Kidding, of course. 3Canal can talk with whoever they wish, as long as they don’t stop talking to me. Which, incidentally, they should be doing tomorrow. Stay tuned for CFR [...]
A person I know called a while ago to enquire about the mood in the neighbourhood following the results of yesterday’s election. I told him it was hard to tell, as this isn’t the kind of area where you necessarily know what’s going on behind closed doors. We went on to discuss why Prime Minister [...]
Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, has just announced another round of microgrant funding for citizen media outreach projects. Receive up to US$5,000 for projects designed to teach citizen media skills to “communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take advantage of tools like blogging, video-blogging, and podcasting on their own”. Read [...]
It turns out that 12pm was the perfect time to go and cast one’s vote at polling station 0136 (known as the Diego Martin Junior Secondary School when it’s not election day). A parking spot awaited me in the schoolyard, in the shade of a mango tree, and apart from a handful of voters and [...]