Monthly Archives: November 2008

links for 2008-11-25

Global Voices Online » Trinidad & Tobago: Belt-Tightening (tags: trinidad+tobago trinidad politics economics blogging citizenmedia citizenjournalism)

November Moon

It was only after reading the comment Renata left at Flickr that it occurred to me to look into the science behind why I felt compelled to take a photo of the full moon last night: at this time of year (though more so in October) the moon is at its perigee, or closest approach [...]

St. Christopher’s Rally, 1953

It’s been a while since I posted something from the family photo archives. An aunt in Canada recently sent my mother this 1953 photo take at the annual car rally held on or around its eponymous saint‘s feast day (July 25) by the St. Christopher’s Anglican Church in Siparia, Trinidad. My mother recalls that the [...]

links for 2008-11-08

Newseum | Today's Front Pages | Archive | Gallery View Gallery of newspaper front pages announcing the Obama win. (tags: newspapers media newsmedia obama)

Free radio

“So long as we can call (sic) get fired, Radio will never be free.” So went the anonymous e-mail message I received last night. Did the sender of this message so desperately need to vent his/her feelings about Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s visit to radio station 94.1 FM that any Trinidad and Tobago-identified entity with [...]

links for 2008-11-07

Project Lingua – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia entry for Global Voices Lingua translation project (tags: translation globalvoices wikipedia)

Farewell, Byron Lee

Byron Lee (27 June 1935 – 4 November 2008) (image from Africasounds.com)