Tim O'Reilly put out a blog on Sunday that I really identify with. Being in the technology field, we're expected to constantly be keeping up with technological and business trends in the field. While I do keep up with technology, I've stuck to some
I've been following the Nigerian film scene for a few years now and have had the pleasure (or displeasure) of watching a few Nigerian films. They are notoriously low-budget and poorly acted, but they are incredibly interesting for what one Ghanian lady described to me as showing the
The past is the future. Everyone borrows from everyone else in the digital age - especially pertaining to digital music. DJ Spooky describes how Jamaican and Caribbean culture was one of the originators of mashpup culture. Very interesting. See also "Upgrading Jamaica's Cultural Shareware: Trojan Records at
I read a great article by Tim O'Reilly where he describes the next revolution in manufacturing - you. You have to buy or subscribe to read the article, but what he's basically describing are individuals that create their own designs and have a workshop or mini
I really need to work on my mixing skills!! As in bringing in the songs on time and smoothly. I totally have to go back and redo some of my gear. I'm getting better I think - you can let me know. I just love the song selection
Business 2.0 has an interesting "web 3.0" article. The semantic web is around the corner, according to Radar Network's Nova Spivack. What's interesting is that Radar has some working software right now. It's just a matter of decorating existing information
SableCC 4, an elegant java parser generator, was released sometime last week. The software as well as the website and collaboration tools have been updated. The new features are listed here. I'm looking forward to zero lookahead parsing so I don't have to append the annoying
The recent movie "A Might Heart" is about Daniel Pearl and his wife Marianne's ordeal in Afghanistan. Now, I didn't really pay attention or know this until an article pointed it out to me. Danny Pearl's wife is black... well mixed race.
Or that's what American linguist Dan Everett is posing. He has spent a few decades living with and researching Piraha, a group of people indigenous to the Amazon rain forests. He first went down as a missionary, trying to convert the people by translating the bible into their
Oye people, I've always sang and made music but never really thought to take it seriously until now. Those mixes I post are just me sort of bedroom DJing, but I also sing - more soulful stuff. Anyways, here are the lyrics of the first 2 full songs
I love how marketing and hype in the tech industry take what's a normal API, function, etc, and transform it into the wizard behind the curtain. I can remember working on the laszlo platform (before it was openlaszlo) and making asynchronous http calls with XML. About 2 years
This is a great video of Chomsky and Foucault discussing the nature of Justice and Freedom. The coercive power of the State is also discussed. Also, in "On Vision" Chomsky outlines 4 main forms of state organisation and their opportunities for human and individual freedom. As I'