10 Years of Gadgets
Cleaning up my office for the move. Here are the mobile computing gadgets I’ve had since 98. I never know what to do with the old ones. Save ’em? Chuck ’em? Sell ’em? Give ’em away? Any suggestions?
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Help Chris Saad Design a Logo
Classic situation for Chris Saad. Read his blog below. Anyone want to help him design a new logo? While you’re at it, I’m still looking for a LOTU logo. I’m thinking I might copy someone’s logo, try to get a C&D myself. Looks like it’s a good way to get free publicity.
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G’Day World #315 – Maria Sipka, Linqia
A few weeks ago I was introduced to Aussie entrepreneur Maria Sipka (and her husband JC) over breakfast in Yarraville by Ryan Trainor (G’Day World #280). We had a great chat and a few days ago I chatted to her from her home in Barcelona. Maria has a fascinating story – born in Bratislava, Slovakia, immigrated to Australia when she was a child, in her early twenties she learned how to leverage lots of investment properties and then decided it wasn’t all about money and went on a search for a greater purpose. This has lead her to Barcelona and her new start-up, Linqia, a meta-search site for online communities and groups, which has just gone into public beta.
We talk about Linqia, “The Starfish And The Spider“, zen buddhism, her recent wedding in New Delhi (see above photo) and her motto that “The person you are in five years is determined by the books you read and the people you associate with”.
The music on this episode includes:
Black Violin
“Brandenburg” (mp3)
from “Black Violin”
(Di Versatile, Inc)
Buy at iTunes Music Store
More On This Album
Cowboy Elvis, Cowboy Elvis “The Bartender’s Song” (mp3)
from “Only the Lonely…”
(RecEDGe Records)
Fidel bias in the media – Example 1
The Herald Sun. Hardly the bastion of journalism, I know. And this editorial I link to below is a classic example of trashy media.
Just to correct some of their factual errors:
1. Castro was not a dictator by any definition.
2. Castro did not take the world ‘to the brink of nuclear war’ by defending his country with ballistic missiles. That is the right of any country. On the contrary – the United States’ attempt at an illegal invasion of Cuba took the world to the brink of nuclear war.
3. It wasn’t Castro’s actions that “condemned his people to almost Third World status”. It was the actions of the USA. Castro and Che didn’t nationalize American interests in Cuba until after the American government was trying to interfere in the government of the country (in an attempt to bring back to power their puppet Batista).
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The Fidel Debate Continues
A negatively-biased article about Castro in The New Statesman by Isabel Hilton has some interesting reader comments including this one below. It’s fascinating to watch the way the US press is carrying the news. I’ve been trying to read as much of it as I can to see if I can find many pieces which are even *slightly* positive about Castro’s contribution to the people of Cuba and Latin America, Africa, etc. I haven’t found any so far.
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