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Jan
28
Update on Upgrade
January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
“Don’t worry” seems to have been somewhat optimistic.
The blog is working again, but here’s the thing:Â the upgrade failed.
I shall try again, so be warned. This blog may go down before I’m finished.
In the meantime, why don’t you share in the excitement by going to http://www.wordpress.org and browsing around a little?
Cheers.
Jan
28
Time for some maintenance
January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
on the blog, not on myself.
And I know I haven’t updated for some time. Busy, busy, busy. Please don’t be concerned if you come here and you can’t get on the site. Wordpress has released a new upgrade, and I’ll be working with it later today. Don’t worry — [...]
Jan
21
Ideas and comments from around The Bahamas on culture
January 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
… and Junkanoo:
Ian Strachan on culture
Mr. Smith: When you wrote “God’s Angry Babies” which was very sympathetic to the illegal immigrant population, my information now is the significant amount of sympathy that was there before has been some what eroded by the new image of the new illegal migrant. Any impact from that group on [...]
Jan
20
Lynn on being an artist on the plantation
January 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Lynn Sweeting writes a wonderful post on art and the artist in a tourist economy.
Some of you may be wondering why I called it the plantation. If you have, you’re new to this blog, and you certainly haven’t heard of Ian Strachan’s book, Paradise and Plantation: Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean. [...]
Jan
17
What culture’s good for — in real terms
January 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Now this is a radical idea.
All of sub-Saharan Africa receives just over $1 billion per year from the US in economic aid. If everyone in the United States gave up one soft drink a month we could double our current aid to Africa. If everyone gave up one movie a year we could double our [...]
Jan
16
The danger of anchor properties
January 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Chris Lowe on Weblog Bahamas makes a point that’s been concerning me for a while. The thing about the islands in which the anchor properties are going to be located is that there’s going to be a radical change in the way in which people live. To wit:
The thing is that within their [...]
Jan
16
The complex law about trademarks, globalized
January 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I found this story very interesting in my browsing this morning. In short, it’s the account of the tricky law of trademarking, as practised in South Korea, and it affects everybody’s favourite coffee chain, Starbucks.
It interests me on two sides of the coin. First, the explication of Korean law is instructive. Second, [...]
Jan
15
Martin Luther King Day
January 15, 2007 | 1 Comment
That’s today.
This is what the Writer’s Almanac has to say:
It’s the birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (books by this author) born in Atlanta (1929). It was 1955, early in King’s new tenure as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, that Rosa Parks refused to give up her [...]
Jan
15
Barbados Tourism Ad
January 15, 2007 | 2 Comments
Why am I posting a Bajan tourism ad, you wonder? Why should I?
Well, because sometimes it’s good to know what the competition’s saying.
And sometimes it’s good to know that the competition’s aiming its ads straight at you.
Let me know what you think.
Jan
14
More on Junkanoo
January 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Here.