From the monthly archives:

January 2007

Update on Upgrade

28 January 2007

“Don’t worry” seems to have been somewhat optimistic.
The blog is working again, but here’s the thing:  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.

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Time for some maintenance

28 January 2007

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 — [...]

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Ideas and comments from around The Bahamas on culture

21 January 2007

… 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 [...]

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Lynn on being an artist on the plantation

20 January 2007

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. [...]

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What culture’s good for — in real terms

17 January 2007

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 [...]

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The danger of anchor properties

16 January 2007

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 [...]

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The complex law about trademarks, globalized

16 January 2007

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, [...]

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Martin Luther King Day

15 January 2007

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 [...]

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Barbados Tourism Ad

15 January 2007

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.

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More on Junkanoo

14 January 2007

Here.

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