Everything is Everything

I’m a big critic of most of the changes coming in OsX Lion. Simplicity comes at a price, and in this case the Mac App Store thrusts control of a huge part of the computer/internet universe directly into Apple’s controlling hands. We have the opportunity to empower new computer users with an advanced understanding, but…

Seriously, the USA needs to step back and breathe. From Hudson Hub Times via Boing Boing: A man in Hudson, Ohio called the police to report a suspicious package on his doorstep. When the officer arrived, he noticed the “AMAZON.COM” printing on the box and asked if the man had recently ordered anything from Amazon:…

Check out what we’ve been up to in my recent post on the FilmAid blog, with photos! FilmAid Dadaab has begun production on a new public service film, “Not Me But The Law,” and the first week of production has been a blast! Not Me But The Law, written and directed by Denis Otieno, is…

Dadaab is featured in the New York Times this morning! And I thought the world wasn’t listening… Sadly, this overly sterile, vaguely concerned, intellectual blurb doesn’t do the camp much justice. What I wonder is whether the reporter has any idea how things are or was toured around a sanitized part of the camp. It’s…

I visited the heart of the Ifo camp in Dadaab yesterday and witnessed the conditions of the camp firsthand for the first time. I have lost my innocence. I wrote an essay about it but it will not be published on this blog. The world has to know, but not in this forum, at least…

I am not yet qualified to write this post. In five days I have seen and experienced so much and yet understand almost none of it. A state of shock (due to heat, culture, exhaustion, going off caffeine, and malaria pills) means that I don’t really know how I feel or what is going on…

It’s hard to take sides in the he-said-she-said technology wars when everyone has an interest at stake. Steve Jobs panned Flash and called it slow and buggy, which many of us dismissed at the time. On second thought, it’s completely true. Ars Technica has confirmed that running Flash can kill your battery up to 33%…

This post was from 10-30-2010…agh slow internet! Don’t go out in Nairobi for Halloween. Just don’t. The weekend began with the news that my Monday morning trip to Dadaab had been rescheduled to Wednesday. The UN and various organizations run these flights for their own missions, so we get on only when there is room…

I found this through Adam, from Michael Leddy’s blog, linked through Boing Boing. It’s a great set of hints for living gracefully and truthfully, in line with what matters to you, from a 72-year-old graphic designer. There was a long discussion in comments about the third piece of advice, “SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.”…