Open Zimbabwe?
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Open Patois, redux
I have now come to learn that all Jamaicans are multilingual, and while some may not speak patois, they all understand it. The switch back and forth between patios and standard English goes back to slavery days, when the slaves were not allowed to use their native language.The rebellion against that was that the slaves simply used English when they wanted to be understood and used patois ( which has English words thrown in here and there) so passing listeners might assume the language being spoken is English.
”farrina and dem plenty questions” meaning foreign people who ask a great deal of questions.
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Open Question Mark?
I have no idea what you're talking about... so here's a link.
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Open Landmark
17 July 2008
CIO News View: Telegraph CIO on swapping Google in for Microsoft
Martin Veitch
The Telegraph Media Group’s move to Google Apps could be a landmark
. . .
In an exclusive interview with CIO magazine, TMG CIO Paul Cheesbrough told us why. Here are the highlights:“We’ve got Office 2003, Windows XP and Exchange 2003 and we started to look at the refresh cycle at the beginning of this year. We had a decision to make as to whether to sign up for a three-year enterprise agreement with Microsoft or look at something else. [As a pilot] we put 10 per cent of our 1400 user seat estate and allowed them to use Google Apps alongside their Office and Exchange infrastructure. Overwhelmingly, the feedback was positive and there would have been uproar if we had said we were turning it off. We were faced with the decision of whether we pursued the same [Microsoft] path and paid the price for that or put more and more internal solutions in the cloud.
“We made a conscious decision not to refresh any of [the Microsoft infrastructure]. We’re not going to remove it but we won’t upgrade it. Some users might use Outlook as the client but we’re moving to migrate people from Outlook onto Google by the end of the year. We’re not going to rip and replace but we’ve decided not to refresh Office 2003 and we’ll sweat that asset. Google Apps is good enough and rich enough for us to do what we need to do. Collaboration has been very powerful [in Google Apps] and as people use Google Mail and Calendar they’ll naturally stray to use Google Docs.
BRAVO!
Observation: Once the PC=Microsoft paradigm is broken I foresee a very short delay before shifting to an open source desktop alternative. (Hint: Firefox runs just as well, if not better, in Linux!)
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Open Dream
"It is called the American Dream ... because you have to be asleep to believe it."
- George Carlin
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Open Note.to.self
(Note to self: must practice more waiting.)
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is
waiting.
-- Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"
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Open Blog Administrivia: Comments
I have returned to the practice of moderating comments as it appears they are being (unintentionally) misplaced.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Open Mugabe
Bob’s Your Uncle!
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Open Quandry: McBama or O'Cain?
A sign of our changing political landscape ... same as it ever was!
This is rapidly becoming a sad
state of affairs.
state of affairs.
I (probably) won't vote for John McCain.
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Open Grilled Snacks
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Open Economy of Protein
In keeping with my belief of "following the money" I read The Economist for much the same reason I read the WSJ. The article recently posted in The Economist brought to the fore my concern for the economy of protein.
Let them eat bugs
Jul 12th 2008
From Economist.com
. . .
Scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico have an answer: entomophagy, or dining on insects. They claim the practice is common in some 113 countries. Better yet, bugs provide more nutrients than beef or fish, gram for gram.
. . .
Coincidentally this dovetails with my long standing belief in the concept put forth by the sci-fi classic Soylent Green (cannibalism aside). As a world community we will have to use innovative means to address the issue of hunger.
Before the days of soaring fuel prices and the subsequent drain on grain reserves the long standing question was why we didn't just feed the hungry? Now that our abundance of food resources are being put into the gas tank even that simple answer has evaporated leaving only a lingering hydrocarbon foot print.
Having visited China (as just one example) and having seen first hand the entomological culinary delights I can make one observation. No matter how delightfully prepared or presented Americans will will not eat grasshoppers on a skewer. So then the next most reasonable course of action would be to 'process' this cost effective protein source into a more palatable dish.
In much the same way that we have accepted faux foods made of processed soy beans we must concentrate on producing acceptable food stuffs made of protein rich insects. Properly processed, spiced and packaged Hopper Patties come to mind. Grilled lightly and covered with a slice of American soy cheese on a toasted bun. Just think of the potential profit margin.
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