Around the Bulgarian town of Pernik, there is a scheme where travellers can stay with villagers in their homes. This is an excellent idea, rather like a homestay, but from my experience I would advise anyone who uses this service to eat plenty of food before being entertained by some of those locals… In […]
Mr One Dollar
The sun was setting as the Iran Air Jumbo Jet taxied gently down the runway of Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates. I admired the view of Dubai’s modern architecture as we took off into the clear sky over the Persian Gulf and banked eastwards. I was flying to Tehran a day ahead […]
Best. Band. Ever. (?)
The following is an excerpt from Chuck Klosterman (he of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs fame)’s latest, Killing Yourself to Live. I finished the book at 30,000 feet, somewhere over Oklahoma. It was excellent. This passage in particular piqued my interest (read, I believe, over Death Valley, appropriately enough), as it proffers his theory that […]
Open Source Transparency — The End of FUD
Open Source Transparency: The End of FUD Dan Kusnetzky, EVP Marketing Strategy and Paul Sterne, CFO An Open-Xchange Position Paper This position paper will address the question, "Can the open source approach to software development promote transparency and remove FUD — fear, uncertainty, and doubt?" By requiring that the source code is freely available to […]
Citizens on the March for Democracy– From Nepotism to News
Tuesday America ventured out in what election-activist groups say was “the most heavily watched election in history,” with volunteer lawyer battalions and an arsenal of media contacts, corruption databases and documentation systems at the ready. As voter watchdog groups stood guard, the Sunlight Foundation and its contributors determined exactly how Congress members dipped into their […]