I chose to ignore the call for "staff" to appear at 6:30am to begin set-up and from now on considered myself only a "guest" at this event. Even though in my way I've been doing everything I could to … [Read more...]

Many of my readers will be familiar with this - but I wanted to mention it for those to whom it's new. McLeod Ganj (in upper Dharamsala) is an area where the old and the new meet. Tibetan refugees … [Read more...]

So I was at the registration booth on Temple Road, kind of squatting down holding my computer on my lap, and fully connected to the "mesh" network so I could pick up email and then create an … [Read more...]

Yeah, OK, I guess I have to re-set my counter. (Today is Saturday.) I was counting on AirJaldi beginning on Monday, but officially it looks like it starts Sunday. That's tomorrow. So let's re-set my … [Read more...]

And it is raining. After a big thunderstorm last night, with high winds, and brief electrical outages, it is settling down to a steady (but light) rain here in Dharamsala. I am crashing (an … [Read more...]