Communicating in a networked world
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 help since arriving here. By 7:15 am I left the … [Continue reading]
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 make up the bulk of the population in this small … [Continue reading]
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 up-to-date registration list, and felt someone tapping my … [Continue reading]
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 counter and I am at AirJaldi-minus-one right … [Continue reading]
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 American expression from Hippie days meaning "unwanted … [Continue reading]