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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Expat Guilt

29-Jan-08

I’ve been grappling with the reality of moving back to Trinidad, and of giving up everything I’ve built up over the past six years. My employers are unimpressed, and are making me offers no sane career minded individuals ought to refuse. And at the other end, the Trinidadian end, the powers that be seem to [...]

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Thoughts on .tt

23-Jan-08

Why are .tt domains so expensive? According to the breakdown over at ttnic, theliminghouse.tt would cost USD $500 upront, and then an additional USD $500 every five years, from the third year after registration. And that’s if it were registered from a local (i.e. Trinbagonian) address; applications from a foreign address would cost twice that. [...]

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Social Fora Fatigue

22-Jan-08

The World Social Forum is coming, and already I’ve had to politely decline Facebook invitations to participate and/or care in some way. There. I’ve said it. I don’t care about the World Social Forum, which purports to be: an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of [...]

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