Good to see you again. Glad you enjoy the Limes.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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
When I first left home, six years ago, I was resolved not to come back. Why should I? Trinidad, I declared, held nothing but bacchanal and botheration. I felt stifled there, and bored. I didn’t fit in. I needed to leave. So I left, and like so many other West Indians abroad, discovered that I [...]
“Each misspelled word, bad apostrophe, garbled grammatical construction, weird cutline and mislabeled map erodes public confidence in a newspaper’s ability to get anything right” – from a 1998 study commissioned by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, via Poynter Online Correct me if I’m wrong, but as far as I am aware, none of the [...]