The Hot Potato
Nobody wants to be the last one holding the hot potato when the time is over; that’s kinda how I feel about electronic waste. E-waste is a really, really big problem. There is a village in China, for example, where people crouch over fires of melting electronic components (mobile phones, motherboards, wires, CRT monitors, etc). [...]
Digital Dark Age
I just saw an article in Science Daily which talks about a “Digital Dark Age.” The introduction sums up the idea: “What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer’s hard drive?” The article mentions 8-inch floppy disks as an example. [...]
A Language Older Than Words
In May I read Derrick Jensen’s A Language Older Than Words… “Every morning when I wake up I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam.” Although I know the feeling, I have no interest in being a writer and I don’t know the first thing about bombs; I’m not sure where [...]
Lover of Linux, death metal and Indian food, blogs about living and working in Nairobi, Kenya.