Archive for March, 2007

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

The Wire: I love this show!

About one year ago, my brother gave the DVD of the first season of The Wire, an HBO television drama series about police and crime in Baltimore, Maryland. Since then, I have purchased Seasons 2 and 3, and this weekend, I just finished watching Season 3. The Wire is simply fantastic. It develops the stories […]

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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Coltrane, Ballet, Honesty and the Freedom of Limits

On the flight returning to Madrid over Christmas, I was browsing my iPod in search of something to accompany my travels. I finally decided upon the album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane. The balance was perfect — light and playful at times and bold and experimental at others. Upon hearing the Duke’s classical […]

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Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Real and Personal Property and Possession

My boss, Martin Varsavsky, wrote a post today on how his computer just crashed. He went on to explain how the loss of his computer wasn’t such a crisis because all of his important “things” were stored externally from his PC in web-based services and applications. These “things” included his photos, emails, word documents, […]

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Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Come to Safe Democracy’s International Conference on March 10th!

The Safe Democracy Foundation, co-organizer of the International Summit on Terrorism, Democracy and Security in March of 2005 and host of the Atocha Workshop 11-M, (founded by Martin Varsavsky and managed by Joaquin Mirkin) have brought together a diverse group of academics and experts from all over the world to meet Saturday, March 10th, in […]

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Friday, March 2nd, 2007

In my Dreamland

When I was a kid, I used to love the song “Dreamland” by Bunny Wailer from his album Blackheart Man. On days like today, I can hear his voice calling out from a far, “There’s a place that I have heard about, so far across the sea …” And in my mind, I can […]

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