Archive for May, 2011
Vanuatu Applauds Call for ‘Government Intelligence’
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011[Originally published on sathed.vu - Vanuatu's Satire website] Police Commissioner Joshua Bong’s call for improved government intelligence was roundly supported by all sectors of Vanuatu Society. The announcement, made at the closing of a recent security conference, met with enthusiastic responses from everyone this writer interviewed. A survey of 100 people asking the question ‘Do [...]
Canonical is Failing
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011A word of advice to FOSS geeks: If you must recommend Ubuntu Linux to others, recommend nothing later than 10.04, the last LTS release. 10.10 saw a number of minor but irritating bugs creep in that show a significant shortage of testing and forethought. There were countless small things like context menus no longer working [...]
The Powerful and the Good
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011[This review of Wan Smolbag Theatre's new play, Zero Balans was written for the Vanuatu Daily Post.] Zero Balans, the new play from Wan Smolbag Theatre, seems to argue that you can be powerful and you can be good, but you can’t be both at once. This political morality tale recounts the story of Ezekiel. [...]