We watched in horror as our neighbour’s SUV was pushed down the road by the flood. Having seen this kind of thing on screens before, witnessing it so close was a different matter entirely. There’s an instinct some people have to stick their hand into a burning flame to save a grain of rice. It’s […]
Where everybody knows your name
Like most Trinbagonians, I’ve learned to dread going in to any licensing office. Who could forget the signage up at the Wrightson Road office that said, “We’re closing at 1:00 today” – when you’ve turned up at 12:45, and the people you need have gone to lunch? And then, the game of ping-pong, between the […]
Dirt. Mud. Progress.
Jesus was born in a manger, so I cannot be too sour that to register the birth of my child I have to stand up under a tent in the rain. So, under that tent, ducking the wet seats, were a few parents. The instructions we received were to book an appointment at the agla.gov.tt […]
GitHub Copilot: A young Jarvis?
I recently watched yet another time travel TV series on Netflix. This time out of South Korea. I forgot the name, so in looking it up I realized that time-travel K-dramas are very much a thing, lol. Anyway, it’s called, “Sisyphus: The Myth”. It comes to mind because the writers of the show were fond […]
#MSBuild 2021 Table Talk: How it went
In a recent post I mentioned moderating a table talk at this year’s MSBuild along with Erik Kleefeldt. By design, it’s meant to be like a hallway chat with a bunch of people about tech we’ve been using/playing with/excited about. This hallway was huge. 318 people turned up on Teams to talk about extending it […]
In media res
Taking a break from an experiment about streams in Teams
A quick take on a hot mess
I saw that response from Dona Sarkar, who I’m following on Twitter. Since I’ve been following her, from what she shares I could have guessed her response. Dona leads advocacy on Microsoft’s Power Platform, while also running her own fashion house – PrimaDonaStudios. My own first response was, “wow, talk about a horrible take”. Dude’s […]
#MSBuild 2021: Teams Table Talk
Co-hosting a table talk with Erik Kleefeldt about Microsoft Teams in MSBuild 2021
Birbicam.
When I posted that video on IG, I knew I wanted to come back to it. My mechanics of capturing that story was a bit precarious: I propped my phone up on a rock, and hoped that in the video being captured, a bird or two would feature before I ran out of space. Who's […]
In the forest, the poui falls different
I leaned on a tree after my seventh rope, it felt like. I was good and proper bun.Then the neighbourhood watch appeared. A beetle here, some ants that clearly grew up on cassava and two wasps. I had to get up.I put my hand on a tree to stabilize and a member of the bush […]
Irwin Williams: Periodicals 