Posted in information technology, weblogs on May 12th, 2013
[Note: This is a 'placeholder' post until I have more time to web up my day-by-day notes.]
Mekong ICT Camp: this year's theme was 'Data Data' and held at the Srindhorn Environmental park in Cha-Am, Thailand. (Geeks at the beach!) I'd never expected to return and was gratified to share about ...
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I was tired. I was hungry. I had lots of other things to do.
But wild horses couldn’t have kept me away from this year’s FilmCamp.
Like the label says: it’s a meeting of film enthusiasts. In Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
I’d first encountered the organizers ‘Kon Khmer Koun Khmer’ at their amazing ‘Golden ...
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Some very brief tidbits from Cambodia's first TechCamp!
http://techcampphnompenh.wordpress.com
So pleased to see the Open Development Cambodia team 'walk their talk'! That's my team!
Above: US Ambassador Todd asked us to 'like' his Facebook page. (Not what I would ordinarily expect in a diplomatic intro. :D )
Yrs truly w/host (and blogger) Soma Norodom. ...
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Posted in literature on Mar 13th, 2013
Some of the pre-war covers in an earlier post were mis-attributed to Hul Sophon, who set me straight in an interview not too long ago.
http://jinja.apsara.org/2007/11/pulp-cambodia-novel-covers-hul-sophon/
He notes that both he and Uth Roeun had friendly competition with a locally based cover artist of Chinese background, called Ung Yuksuy. Little is known ...
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It's a very small world. It seems that where ever I go, Marin seems to turn up sooner or later.
I first met him during a brief stint grant-writing at United Cambodian Community in Long Beach. Years later, after I moved to Cambodia, we both ended up working in Siem Reap. ...
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