While we were preparing for our Phnom Penh meeting, another online crew over at Girls With Macs were voting on Cambodia alumni Michaela‘s T-Shirt Design. She’s running a marathon to raise money for Mit Samlanh and has raised nearly $1000 via her blog! (Not too late to donate!)
BarCamp was lots of fun, and Thomas did a short video summary of it:
(Thankfully he missed my Kung-Fu demonstration.)
Posts and photos and tweets are trickling in, I’ll keep bookmarking stuff here: http://delicious.com/slugdog/barcamppp
Sept. 22: (Phnom Penh Post)script: ‘Cloggers’ Find New Ways To Exchange Ideas On Technology
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Kill Your Email
You will need Flash for this. The presentation is really a ‘teaser’ to get Cambodian techies (most are quite literate in English) to check out the Inbox Zero series and related ideas. For BarCampPhnomPenh.
Linkage: http://delicious.com/slugdog/emailninja
BarCamp Phnom Penh updates: http://www.technorati.com/tag/barcamppp
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I missed The Messenger Band at Meta-House, but Andy Brouwer didn’t.
They’ve now released an (internet only?) song that talks about the growing issue of evictions in Cambodia, at http://saveboeungkak.wordpress.com.
My two cents? It may well be too late to ‘save’ the lake, but maybe the residents can still try to get some decent compensation.
For the record, I’m not one much for activist songs, but in Cambodia, this is a rarity. Speech about issues is much more charged and controversial in Khmer. As for the English/French press? That’s just a tiny minority of foreigners. Donors do read it though, so it’s good to pay it lip service.
Above: Kung Nei (of Dey Krahom, also affected by evictions) does that thing he does best. Don’t miss it. http://www.youtube.com/user/themessengerband
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Remember kids, there’s meat, and then there’s HAM. Cambodia is not the easiest place to keep kosher or halal. It seems like there is no Khmer dish that can’t be improved without a little pork – even coffee.
Photo Wednesday picture from Pencil Supermarket, Phnom Penh, Norodom Boulevard. One of the reasons I carry a phone cam is for those: ‘Holy (sliced) cow!’ moments.
The image of an animal willingly serving itself up to be eaten is more commonplace than you might think, according a to Flickr group devoted to this curious phenomenon.
“The first photo in the pool isn’t exactly what i’m going for, but if you know it you know it…i remember it from BBQ places in the South…but for all i know it may be international…” Oh yes, it is.
More: http://www.flickr.com/groups/cut-me-wicked-servant
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agmilmoe/sets/72157594356771968/
Cheers to Boing Boing for flagging this phenom. Tags: cambodia,meatporn,khmer,ham,beef,signs,advertising
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Several weeks ago I was excited to hear this had arrived: Cambodia’s most respected dictionary, as a searchable Khmer Unicode program. Produced by Open Institute and organized by the Buddhist Institute, this brings new readers to an old classic. I was pipped at the post (literally) by dead tree blog Phnom Penh Post, which managed to get an article out first. http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2008081521224/National-news/Computerising-Chuon-Nath.html
The software is now widely available on Khmer Unicode CDs that come with a keyboard purchase, which was a pleasant surprise for me to see yesterday. Hooray! Hardcore scholars may want to wait until version 1.0 has been reviewed and upgraded – as with any initial software release, there are always some things to tweak.
Buddhist scholar Chuon Nath wrote the dictionary as one of his many scholarly efforts. That it’s stood the test of time both reflects on the level of scholarship in Cambodia and the change that this country has encountered since its publication.
Discussion:
http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/node/2781
Download:
http://www.budinst.gov.kh/files/software/The_Khmer_Dictionary_of_the_Buddhist_Institute_Pack.rar
Thanks to Leang Chumsoben for the tipoff.
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