Wah we doing in JA in terms of TECHNOLOGY

Venezuela Promotes Microsoft Alternative
By JORGE RUEDA, Associated Press Writer Wed Mar 29, 7:11 PM ET

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez, long critical of big transnational companies, is promoting free open-source software as an alternative to market-dominating Microsoft Corp. Venezuela's science and technology ministry recently held the Latin American Free Software Installation Fair, an event promoting the use of the open-source Linux operating system and other nonproprietary programs over Microsoft's Windows. Groups of Linux users have been organizing similar events in other Latin American countries, including Argentina and Colombia, and the Venezuelan government has signed on as a promoter. The technology ministry said the fair is part Venezuela's move toward "technological sovereignty, and taking advantage of knowledge for building national scientific independence." Chavez, a vehement critic of the capitalist system, issued a decree in 2004 ordering all the country's public institutions to actively move toward open-source alternatives, hoping to save millions of dollars. Government agencies have gradually been making the change. Chavez says previous governments spent more on licensing fees for proprietary software than social programs to fight poverty. The Venezuelan government hasn't focused direct criticism on Microsoft, but Chavez has regularly condemned "the hegemony of the multinationals" — saying many big companies are to blame for putting profits above the needs of poor people across Latin America.

Yannick: Keeping it retro...

AND here for all my adoring fans (I wish!!!) we now present, Yannick Nesta Pessoa, the RETROSPECT... looking back almost 1/4 century at the young man who has grown up to forever alter the world and destiny of black people everywhere...


if you look hard enough at my pictures, you may be able to make out my halo... hahahhahahahahahahahaa

New Proverbs out of Montego Bay City

New Proverbs out of Montego Bay City, adding to the rich linguisic and folk culture of Jamaica...


"Idle dog f_ck John Crow"
~Anonymous
This I think means the same as "the devil finds work for idle hands"


"Pickney food share a grung"
~Paradise Acres
This I believe means the same as "spare the rod and spoil the child"

"Don't f_ck with the lightning"
~Paradise Acres
This means don't stir up my wrath

"Keep yuh d_ck up"
~Tickle Puss
The philosophical rant of a 90+ alcoholic, who patrol Paradise Acres

Flash slide of TNT

Take this here link, to go see A Flash Show of my pictures in Trinidad...

http://www.geocities.com/cyber_yan/tnt.html

THE THIRD WORLD "I-POD"

I found this funny, yet extremely serious... the beast them hog lots of technology and leave the third world to fantasize about it, owing to the fact that we have no resources to get them again owing to the fact that they raped, looted and plundered the third world for 400 years under colonial regimes and now under the sweat shop philosophy of GLOBALISATION

Short break from Trinidad

Here is a short break from Trinidad to give you all mine new reading list for 2006... letting all peep once again into the mind of soon to be 25 year old megalo/monomaniac...

1. The Satanic Verses

2. Midnights Children

3. The God of Small Things

4. Still Life with Woodpecker


My IPOD playlist:

1. Entire Junior Gong "Welcome to Jamrock" album
2. Bounty Killer "Ghetto Dictionary and The Art of War"
3. MoBay Local Artistes: KRAZY KRIS, MERRITOL FAMILY etc
4. Some TNT stuff: BUNJI GARLIN, PROPHET BENJAMIN, ISASHA etc

BEST PHOTO OF 2006 - LIVE from TRINIDAD

Now here is a picture that is worth a thousand words, live from the streets of Port of Spain... I have tried to get a shot like this in Ja... so candid, so real, speaking so many volumes, communicating realities on so many levels and it took good ole TNT to give it to me...

THANKS TRINIDAD!!!

TRINIDAD PHOTO SUMMARY

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RASTA takes over TRINIDAD

After some more reconnaissance and reconnoitring in Trinidad and Tobago our young hero Yannick Nesta Pessoa and consummate megalomaniac and Rasta revolutionary takes a break on the Trindadian shark infested beach of Maracas.

Lovely picture taken by Alicia Ganess.

Tea Time On The Devil's Verandah

As the last hours of 2005 reel off the clock and the year of the rooster comes to a close, I ponder upon odd questions that just trickle into my mind from nowhere... questions like, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE GUY HARVEY FAD???

Once every corner of Jamaica was filled with people in t-shirts with marlins, dolpins and an assortment of fish on their shirts all courtesy of a caucasian I am sure (cause if it was a black man so many Jamaicans wouldn't wear it)... by the name of Guy Harvey...













you remember don't you???

So anyway... here is everybody's friendly neighbourhood Rastaman... trying to creep into the hearts and minds of the many... scheming on how to take over the world yet again with more diabolical plans... if you have any good plan for taking over the world as well please submit them to cyber_yan@yahoo.com

You are also probably wondering about the title of this post... oh well it is another abstract title I have had milling around in my head. I plan to use it for one of my upcoming books.