What is it about popular music, sung in English, that originates from outside of the English-speaking world? This is a topic that’s occupied me for a few years now. Not in the least because I didn’t grow up speaking English, or in the English-speaking world. My own relationship with popular music has been one of [...]

Recipe: Earth bowl
Earth Bowl is the yummiest, healthiest, most counter-intuitive meal imaginable. Originally published by Caroline Dupont in Enlightened Eating (an excellent, continually surprising source of vegetarian, vegan and raw food recipes and inspiration), Earth Bowl combines apples, celery and nuts into a healthy meal or snack. It could be breakfast because it has apples and nuts. [...]

Read: Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions
A few years ago, I read Kunzru’s Transmission and loved it. I thought it was switched on to what the world was becoming and elegantly highlighted how people from developing countries are traversing the boundaries of distance and economics by plugging into the ‘new’ economy. Then, I tried to read The Impressionist and failed to [...]

MOSS Classroom Training Agenda
When I deliver SharePoint classroom training for first-time users (or those needing a refresher), this is what my training agenda typically looks like. I’d be interested to get some feedback on this, or hear from others who have developed their own training agendas. SharePoint Training Agenda (4-5 hour instructor-led classroom session) Introduction & overview (30 [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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- Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step. (Alain Finkielkraut) 10 hours ago
- Music really is amazing. No matter how deeply you steep yourself in it, or for how long--there's always a fantastic new artist to discover. 13 hours ago
- More world's worst brands: http://t.co/FEgngM6s 1 day ago
- How to accommodate low literacy readers in your web writing. http://t.co/2s1dKV52 1 day ago
- @dybskiy So what — are you staying? 2 days ago
- @joniv Absolutely. No issues. We're having the easiest winter in the history of winters this year... can't complain really :) 2 days ago
- @joniv Great - now I have that song in my head! Hope you're well :) 4 days ago
- It's 5:30pm, and - strangely - things are finally starting to flow (where I've been beating my head against a wall for most of the day). 4 days ago
- How to catch an iPhone thief: Officer knows buttons to push. http://t.co/YHVgl0MS 1 week ago
- I have a nasty, sneaky cold. TGIF. 1 week ago

