Comments on: It happens both ways

By: Kev

Kev — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 04:19:15 +0000

One of the best things about Nidahas (aside from the design of course!) is the constant challenging of assumptions. You know my family situation Prabhath and you know I support the idea of diversity in all things because of that situation but we can all fall into the trap of assumption.

This post just made me think about something in a better way. Thanks for that.

By: Prabhath

Prabhath — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:37:25 +0000

…we can all fall into the trap of assumption

Yes Kev, that’s something I learnt the hard way, but it was a lesson worth learning. And I’m glad you enjoy NIdahas :o)

By: Dulan

Dulan — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:16:36 +0000

Any idiot can make mistakes.

It takes a lot of courage to admit it and even more so to do something, however small, to remedy it.

By: ben

ben — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:46:49 +0000

…Just wanted to drop in and announce that the reference at issue has been revised to:

"For an educational site, it makes sense to allow access not only to affluent, able-bodied school-children with graphical browsers, but also to children in regions with poorly-developed infrastructure who are best served by text-only browsing, or disabled students using specialized browsers."

By: Prabhath

Prabhath — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:30:32 +0000

Wow. Thanks Ben, it’s great to know that WaSP is so responsive.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:55:35 +0000

I have found that it’s too easy when I’m frustrated to fall back into my own prejudices, and that ends up hurting people and my own arguments, as you said so well. This is a great post, and hopefully it will help us all to remember to slow down and really think about what we’re saying.

By: james governor

james governor — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:22:49 +0000

good job man. keep up the extremely good work. humour is tough too - when is it too early to make a joke on a subject? humour helps us get through awful times.

but on the subject of third world amen brother.

it might be possible to reclaim third world, meaning highly skilled lower cost base of operations, innovative people might be a good re appropriation of the word (like “queer”).

but for now i will stick with emerging nations/economies - let the community itself do reappropriation if it wants to.

if Katrina taught us anything its that in the face of nature we’re all “third world”…