Noulakaz
The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.
According to the Peter Principle:
In a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently.
Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (they have reached their level of incompetence), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions.
The obvious deduction is:
In time, every post tends to be occupied by someone who is incompetent.
Now I understand a lot of bizarre things happening in our beloved country every day…
I love The Pirate Bay, the largest BitTorrent tracker on the planet. I love BitTorrent which is a technology to make downloads as efficient as possible on the Internet. And I love when I see a few lawyers spending months of time and millions of dollars to try to close down The Pirate Bay and not succeeding.
Why I love The Pirate Bay
Some years ago, I was 100% against software, music and movie piracy because I thought that when someone downloaded something for free from the Internet, this meant that an artist somewhere was being robbed. But, now, I know that this is not true. It seems that most of the money goes to intermediaries and the artist only get a small part.
A lot of artists (most notably Radiohead) have decided to eliminate intermediaries and deliver their creations directly to people like us. Some make us pay on their website (e.g. Ronald Jenkees, the famous YouTube keyboard player and, yes, I bought his MP3) and some give their music for free (and bank on advertising revenue or special editions of their CDs.)
What I don’t like
There is something I don’t like though. I don’t like people downloading thousands and thousands of songs or hundred of movies but never having the time to appreciate them. Sure, the Pirate Bay allows people to discover new artists and their creations but it can also make us lose our artistic sense by blurring the distinction between quality and quantity.
I wonder whether kids should be taught how to be discerning pirates from a very young age.
What do you think?
I have just upgraded my weblog to WordPress 3.0 and, as you can see, I have decided to use the new default theme, Twenty Ten, but with a circuit diagram as the header image to reflect the new subtitle which is “A blog on Technology Convergence.”
In parallel, I’ll continue to blog elsewhere on different topics. For instance, I blog on Knowledge7.com about Information Technology, Computer Science, Personal Development and Career Advancement because, well, this is what Knowledge Seven Ltd is all about. I also blog on Elections.mu on politics in Mauritius including the Government’s strategy for IT in the country as well as for our education system. Finally, I also write articles on Open Source on Lugm.org, the official blog of the Linux User Group of Mauritius.
To be frank, I blog less often now. But I try to make my articles more insightful and useful. So it is as demanding as before.
You will notice that I have enabled the CommentLUV plugin on Noulakaz.net in order to enhance the interaction between you who regularly leave comments on my blog and me. I also have fewer Google ads on the blog because I am not doing Noulakaz.net because of Google’s money.
In fact, and I wrote about this before, I have been blogging for more than 6 years now because this creates the opportunity for me to interact with more interesting people.
Thanks to you all.