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About Stephane Daury

Enjoyer of life; software developer. See https://stephdau.me and https://tekartist.org

Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation

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Massive Attack on stage at the Bell Centre, October 18th 2010.

I went to see Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation tonight with Xopher at the Bell Centre. An awesome show by any measure. Both ensembles played a full 1.5 hour gig, TC had 13 members rotating and MA about 9. Only downer was that we were sitting instead of standing on the floor. Bought the tickets too late for that (oh well).

Finishing the evening at la Banquise (where else?) with Eva, who was shooting the event, and Xopher was just the cherry on top.

Next up on the live Trip-Hop front: Bonobo on November 6th and Tricky on December 11th.

UnPresenting workshop

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From Nick’s blog:

Today I attended an UnPresenting workshop because I’d like to get comfortable in front of a crowd so I can be a speaker at WordCamps.

From Heather Gold‘s site:

Heather Gold is the love child of Sarah Silverman and Rachel Maddow and tours North America as a comedian, speaker, and solo performer.

This all sounds great to me. Going to have to look this up when in San Francisco. Although I do have easy access to advice from great speakers like Matt and Scott if I want to through Automattic, such a workshop is sure to facilitate things.

Corruption-Ending SMS, I like that

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On receiving their money in this way for the first time, most Afghan policemen assumed that they had been given a salary increase: in fact they had simply received their full pay for the first time. In some cases they received pay ‘rises’ of more than a third, preventing defections to the Taliban who were previously able to pay higher ‘salaries’.

via M-Paisa: Ending Afghan Corruption, one Text at a Time.