"Years have passed by Nina Simone Nina Simone Nina Simone
The spark still remains Nina Simone Nina Simone Nina Simone
True love can't die Nina Simone Nina Simone Nina Simone
It smoulders in flames Nina Simone Nina Simone Nina Simone
when the fire is burning off
and the angels call my name
Dying love will leave no doubt
that I'm the keeper of the flame"
"She's gone, oh yeah she's gone Canon Powershot S400 Digital Elph
Oh I'd ... better learn how to face it ..." Canon Powershot S400 Digital Elph
Yes, my beloved camera is gone. Canon Powershot S400 Digital Elph
I have a Jabber Instant Messager server that I'm testing. You can help!
What is Jabber? To put it simply, it's free, completely cross-platform, open-source instant messaging (unlike proprietary IM services offered by either AOL, ICQ , MSN or Yahoo!). It's decentralized (and quite secure) so it offers a really inexpensive way for organizations (and individuals) to develop their own secure IM networks. Similar to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Jabber Software Foundation develops the protocol and the server. They develop their own client (for Windows only *rolls eyes*) but they really support a community of others who have developed a myriad of Jabber clients.
And they mean business - they just knocked ICQ out the box.
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Although I didn't blog about it, I recently went to Syracuse for the New York State Black Gay Network's Statewide Training Institute - and for the premiere of Think Again (download the pdf). I still might in the near future, but it's one of those things that you have to catch when it happens. Topics like being in a hotel surrounded by other Black gay men but getting no play, visiting a city in New York smaller than New York City, the new CDC HIV prevention initiatives, feeling disconnected from the community you want to claim and serve; these are more than what could be encapsulated wthin a few short sentences. Well, until then, here of some comments I added to Steven's experience.
Before we get started with this episode, a couple of notes:
Anyway, last night, I brought the week to a close by attending a community forum and a new party in Harlem called UP! (brought to you by the makers of Sprung!). I wish I could say that I was either informed by the former or entertained by the latter, but of course I'm more complicated than that.
A Black man could never give an account of having participated in a gang bang with a white woman and still be considered a popular (if not at least competent) candidate for any public office in this country. Oprah knows that.
