by The Wordyeti | Feb 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s been 20 years since I took a job as wire editor, later managing editor, of the Caracas Daily Journal. In all that time, I have not returned. Part of that is because the circumstances under which I left were pretty heinous – I had been...
by The Wordyeti | Jan 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s not often that you get to play with a piece of steampunk genius like the Ottmar Mergenthaler Linotype. This thing was a work of Rube Goldberg art … if you’ve ever seen one in operation, it groaned and hissed, clanked and whirred … This one...
by The Wordyeti | Nov 27, 2007 | journalism
Our training sessions are finally done, we got great reviews from all the newspapers we visited, and we’ve learned tons about Colombia and all the changes that have taken place here. The last six years have seen a sea change in the security situation...
by The Wordyeti | Nov 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
In case all you gringoes up in Gringolandia missed it, last week the controversial (I use that adjective, because a diatribe this early in the post of negative adjectives just isn’t nice) Hugo Chavez got slapped down by King Juan Carlos of Spain. During a...
by The Wordyeti | Nov 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
The video below is of small children playing on the spinning benches in the play area (I hesitate to call it a park) next to the Planetarium, which is itself next to the Botanical Gardens. We wanted to go to the gardens, because it supposedly had an...
