On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > Nothing to do with photography, but an interesting story: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7777560.stm > > I spent a couple of weeks in this town once, mainly trying to rescue my > breakfast from Colobus monkeys. It's a very pleasant little spot on the > earth. > > To me this story shows up the difference between the over-engineered > thinking of westerners who, with the best will in the world, come up with > grandiose but useless schemes like giant dams and one-laptop-per-child which > get bogged down in politics and vested interests, and the simple but > effective schemes of local people who know what's what. >
Well, there's a photo of the donkey and cart, so it's not OT. ;-) Thanks for an inspiring article, Bob. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
