After several weeks with little use of my computer (bad AC adapter) I've just gotten a replacement from Alonso, who went to the Maya meetings in Austin and brought the adapter back. This is the view now in the Panchan cybercafe. Happy computer, happy Dave. Except I should be out on the road to Frontera, where the Lacandones have blocked access to Yaxchilan and Bonampak, in a dispute over tourist revenues. We'll see if the dispute is still going on Monday, when Alonso and I will drive around the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve to its sounthern tip, to the Chajul biological research station.
I missed this in my first craze with Google Earth. It may be going out of date now that Google has purchased SketchUp.
Google Earth - SketchUp Google Earth Plugin
The Frente Petenero contra las Represas is active again. On this year's day of celebration of rivers they demonstrated again against dams on the Usumacinta. At the same time, I was floating down the Usu in a one-man raft, to the far side of Yaxchilan, and exploring the neck of the meander with guide Juan Mayo, from Frontera Corozal.
PrensaLibre.com - Rechazan edificación de represas
"If American companies are already obligated to disclose the sale of bombs and guns to repressive regimes, why not censorware?"
Exporting Censorship - New York Times
But doesn't it always change? Wikipedia as of what date?
Encyclopodia - the encyclopedia on your iPod
They've already been in Tenejapa and here in San Cristobal.
Vision Magazine - Geeks Transcend Their Borders by Manny Frishberg
18 of the secret narcotraffic airstrips in the Peten have been destroyed since US Southern Command Gen. Craddock visited 2 months ago. The Guatemalan Minister of Defense will meet with US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on March 14.
US help in the Guatemala's fight against narcotrafficking started in 2001 in an initiative called Maya Jaguar.
AP Spanish | 03/04/2006 | Ejercito ha destruido unas 18 pistas clandestinas en Guatemala
Considered the most successful African-American woman science fiction writer.
Transcripts from discussions she participated in at MIT, on science, media, and imagination.
After several days of multiple daily visits to the cybercafe at the bottom of the hill, savvy diplomacy by Chip has restored our wireless Chiapas connection. Clips from Carnaval in Chamula on the way. First, an energy item I just saw in Slashdot. Hello World!
CBS News | Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Car | February 21, 2006 00:55:43