So which one(s) are ya???

On the way home today in a crowded train, my thoughts drifted to the different types of groups in Media Catalyst. So which one are ya?

The Baristas - can make really frothy milk - and the Milk Steamers
Beer o'clockers, Wine lovers and Alcohol-free
Dutch-speakers and 'Dingetje'-speakers
Pub lunchers, Anti-pub movement, Toastie-junkies, Just-eats-food-to-survive, Foodies
Hardcore gamers, Poker players, Magic players
Mac maffia and PC gangsta
Bloggers and Emailers
Friday massage club (majority) and sworn-in members of The Physiotherapists and Chiropractors United (emerging group, includes me ;-p )
Lives in Amsterdam, lives outside Amsterdam
From Europe, from the rest of the world
Good with layering clothes and those who think layering clothes is an alien concept (that's me)
With iPod, without iPod
Music connaisseurs (you decide what this means ;-p )
Heroes / Battlestar Galactica / Dexter loyalists
Harry Potter fans
Geeks, Super Geeks, Wonder Geeks, Geeks-in-Denial
Facebook peeps, Jaiku-ers
MC Band, the rest of MC
Think 'n'Stinkers, Silence is Golden, Yadi-yadi-yadi-ya
Evil Finn, Designer-slash-Model, Designer-slash-Model-Wannabes, Filipino Ninja, Swedish meatballs, Asian Connection...

I'm sure there are lots more, so keep on adding! ;-p

Excerpts from Burmese bloggers

It has been more than two months since the protest movement for democratic reforms in Burma. What has happened since then?

Dissident groups put the death toll at up to 200 and say 6,000 people were detained, including thousands of monks. High-profile opposition figures were arrested; one of them,  Win Shwe, who died of torture during interrogation. The military government of Burma has blurred, if not totally removed, the visual elements of this struggle by cutting off internet and mobile connections in hope that this will lessen the impact on the visual culture of this age.

It might be harder now for the world to see through the tinted windows encasing Burma, but thanks to Burmese bloggers, we have a record of their stories that we can re-tell.

Dawn 109, Rangoon
… I just saw with my own eyes that more than 500 monks... They were chanting: "To the uncountable living beings living in uncountable universes to the east, May they be free of danger, May they be free of anger, May they be free of sufferings, and May their hearts be calm and peaceful. May there be peace on earth."

Kto Hike
… On 26 September, a Buddhist monk was beaten to death by plain-clothed thugs while he was praying at the Shwe Dagon Pagoda in the centre of Rangoon. The dead body was carried back to the Sadu Monastery in Kyee Myindine. My part-time duty is working on Emergency YGH... at about 2 pm, 5 patients were coming to our Emergency... for gun shot wounds... 1 patient died on spot on arriving at hospital... 4 r still bad in Diagnosis... The patient's attendant said he was not in d line of protest... they were chatting and watching d protest line and sitting on Cafe Bar near Shawe Dagon Pagoda... Government military car was crossing to d protest line and randomly shot all of them...