I have a new phone number: 505-829-7858. Give it a try! Many thanks to John Wyss for gifting me the phone and chip. You can also try sip:762546@fwd.pulver.com, if I'm around my computer.

The Red Libre de Ometepe means many things to many people. It helps business people connect to their customers and each other. For students and teachers, it's a research tool, and a "window to the world". For BOSIA, it's a way to bridge worlds, and to improve the quality of education on Ometepe. For me, it is an opportunity to learn, to extend myself into the world, and to experience life more fully.

The very protocols on which the Internet and the RLO are founded afford this flexibility. As the network of networks becomes ubiquitous on the island and in the world, people will be able to find new ways to interact and organize themselves. These possibilities are the cats in the box of globalism, a profound storm of liberalization that spares none.

Such dramatic and rapid change in all sectors of society opens chances for shifts of power. It is my intention to pull against the concentration of power, and to do what I can to empower individuals to understand and control their environments intelligently and creatively. This—the thing I want to promote, not necessarily the promotion itself—is what I call (with tounge in cheek) "the force of Awesome." It is counterposed to that of Good, which is the best a governing body can hope to attain.

All classes of use of the network—for business, in education, in public places, basic services, advanced services, anti-social or normal activities—can be part of the path to empowerment and self-realization. Some things have to come before others, but I am enduringly, patiently committed to the goal.

I welcome any comments. Please note that this was written quickly, though.