An article I wrote at the request for stories by the U.S. Fulbright program was chosen to be featured on the front page of the U.S. State Department’s Fulbright program website. It also is featured in the top bar of the Bangladesh specific page. I wrote about my experience during Ekushey February here in Dhaka, using a blog post as a template. Read the article, I was glad to see that they included all three photos I provided them.
My blog was featured in the May 2008 issue of North Carolina State University’s Engineering Department’s E-newsletter. The article is titled Blogging from Bangladesh: Alumnus chronicles life in Asia and it did a great job of covering all aspects of my time here. It references some of the more exciting blog posts I’ve had in my time in Bangladesh, as well as some quotes from an interview we had through email. I was very glad the portion about rowing made it into the article. As well, because of the rowing reference, it got to be posted up on the news section of row2k.com too on May 28!
The Music page is now up, a discography of the music I’ve written over the years with my bandmates
A bit of history on why we kept changing our name:
Our first name Derailed was what we recorded under during high school for our first two demos, Never Say Goodbye and the self-titled Derailed. Steve and Adam were not with us for the recording of Normal during the winter break from college in 2004, and so reserving the name Derailed for the group of five, we recorded under the name Witness representing only the three of us. However, in the long period before we came together to make our newest demo in the summer of 2007, we had discovered a band from Europe who was releasing music under the name Witness. Thus for our newest demo we chose a new name, Floating Block Technology, bizarre enough that we could not imagine anyone ever choosing it.
My blog EngineerRower in Bangladesh was featured on the front page of the IIE’s U.S. Fulbright Program’s website from March 25. The (very) short news posting mentions my project but also my nightly badminton games!
My website donaldkatz.com is now up and running. I will use this space for managing the various places I am involved on the internet. The aim is for all people who want to know more about me to have a central spot to come to.
For now, please check EngineerRower in Bangladesh for all my latest day to day news, as I spend my time in Dhaka on a Fulbright Scholarship.