Archive for March, 2005
Thursday, March 31st, 2005
Tuesday's New York Times includes an article describing the Brazilian government's push toward free software in both the public and private sector in that wonderful country. Upon reading it I commented to a colleague thus: “Oy. That's gonna be a clusterfuck.“
There are really two pieces of the story: the general ...
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Thursday, March 31st, 2005
On Monday of this week my inbox dinged with mail from Patty Murray, Senator from the state of Washington. I wrote to Patty and our other Senator, Maria Cantwell, some time back to try to goad them into doing something about Darfur. The response from Senator Cantwell was posted a couple ...
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Thursday, March 31st, 2005
Yesterday was quite a day at the house. Things started off on a sour note on Tuesday night, when I arrived home to find that the power had gone off and the generator was out of fuel. I managed to enjoy the darkness, hoping that the next day would bring ...
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
I can't remember the last time I was in a world as completely saturated in darkness as I am tonight. Here at the house in Kigali the power is out and the generator is out of fuel, having sputtered into silence after a few brief minutes of producing current. Apparently ...
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Sunday, March 27th, 2005
Attention Seattle people: as of this weekend, Hotel Rwanda is playing at the Big Picture in Seattle. If you haven't been to the Big Picture before, it's a fantastic place to view a film; there are cocktails available (they'll even bring a refill midway through the movie) and fantastic popcorn ...
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
I've mentioned the Kigali rains more than once in this space, and so it seems at least vaguely appropriate to use the storm metaphor for the current situation with the Village Phone project in Rwanda. Not that things are necessarily stormy - occasional showers, perhaps - but it feels like we're ...
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
Of the blogs I read, WorldChanging is consistently one of the most interesting, thought-provoking sources of information about a broad span of issues. Consider some of the recent posts:
Wolves as Climate Effect Mitigators
South-South Pharma (this is a really good and important read)
Understanding War in Order to Save Lives
Invasive Species Weblog
For Space, ...
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
About a week and a half ago my dear, dear friend Jen dropped a package off at the US Post Office in Seattle; the recycled box transported a whole slew of goodies destined for me here in Kigali. To wit, the contents of the box were:
1 waffle-weave, terry-cloth lined robe ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
I'm sitting at the bar at the Intercontinental in Kigali, enjoying their free (!) wireless internet access and catching up on email and trying to delete the spam from my blog comments and various other wired things. The background music seems to be the best of the lite hits of ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
I don't have Internet access here at the house in Kigali. This is probably the first time in close to fifteen years that I haven't had at least dial-up access in my domicile. To be sure, I could get dial-up access but it's not particularly cheap and would in many ...
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