Archive for August, 2005
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
I've written before that my ability to blog effectively from here in Rwanda has been a bit constrained by my lack of internet access at home; during the day I'm slammed with work, and nights are consumed with either frightening the guard with loud, wine-induced sing- and dance-a-longs with my ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
This is hilarious. Some random company (or possibly just a guy) called FrozenBear has taken the APIs for HotOrNot and for Google Maps and mashed them together into a tool you can use to peruse HottiesOrNotties by location... the map of your local area shows little pins that, when clicked, pop up ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
Turns out that there's at least one other expat in Rwanda blogging: Lynsey Bourke with Sack of Potatoes. Her latest post turned up in my Technorati Rwanda feed and, small world, references a party that I too was at last weekend.
Great party, too...
UPDATE: the link to Sack of Potatoes is ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Random note:
Saying "oye, no mas" to a little Rwandese kid who is intent on pushing the 'a' key on your laptop will have little effect.
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
As usual I'm blogging offline so have limited resources to link to and zero follow-up or research capability, but from a distance it is seriously mindboggling to try to understand how the WFP could just literally run out of gas. From the truly phenomenal Sleepless in Sudan comes this post:
The ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Havana Club is a pizza joint slash bar in Kigali, just up the road from my place, that I end up eating in quite frequently. Maybe it reminds me of home.
They have satellite radio and the programming is, well, eclectic to say the least. The current track is some fucked ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
About a week and a half ago, a story aired on NPR about rural internet access points in Rwanda and how they're being used. Turns out that the Rwandan government has a program in which they are driving to set up something like 400 telecenters in rural Rwanda by the ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Sometime in the past, maybe a year ago (?), I received an email from a (then new) friend who had the best freakin' domain name EVER: wherethehellismatt.com. Being the curious sort, I poked at the domain with a browser and was rewarded with Matt's site and more importantly, Matt's video. ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Wonkette cracks me up on a daily basis, but imagine my surprise when Rwanda actually turned up in a post. Bill Clinton had been through for a quick (I think 6 hour total) visit (a couple of friends were at the meet and greet... sounds like he was looking better ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
I received the most interesting phone call on Monday night. After three or four calls with colleagues back in the US, when my phone rang again at around 11:15 PM I figured it was work related and just picked up. Imagine my surprise when the conversation went something like this:
Caller: ...
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