Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 31st, 2005
No, not the band and no, I'm not really actually angry at the USPS either. It just seemed like a funny title for a post about my struggles this year with paper mail (you know, the stuff that comes in a mailbox instead of an inbox).
See, about a week ago ...
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
Yesterday was a nice, lazy Sunday... after my afternoon nap I thought I should check out some of the podcasts that iTunes has been downloading for me over the last few months. I never think to listen to them; in fact, I've fallen into the trap of only listening to a handful of playlists that ...
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
Well said, Cat.
And the movie rocked, too... (even if I did see it on a 4" screen on the way from Amsterdam to Nairobi).
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
Before moving to Rwanda, I thought that maybe the most difficult transition I'd have to make would be adjusting to a somewhat less than reliable infrastructure. I was thinking power outages, water outages, lack of potable water from the taps, and other things would end up being big annoyances, given ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
So this morning I'm auditing some of the usage reports for the Village Phone program here in Rwanda, and as part of that I'm stepping through some Excel macro VBA code that I wrote many moons ago... and I see this:
Dim sum ' and now i'm hungry
And I can't ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
I've been pounding through books at an (apparently) Rain Man-like pace since I arrived back in Kigali. The discarded remains of what I've read are at home so I don't have the exact count, but I've probably gone through something like seven or eight titles in the last two weeks. ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
Last week CNN.com published an article that surveyed (at something of a high level) some of the ways that cell phones are being used in Africa. (Looks like it was part of a special report on "wireless society" that I should probably read but will promptly forget). From the article:
Amina Harun, ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
OK, I know I gush about the rain here in Rwanda, maybe too much. (I've been gushing about a lot of stuff, lately, just not in this forum. Gobs of gloppy goodness in life of late). Today, though, it would be really handy to have a meteorologist or some other ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Trevor just posted a great set of observations on differences between the States (Lansing, MI, to be exact) and Denmark (where he now lives). I've been noodling the idea of posting something similar based on my recent time back home in Seattle - lots of people have asked me (both ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
#284
You know you've lost the argument when you're told that you've "brought passion to the dialogue".
Maybe not the war, but you've definitely lost the battle, buddy boy.
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