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August 31, 2007

Simpsonize me!

(i love these aliens, also famous from the Iraq episode)

Ok, now that’s JKE in Springfield. Interesting. Try it!

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August 30, 2007

“Githingithia” on Wikimapia

I just marked my good friend’s duka “Githingithia” on Wikimapia.

Wikimapia is a nice GoogleMaps Mashup, but I doubt it’ll be good enough to suite our need for a web-based project database.

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August 29, 2007

the installation & admin status dilemma

Just a short notice to those poor souls who are confronted with the scenario in which they are forced to run an executable file (*.exe) on their machine which requires an installation and don’t have administrator privileges in a Win NT/2K/XP/Vista environment – so an installation often isn’t possible.
I am currently working on a proposal [...]

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August 28, 2007

basement trouvaille

Earlier last week, I found an old guitar in the basement of my current landlord:

“What’s the story on this one?”, I asked the couple that owns this house full of interesting stuff. “Aaahh….we got it some 15 years ago, inherited it from an aunt who loved playing it and since no one’s playing [...]

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August 22, 2007

How to… backup your phone book

There’s this lady who was recently forced to buy a new mobile phone as her old one had decided to go into early retirement.
With the option of storing names + numbers on a SIM card, the transition between two phones should be relatively easy. Storing capacities for SIM cards depend on what the network provider [...]

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August 14, 2007

Kibera Public Space Project

What an awesome use of the blogosphere to highlight this important fact!
(n.b.: the displayed toilet seats (to convey the message)? are flushing toilets which are _not_ environmentally sustainable, but only add some comfort. hence “progress” is _not_ achieved by introducing a working sewarage system that relies on water to flush away faeces and urine, but [...]

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August 10, 2007

Sustainable Sanitation Alliance & Akvo & Web2forDev

I’ll be in Stockholm over the weekend to attend the 3rd meeting of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (@ Stockholm Environment Institute, SEI). Plans actually included to attend the upcoming World Water Week in Stockholm and, more importantly, having a few interesting conversations during those evening sessions, but…[still searching for an excuse to explain why my [...]

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August 9, 2007

Mobical & Nokia N95 “redesign”

I started using the free synchronisation services @ mobical.net and am pleasantly surprised at the ease with which I can now synchronize the address book on my mobile phone with an external website.
Mobical isn’t perfect, and I just use it to backup and edit my data more conveniently, but nevertheless it is a bit better [...]

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