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August 25, 2009

FarmVille ni…

Story by KBW correspondent
Publication date: Aug 25th, 2009

FarmVille is a new Kenyan game on Facebook where you can grab land, excel in overgrazing farmland and overstocking sheep & cattle, buy luxurious decorations and spend the rest of the time idling with a sundowner in your hand.
A report by the KenyaTimes recently revealed that most [...]

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August 20, 2009

It’s our turn to read

“It’s Our Turn To Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower”, by Michela Wrong, ISBN 978-0-00-724196-5

After having read this interesting book by Michela Wrong, written in a similar style as “In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo” (which I really liked) – I am still confronted with [...]

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August 16, 2009

Estamos en España, part 2

What you see in the picture above is a huge sign-board put up by (the supermarket chain) Mercadona in Cartaya, Spain, directly in front of the exit (“salida”) from their car park. Hmm….looks like a Eurofail to me. Ama?

A wide variety of Spanish pastries / cookies and mainly different variations of what’s otherwise called a [...]

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August 11, 2009

Estamos en España, part 1

Einfach mal 9 Tage lang an gar nichts denken, die Sonne auf den vom üppigen Frühstück gut gefüllten Bauch scheinen lassen, nachher mit dem hässlichen, froschgrünen Mietwagen durch die Gegend cruisen und am Abend dann gebratenen Tintenfisch mit frischem Salat und einem kühlen cerveza genießen.

Die Liegen am Pool befinden sich in idealer Handtuchwurfweite vom Balkon.
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August 5, 2009

HP 6930p & service quality

….so I just received my (new) HP 6930p back from repair which I had to send in to JABIL Poland where they were supposed to repair the display lock issue and check why the docking port connector had a problem.

the stuff you do when you receive repaired hardware:
open it up and double-check for any [...]

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August 3, 2009

matching colours

How does this moth know it is actually sitting on a beige surface (here: the inner side of the window blind) that somehow matches its camouflage?
I think it doesn’t actually know.

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