Wow, I’ve eventually upgraded my tech-nomade life by switching to an improved home office setup.
From a single (1280 x 800 px) notebook + cabled mouse…

…to a (1680 x 1050) 22″ wide-screen monitor and a cordless Logitech keyboard & laser mouse:

You know I actually didn’t want to go this far and attach another screen to my [...]

…or why I would sometimes like to place my colleagues at work in front of a few selected videos that will help them understand why we urgently need to rethink our knowledge management strategy (or even better: develope a strategy!):

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Do you have any idea how hard it is to explain the future of the web [...]

LEDNA - the Local Economic Development Network of Africa.

My friend, former colleague and fellow blogger Christian created this lovely site with Drupal on behalf of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC (& UNCDF, gtz, ILO + USAID).
Christian actually tested his design on me and others some time ago, using Silverback and directly implemented [...]

Working as an external consultant, I really needed to reorganize my personal organiser and put it in a much more effective combination.

my old personal organiser
Imagine I’ve been using this traditional filofax (”file of facts”) system for the last 10 years and often didn’t have enough space to keep my notes. Plus, I am one of [...]

I was just going through some older images from an excursion* to Afghanistan in 2002 when I stumbled upon this:

…which reminded me of this!
SCDL - same chaos, different location
* = found an older hard disk in the office which contains about 30 GB of images that will need to be sorted and partly uploaded to [...]

So today is World Environment Day and I had actually planed not to cover this special day as I am dealing with environmental issues almost every day and would actually have to blog on it every day then. Just similar to what World Water Day means to me (not much as a *special occasion* from [...]