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July 26, 2008

wapi? (part 15)

Not a question of the location (though this gets you extra credit), but rather: from which movie is this?

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April 11, 2008

How to get your NGO online…

Disclaimer: Not a real post for now, but I’ll post it anyways…just a lose collection of thoughts (so that I don’t have to keep on repeating myself on this topic).
Obed, my colleague from Zambia, founded an NGO some years ago. Today he told me that his NGO actually requires a website.
At this point, most people [...]

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April 2, 2008

The One Laptop Per Family initiative

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative – yeah, “nice” – but let’s look at reality and at what we can / what we’ve already done in the past: inheriting a used, older computer to a member of the extended family – I call it the One Laptop Per Family initiative :-)
Be it in Europe, [...]

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December 21, 2006

jam rescue 2

This scenery…

…shall just remind me of peaceful Embu downtown.
If you watch closely enough, you can see a “promotion” going on at the left side of the road where two dudes tried to sell raffle tickets and promised some things like TV sets and other goods rural folks might be attracted to.
And then I arrived in [...]

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December 20, 2006

Embuesque

Sukuma + some meat: 30 /=
plain Chapati: 10 /=
Soda dogo : 20 /=

A beautiful view on *kitsch* signboards with strange messages: priceless :-)
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Remember this post on the matope infested road to our office?

Well, sijui if its for the judge who lives there, but the city town council of Embu today decided to *eventually* do something [...]

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December 19, 2006

Es gibt Reis, baby!

So you’re passing through Mwea and see a woman selling rice. And look, there’s another one selling rice. And another one. And another one. And another one. And another one. And another one. And another one. And another one. And….

“Waititu”, I asked my colleague the other day, “why are aaaaaalllllll these people selling rice? I [...]

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