Monthly Archives: October 2010
Ubuntu Revelations: Better Safaricom Integration, One App Away
It took me two years to come to this revelation, which is sadly two years too late for me, but I hope this helps out some others. When I first started using Ubuntu in Kenya, I was more than pleased … Continue reading
Boats and Buildings: An Analogy For Your Social Supports
Last night a friend of mine and I were discussing life, as we do in Peace Corps, and our personal social support systems. Who are our friends? What do they mean to us? Where do they fit in our respective … Continue reading
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Witch-doctors and Pretty Pink Ribbons
Peace Corps Kenya has a tradition (which we admittedly stole from Peace Corps Thailand). About three months from out Completion of Service (COS), we hold a COS workshop and it is during this workshop that the tradition takes place. Without … Continue reading
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Push Versus Pull: Newtonian Development
People like parables and anecdotes. They are short, easy to remember, and oftentimes presented in such a familiar and anthropomorphized fashion as to be irrefutable. The perception of such facts s that the collective wisdom of all the world’s storytellers … Continue reading
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Possibility
Possibility. People always speak of standing at the “edge of possibility.” Yet this phrase befits Possibility with inherent characteristics to which I take issue. An edge grants Possibility too much shape. That in fact, Possibility is maybe a downward trip, … Continue reading
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Development As A Video Game
We all know I like to make analogies. Recently I was inspired by a Penny-Arcade (PA) comic to analogize by two seemingly disparate parts of my life: development work and video games. I realize that niche filled by my readers … Continue reading
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