Without going nuts and writing a dissertation like I normally seem to get into, I'm going to try and talk about one of the projects what I've been doing for the last several days. As I mentioned, I've got several going on while I'm here in Burundi, the primary of which is implementing a mobile … Read more
I'm in Burundi again nearly a year after I first arrived on the African continent. I'll be here for about a month (till late June), working on a bunch of different things. Primarily I'm here to help Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities (HROC) as a technical consultant for the Frontline SMS implementation they are using for … Read more
K’la List is alive! In the first 10 days, I’ve gotten 3,000 pageviews 700 visits with an average time of 6 minutes on the site per visit. For those of you who aren’t familiar with website statistics, this is a fairly amazing turn-out for a campaign focused on a country that’s primary medium is mobile … Read more
I’ve been in and out of Uganda for the last 5 months and for the most part there hasn’t been much ridiculous to report. Yesterday however I had an incident that is very African and quite ridiculous. First, you need some background. I am not working these days, rather I’m doing some volunteer work for … Read more
For those of you in DC, you might want to keep tabs on my A Smarter Smartrip page as it might turn out to be a useful way to improve your SmarTrip experience. As I explain on the page: I’ve grown to loath these SmarTrip cards because they break or get lost. It’s a pain … Read more
I like to travel and I don’t travel as much as others, but being intelligent, curious, and fascinated by airplanes, airlines, and travel I’ve been engaged in a continuing cycle of learning about how secure our travel really are. If you’ve done any real research in the matter you’ll have found that TSA is equivalent … Read more
I got out of DC yesterday and spent several wonderful hours wandering around polyface farms in the Shenandoah Valley of northern Virginia. 3 hours of a drive from DC, it was well worth the trip as we managed to shuttle past the persistent rainstorm settled atop DC for the beautiful weather at Polyface Farms. For … Read more
11 months ago I was in New Zealand visiting random couchsurfers and meeting up with some friends on my 2005-06 summer on the ice, when chances of chances, I ran into an interesting an enthusiastic women who just finished a time at a Community Supported Agriculture Farm. April Armstrong, was on a working holiday in … Read more
Has it been 3 months? I’ve been In Washington DC for three months? It’s hard to believe I’ve been in one place for so long. It’s Christmas eve in the US capital and “Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” Although I think that’s out of fear for the house cat Luther. He … Read more