A blog from a science nut, computer geek, sometimes philosopher, and a human. Based out of Denver, with a love of Antarctica, I seem to wander the world so who knows where I'll be in 6 months.
When I arrived in Kampala, I was frustrated by the lack of a craigslist.org or gumtree.com sub-site for Kampala. Over the many months I’ve been here I’ve found a huge expat population who’s also been frustrated by this, which got me thinking on multiple occasions about how hard it would be to create a site … Read more
A quick reminder to change your passwords regularly. There are more up to date guides, but password guide I wrote years ago is still fairly valid. Also it’s worth looking at my post on revisiting your personal security. Last night after watching a movie, I noticed I was logged out of gmail, which isn’t odd, … 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
I was hunting through my spam box looking for a piece of real email and saw the first line of this email which tickled me. “yo mate, ok I`ll give you my trick but if you give it someone else I`ll fuckin kill you :)” What to say… They’ve pleaded, oozed, destroyed, tricked, manipulated, fired … Read more
So I have a job. It’s a starter job, but it’s a good start. I’m a Designer with appfrica.org, which is a shop here in Uganda founded by Jon Gosier, another American here in k’la, which is an incubator software design shop. I say incubator as he’s been hiring locals, talented programmers out of school … Read more
Several years ago I took an international relations course at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, it was an intro course taught (I think) by Alan Lamborn, which changed the face of my political understanding. It was in this course that I first began to understand politics and it’s impact on our lives. He upended … Read more
Like Snakes on a Plane, you may be cussing like Samuel L. Jackson at the way cell phones are slithering on to your jet. It is however an ineveitable upgrade, one to which I would encourage you to learn to cope with as the added convince and increased ability to work means that even those … Read more
Uganda, which already has a laws concerning gay sex, is planning laws that broaden homosexual illegalization. This has already happened to some degree in Burundi (who previously crimilized gays) and has been introduced in Rwanda, however the law that’s been introduced in Uganda is much harsher. There’s a debate going on within the ex-pat activist … Read more
We’ve had a new troupe of cats hanging around outside Sarah’s house here. Out of the block of 4 attached houses, they seem to know when we are making things and are always outside. Mama and her 3 littl’n are often in view or meowing outside as we eat dinner. We were having Jon and … Read more
So in my renewed job hunt, I ran across this blog post that I found rather interesting. I was intrigued because in my experience, most people assume application of technology is universal. (i.e. if it works in America then it’ll work anywhere.) Having been in places where that universal application breaks for a bit, I … Read more