Archive for April, 2006

Wireless toolbox for Africa

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

There are a lot of great resources for wireless networking in Africa
like the VSAT Buyers Guide, Wireless Networking for the Developing World and many others. I just found this one - which looks excellent:
The Wireless Toolbox:
A Guide To Using Low-Cost Radio Communication Systems for
Telecommunication in Developing Countries - An African Perspective
link

The importance of skateboarding

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

I miss my skateboard. I had a Powell Peralta deck, with Bones wheels and
Tracker trucks. Everything but the deck I got for Christmas when I was
9. My Dad promised to help me build a deck. So we bought some plywood,
and erected an elaborate scheme of clamps, counterweights, and a hose
out of which flowed endless boiling [...]

Cool hunting work on the web

Friday, April 14th, 2006

I haven’t posted much lately due to the recent lost ability to control
my own priorities. I guess real jobs are like that. Anyways, I have been
trolling the ITMalawi mailing list, and I thought I would paste a few of
my posts here.
Someone (lets call him Chingoni to protect the innocent) wrote the
following - my response is [...]

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