Chiperoni
From the monthly archives: March 2007
Today’s recommended link: Cy Kuckenbaker’s photos from Malawi:
http://cysfilm.com/
The corresponding Flickr album is at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cykuck/
Speaking of conferences, this sounds like an interesting event:
TED in Arusha, Tanzania, June 4-7, 2007
http://www.ted.com/tedglobal2007/program.cfm
Anybody interested in sponsoring me in exchange for live blogging? Oh well, too late, registration is closed.
I attended today’s BlogCamp in Zurich; a so-called unConference because it organizes itself like BarCamp. But heh, we’re in Switzerland so it was fairly well organized.
I saw a couple of familiar faces. Maybe I should get a t-shirt saying “Blog conference tourist”… And I invited some of the Basel bloggers to [...]
When I started blogging back in Jan 2003, one of my high flying and lofty ideas was to help cross the digital divide and point to content about Malawi. A goal I haven’t really managed to keep. But from time to time I’ve pointed to various Malawi sites. It’s great to see that [...]
I pay 3.20 Swiss Francs for a kilo of tomato at the local supermarket.
3.20 Swiss Franc is currently about 384.56 Malawi Kwacha
Compare this to current Malawi prices:
Shoprite 199.99 MK
Peoples 110.00 MK
At the market, between 10 to [...]
We got to see the destructive power of tropical insects…. One of our cars stood idle for 3 weeks cos it needed to be repaired.
Within those 3 weeks termites got into the seats, started eating away the insulation on the wiring, and [...]
I wanted to upload a 30 sec amateur video of Lake Malawi, file format being AVI, file size 68 MB. I tried YouTube, I tried Revver, but both just show the first 4 seconds and then stop.
The video runs fine on my old Dell. Any tips?
(Update) this is what Revver had to [...]
