Chiperoni
From the monthly archives: March 2008
for future reference:
I use Twitter’s direct messages to send out an occasional text message. I’m trying to set up a Twitter account for my family in Blantyre. The idea would be to DM them via Twitter. But somehow, the cell phone authentication is *not* working. (Any ideas?)
As an alternative, I found this page [...]
Stumbled across this, while searching for “tintin comic” for a work-related task:
A collection of cars that appeared in the Tintin comics.
Started talking about the tree line in the Alps and looked up this page and this page.
Factors:
Depends on aspect of slope, rain, and distance to the poles (or how close it is to the equator), and in some cases vegetation…
Swiss Alps: 2100 m
Mount Kilmanjaro, Tanzania: [...]
I’ve been browsing around (aimlessly) looking at WordPress themes.
Uploaded a couple and tried them out, but there’s always something that I don’t like. Typography, comments, additional plugins I need to use the theme. After a while I return to my 3 column version of K2.
What I don’t like are hard-coded navigation or [...]
Newspaper column by Peter Godwin in an Australian newspaper:
“Did you know that Zimbabweans have the highest IQ in the world?” she says. Hmm, that seems a little over-patriotic. “Yes,” she continues, “I queue for sugar, I queue for salt, I queue for fuel, I queue for cooking oil.” And she bursts into [...]
Here’s a blog post to encourage you to go see “Next Level Parzival” at the Schauspielhaus in Basel. I saw it yesterday evening and can recommend it.
If you’re a bit like me, you’ll read the Wikipedia entry on Parzival afterwards.
Further links: Deutschlandfunk
No more work for today. I’m heading home to watch Tatort.
Note to myself:
alles wird gut
never give up
learn the unforced rhythms of grace
There’s a CNN TV report on the shortage of qualified medical personnel in Malawi. I zapped into it yesterday. It shows the dire situation at Mulanje District Hospital and in a rural dispensary. They interviewed a volunteer doctor from Uganda, a midwife who works in rural villages, a couple of Malawian doctors that are working [...]
