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Zurigo

The conf location is impressive… Sarah O’Keefe is speaking on “Working in a third culture world”. A couple of slides:

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A weekend snapshot…

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Photowalking

I went a-photowalking in Hannover and Hamburg. I’ve started uploading a couple of snapshots. Some of my personal favorites include: errr… all of them really!

BlogCampSwitzerland

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 the upcoming Basel… Continue reading BlogCampSwitzerland

Price comparison

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 50 MK for one tomato depending on its size.

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The power of insects…

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 created short circuits with their discharge in the fusebox, and thus corroding… Continue reading The power of insects…

Textiles

Here are a couple of snapshots of wall hangings I saw: Tribal Textiles, based in South Luangwa, Zambia is making some very nice and original cloth. There’s a shop in Blantyre that has some of their textiles: La Caverna in Mandala House. Mandala House is one of the oldest buildings in Blantyre, built by the… Continue reading Textiles

Avocados

Here are a couple of snapshots of one of our dogs in Blantyre enjoying avocados: We’ve got an avocado tree in our yard and the dogs eat the fallen fruit.

Chiperoni country

Drive-by snapshot of the Chiperoni blankets depot in Luchenza, Malawi. See also: http://www.chiperoni.ch/wordpress/index.php?p=9

Where we have hope

Recommended read: good, informative book on Zimbabwe as seen thru the eyes of a foreign journalist, that was based in Harare from 1980 until he was expelled in 2003.

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Lift ( Day 2.0 )

A small little trend I observed: Quite a couple of presentations are using Flickr photos as a background…

Tour de Quälix

Summary of this evening’s sporting activities: Bike home cos I forgot my takkies Bike back into town to meet up with jogging friends Run along the River Rhine 2 bridges down and 3 bridges up Add a few a stretching exercises, and then bike back home to document sporting activities meticulously in blog A jogging… Continue reading Tour de Quälix

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Museumsnacht 07

Lots of fun. It was incredibly warm for January. Nearly felt like summer. I’ve uploaded some snapshots at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiperoni/tags/museumsnacht07/

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