Kiva - loans that change lives

Archive for April, 2006

Abstract Beat

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Last night there was a poetry, open mike, hip hop gig at Chameleon so we went to check it out. It was organized by a Malawian media company called Abstract Beat and the main guy goes by the name Q Muluwezi. They billed the night as Pillow Talk (a name I don’t so […]

Cecil Rhodes and Robert Mugabe - Opposite Sides of the Same Coin

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

I was reading Bicyclemark’s entry about Zimbabwe and was thinking I feel the same way about old Rhodesia. When land redistribution first hit my radar my reaction was that it made sense. It still does but the way it was handled by Mugabe has been horrible. I have been thinking about Mugabe […]

……. chokin on the Splinners

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Comment on the US photo at the Earth from Above exhibit in Amsterdam

How to Get Ahead in Advertising - Greed Killing the Internets

Monday, April 24th, 2006

“They’re advertising in the skies for people like us…” City of Blinding Lights by U2
Don’t be fooled. This post is not meant to attack those who advertise on their blogs. I consider it but don’t think anyone would bother. The advertising I’m talkin about is the egregious, in your face when […]

Mind Bending Malawi - Props to the Peeps

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

It was quite a holiday weekend. It was Malawified through and through which means there were some high highs and some low lows. This place has stretched my brain in new directions and brought with it new thoughts, old ideas reworked and taken my mind on a journey from which it will not […]

The President’s Man at the Bar

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Last night was the Lilongwe Wednesday night run. I’m still not running in the bush but Mac and Margie have a gym that you can use for a monthly fee in what used to be a garage. I hit the treadmill and ran about 3.5km and walked another 2km. Followed it up […]

global connections

Friday, April 7th, 2006

’segregation by race’ means Apartheid in Dutch ….. and I’m in Amsterdam.
I have this camera and it’s a sunny day … the first in a while apparently …. and there are these kids and they look Dutch …. very Dutch … well one of them anyway, and they’re playing ….. play […]

Parts is Parts

Friday, April 7th, 2006

It seems I was mistaken about 2 things in yesterday’s post. One, there is not so much direct competition between Air Malawi and Nyasa Express. They only had one overlapping route so perhaps the international permit being denied had nothing to do with Air Malawi. My apologies to Air Malawi because I’ve […]

DeLayed Change

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

The first of my New Year’s hopes has come to fruition. Tom DeLay is out but not “because of any wrong doing” but because of political fatigue and the belief that he will not win in November. At least that’s what the NY Times said. That’s funny to me. But it’s […]