So as part of this ongoing drama of making sure that network traffic originating in Ghana actually stays here instead of wandering off to Europe and coming back (sorry for the jargon: if this doesn’t make sense to you, the rest probably won’t either), I’ve been trying to set up ping and traceroute and various [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2007’
GPS Tracking Melissa (the shark)
A friend forwarded me this post about a new Discovery Channel game, in which the positions of the sharks in the game reflect the actual position of actively tracked sharks in the ocean. Cool, huh?
So if you can’t figure out where I am, at least you can always find Melissa the shark…
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Kiosk Computing Untied
My good friends at the University of Waterloo Tetherless Computing Research Group just released KioskNet, an open-sourced, live-cd’d solution for setting up sneakernet-style terminal server kiosks.
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Pictures… of me!
Of course, I don’t have very many pictures of myself. You can only do so many arms-length ones before it starts feeling cheesy.
But! My friend Paul was here (you can see him in some of my pictures) and he takes much better photographs than me. Check out his photostream for [...]
Rockin' Rolling Blackouts
I’m sitting here in the semi-dark and I realized that I still haven’t blogged about one of the more salient aspects of my time here in Ghana. Okay well. –insert sheepish grin– i actually realized that ages ago when Paul arrived and mentioned that I could have at least warned him that we only have [...]
Uganda/Ghana World Bank Statistics
I’m saving these here mostly as bookmarks, but thought they might be useful to anyone reading this blog…
The World Bank database has lots and lots of interesting and relevant stats (if not necessarily entirely accurate). The following two links are the summary pages for Uganda and Ghana. You can also do queries on the [...]
Uganda pastor denies miracle scam (BBC News)
One of the things that stands out in my travels in Africa (more so in Ghana than Uganda) is the prevalence of the charismatic pentacostal megachurches. They have their pluses and minuses (Phillipians 1:17-18 comes to mind), and I have some hesitations about the “prosperity gospel” as well as how much they seem to [...]
AITEC ICT for Healthcare in Africa Conference: Nairobi, 11-13 September 2007
The announcement is here.
From the call for proposals:
AITEC Africa, Africa’s leading ICT event organiser, is inviting presentation proposals for the first ever ICT for Healthcare in Africa Conference, to be held in Nairobi over 11-13 September 2007.
Delivery of healthcare services remains rudimentary in most of Africa. To achieve any of the [...]
Ethiopia's High Speed Hospitals (BBC News)
The Indian government is collaborating with a number of African countries on a pan-Africa e-Health network, aiming to encourage collaboration between Indian and African doctors over VSAT. Ghana’s included in this program, I believe starting with the Komfo Anoyke Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. The project is funded for 5 years – I’m [...]
VOTD: Philippians 3
Philippians 3 is nice because it clearly lays out one of the distinctive and oft-overlooked characteristics of Christianity, that our righteousness, our redemption comes not from our own doing, but through faith. Of course the common objection to this is that we would then have no motive to do good things, if all we have [...]
