(Warning: This one is for the techies)
So I mentioned before that I purchased a bunch of eeePCs to test out in the health clinics and to use in the management agencies as asyncronous web servers and health information management devices.
I suppose to some extent that in retrospect these clinics will have wanted Windows on these [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
Ubuntu-ifying the eeePCs (Netbook Mania Part II)
Netbook Mania
So one of the outcomes of my study last August is that admittedly.. people don’t want mobile phones for their health records, they want laptops. And these new netbooks – well they cost the same as these smartphones. But last August, the eeepcs had a battery life of 1.5 hours and only about [...]
Where Were You When Obama Became President?
How many millions of people were watching CNN, MTV, and whatever other media (BBC, NPR, etc) from how many hundreds of places to see the inauguration? I updated my facebook status on my phone as one friend pondered whether Obama liked porcupines and another studiously avoided CNN, and my department sent out an email [...]
Peace Makes Progress in DRC
UN-backed talks in DR Congo making slow progress, envoy tells Security Council 15 Jan 2009, UN News Centre
Tensions between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda are beginning to thaw as on-going peace talks, aimed at ending fighting in the east of the DRC between the Government and the main rebel militia [...]
