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20010127 Already this exceeds any expectations that I didn't have! For 10 days in North Adams, we've been told not to expect to much, to lower our expectations, and never forget that what we find perfectly normal back home, may be entirely different out here. One
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20010125 The geekcorps office. 11 p.m. on a wednesday night. Nobody wants to sleep. We want to be tired on the plane tomorrow. For the sponsors we had a glass of scotch or two, and perhaps a Samuel Adams to top it off. Now! Sitting at the office. Crates
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20010123 All work and no play makes Tomas a dull geek Of course, Not all of what we do here in North Adams is training.... Once in while there must be room for a cultural experience :-) Last night, Tim, Peter, Jason and I took a little road trip to
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20010123 Preparations for a new experience It's started! Sunday, January 14th JFK airport, N.Y. In the confusion that is JFK, I was looking for a cab to take me to Penn Station.... The adventure was beginning. A few months of initial excitement was waning, there was no
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Today I decided to post everything I wrote on http://www.geekhalla.org/ to this site as well. Mostly fopr archive purposes. That means that there are a lot of posts dated today... Don't let that fool you :-)
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This is a challenge. Here I am, probably about 5000 km away from home, working in a tech industry that may be globalizing fast, but is still completely different to anything I know from home. AfricaExpress Communications Network is where I've spent the past 2 weeks, and where
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A quick thank you to slashdot for accepting Jasons post on saturday. The result was an incredible 16,000% increase in page-requests compared to saturday the week before. Now I can convince myself that all those people visited because of my birthday!!! Also thanks to ABC, for a very nice
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To all of you avid followers out there: This Saturday (February 10th) is my birthday. I will be 27 years old. For that reason I am throwing a little informal party at our geek home Geekhalla. So, if you are in Accra on Saturday, please feel free to drop by
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7 a.m. That was the first night down here where i really didn't sleep well at all! We've gone 2 days practically without running water. There is a tank out back where you can get a bucket of water to wash with, but my luxurious
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It's different on a sunday the smells are different, the sounds are different, the people are the same. It's different on a sunday less lively, less of a big city. but the people are the same. It's different on a sunday the multitude of
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To read more about my current adventures in Accra, Ghana, I suggest you visit our site at geekhalla.org.... If you just want a page of my rants, instead of the full site, try clicking here.
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Is it tuesday already? Or is it only tuesday? It seems like so much has happened in such a short time. One moment I feel like I've been away for a month, the next I wonder how what feels like one long day in Ghana has suddenly bridged