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I am currently back in Trieste, with my good friends Marco and Carlo, and this time the topic is Bandwidth Optimization. More info here: ICTP-SDU: Lowbandwidth Optimization Techniques I've given lectures and had lab sessions on Traffic Shaping, and Bandwidth Monitoring, as well as some very basic linux
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For the past 4 years; in fact ever since that fateful day about 5 years ago when I said yes to travel to ghana, working as a volunteer for Africa Express , and genreally having a blast. It was my baptism into the fascinating world that has occupied the last 4
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We spent saturday cleaning up and winding down after the weeks extravaganza. Well, actually i spent most of the day in the foetal position, dehydrated and hungover after and all-night beer and burning (cd's) session and nigh on 2 hour of sleep. Debrief and detox.... In other words,
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I'm back in Denmark. No hiding here. It was a wonderful vacation, and Brazil remains high on my list of wonderful countries. Lençois and the Chapada Diamantina, in Central Bahia are especially recommended. There are pictures to be seen here, and perhaps some updated entries from my little
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So, I had a plan.... to update this page with a few brief travelaccounts once a week while i was away. Part one of the plan has been succesful. i´ve written a few brief accounts of special experiences in my small leather-bound moleskine notebook (incidentally the notebook favoured by
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Yes, yes, yes..... I'm going to Bahia, with a brief stop in Rio and a trip to Pernambuco. Brazil, here we come. Since the girl of my dreams has finished her Masters degree and is now officially an engineer, AND has landed a dream job in a difficult
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So, I actually got some pictures up.... have a look at http://photo.multiplicity.dk feel free to comment on them. I will hopefully be adding meaningful descriptions to some of these pictures soon.
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tsitsernakaberd. monument and museum of the armenian genocide. between 1915 and 1916 the then ottoman empire exterminated (yes, really, exterminated) some 1.5 million armenians living as citizens of the ottoman empire, in what was then known as western armenia (a part of turkey, i might add). they started off
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it's a all a little bit strange. going home! after just 30 days here in armenia, i've started thinking about going home. i'm ready to go home. i've had a great time here, i love the work i do on a trip
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cheers everyone, just a few days short of the end of my yerevan adventure, i finally got a dial-up account. or more precisely i borrowed a dial-up from a new isp, with offices in the same hotel as iesc. so here i am, sitting in bed with my laptop on-line
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it's overwhelming sometimes. nearing the end of my month-long armenia project, tasks seem to be coming out through the floorboards. as if everone here has finally realized the extent to which it-expertise can be aboon to their business. i guess that's one of many possible indicators
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i had no idea internet would be this difficult. i was so close to getting my own dial-up account from local isp netsys, when the telephone monopoly decided to shut of their phone lines for no apparent reason. so here i am, in armenia, laptop loaded with connection possibilities, and