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A flash and the lights are out again. The little tell-tale flashing of the lights seems to be the split-second warning you get before everything suddenly goes quiet here at work. Your computer screen flashes that awry diamond in your face, the fan above your head starts decelerating,
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The Geek Flip Contest at the Mole Olymbig Geek-flip Pool Long-lasting tradition dictates that the Mole Motel pool be the staging ground for this competition of dare devil's. In the memorable tradition of such stunt masters as Evil Knievel and Stone Cold Steve Austin, this contest
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Still Wasting Time at work Tuesday morning. The morning after. I have a travel hangover. If you've ever done 18 hours of developing world travel in a single day you'll probably know what I'm talking about. To paraphrase Douglas Adams: It's almost
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What is there to write??? Everything becomes so normal after a while. No longer is there something new going on all the time. No longer does it bother me to wait an hour for the simplest things. The food that was a constant source of surprises, is now merely good
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Ghana and the Information Age The unbearable lightness of waiting. Time is different here. So close to the 0 meridien, Ghana is on GMT. But it is a different GMT. Ghana Maybe Time. The difference is, in a sense, trivial. Everything just takes more time. I'm writing this
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Rainy Season It's funny, the rainy season. The pure regularity of the weather. I remember it from other places. Like the Galapagos Islands. Perched as they are, on the equator, surrounded by a thousand miles of undisturbed, weather regulating ocean they must have one of the most predictable
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Close to 4 weeks on the ground, and I still don't speak Twi. Close to 4 weeks on the ground, and I still don't speak Twi...... Not a word of it. Well maybe a word, but that's really it. To compensate for my obvious
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The Geekhalla Trivia Team goes for Gold! Last night The Geekhalla Trivia Team, a select group of 5 Geeks, selected carefully from amongst the inhabitants of Geekhalla, won a sweeping victory over other trivia contenders, at the Champ's Sports Bar Thursday Trivia Challenge. The team got of to
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The little tell-tale flashing of the lights seems to be the split-second warning you get before everything suddenly goes quiet here at work. Your computer screen flashes that awry diamond in your face, the fan above your head starts decelerating, and everything around is suddenly in darkness. Such
Travel
Long-lasting tradition dictates that the Mole Motel pool be the staging ground for this competition of dare devil's. In the memorable tradition of such stunt masters as Evil Knievel and Stone Cold Steve Austin, this contest involves a number of physically less-than-fit, motorically challenged but
Travel
Tuesday morning. The morning after. I have a travel hangover. If you've ever done 18 hours of developing world travel in a single day you'll probably know what I'm talking about. To paraphrase Douglas Adams: It's almost exactly like an 18 hour
Travel
Everything becomes so normal after a while. No longer is there something new going on all the time. No longer does it bother me to wait an hour for the simplest things. The food that was a constant source of surprises, is now merely good food. The interactions with people