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These were the nine months that were
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16 July 2008 
| 30yp.com (blog) | Flickr stream | 126 views, 0 comments
We had some bigwig visitors last week from the UK. One of them was from Wales. It was a guy, but it was like listening to Gwen from Torchwood.
These fantastic five came in, for one whole week, from the Alliance. It's still not very seemly to divulge their purpose, so you figure it out.
Leaving
Yesterday saw my last proper day at HDN. Of course, during my last two weeks or so, the number of small things that suddenly came my way increased significantly. Suffice to say that that resulted in me having little time for the larger bits, such as making HealthDev.net multi... more »
Haruki Murakami - After Dark
new 9 July 2008 | Reading | 3637 views, 54 clicks, 0 comments
A nice little novel set in the dark hours of the night in Tokyo. Focusing on a few chance meetings, the novel is an easy, slightly offbeat, read.
During the first few chapters, the style and themes seemed to suggest the novel would go the way of The Ring or other similar Japanese fare, but it stayed fairly innocent, if a bit surreal.
Pie on the fourth of July
new 5 July 2008 | 30yp.com (blog) | Flickr stream | 356 views, 3 comments
As my time in Chiang Mai is drawing to a close, major things are afoot at HDN, but more on that later. Much later.
That is not to say that decisions related to my work are any less ad hoc than before. Au contraire. It means for example that although it was scheduled for months for me to do a training in Malaysia, my going has now been cancelled. Not only will I now have to pay myself to check out the Petronas Twin Towers, my last day at HDN will be July 15th, next Tuesday.
This will leave me exactly two weeks before I depart for the IAC, International AIDS conference, in Mexico, where I'm supposed to be meeting a bunch of bigwigs to intimidate them into using a collaborative web based platform based on Blogger, Flickr and the o... more »
Don't Worry, Be Mappy
new 4 July 2008 | Own stuff | 4499 views, 42 clicks, 0 comments
A twenty, or perhaps 25, year old in joke. The inspiration is obvious.
Tigers and flat tires
new 29 June 2008 | 30yp.com (blog) | Flickr stream | 216 views, 2 comments
For months, the plan for HDN to have a retreat has been bubbling just below the surface. Then, quite a while back already, the realization slowly materialized that, in fact, HDN was short of cash and was probably going to be short on cash for a while. Hence, for example, no roll out of partnerships platforms in 40 countries as originally planned, no marketing campaign to launch HealthDev.net and no retreat.
As an alternative, a sports day was organized last week. All expat staff cringed at the idea, quite a few thought of calling in sick, and a few actually did. But I'm sure they were of course too sick to participate.
Turned out, the day was more than excellent, with very little sport, lots o... more »
Ted Hart, James M. Greenfield, Michael Johnston - Nonprofit Internet Strategies
new 26 June 2008 | Reading | hot 5356 views, 0 comments
Three years old, light years in internet time, the book is written more for luddites than anyone else. Because the book's a collection of articles by a series of authors, there's also a lot of repetition and not nearly enough depth.
How to attack America: a surefire process in 12 easy steps
new 24 June 2008 | Own stuff | 170 views, 137 clicks, 0 comments
First of all, consider it art. So spare me the rants.
That said, of course it's provocative.
Over the weekend, I bought myself a copy of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which needs no introduction and I will limit myself to rehashing a part of Wikipedia's overview of the book, which "... has major significance for its vision of an all-... more »
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