One of the most frustrating aspects of life in Namibia, especially working for the government, is the over formalization of so many things. The worst part of this happens during meetings. Every meeting it seems needs to have an extremely formal structure with a reading of the previous meetings minutes, adoption of those minutes and [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
Sigh
As others have done when faced with an existential crisis of faith in their team it helps to look at pictures of cute kittens:
Ok, so now that we are all happy:
So many things went wrong on saturday it is hard to fathom. The defense was clearly outclassed and while Coach Martinez’s scheme might work when [...]
Georgia Football
Yes, I am awake and listening to the game live tonight sitting in my office since I have free internet there. Probably wont leave here until 5 or 6am local time (since kickoff isnt until 1:45). And yet I am happy to be here and the idea of being in bed is quite disgusting, especially [...]
Zimbabwe
In a sadly unsurprising move, the power sharing agreement in Zimbabwe has hit a snag when the details began to be worked out. Broadly the agreement gave Mugabe control over 15 Ministries and Tsvangirai control over the other 16. Of course it wasnt decided which Minsitries each would control.
Based on the information that is coming [...]
Why Im Voting for Obama
I make no secret of the fact that despite being affiliated and philosophically in line with the basic tenets of the Republican Party/Conservatives I am an Obama supporter and at this point I figure that I will be casting my ballot for him next month (our ballots are essentially due in mid October as Peace [...]
Site Changes Part 2
As you can see things have been changed up here once again. I was looking at the site the other day as I was updating things that had been lost in the host change and realized that there was almost no color to the site as it was. So I have added a little bit [...]
Haitian Crisis
Im going to try to do a better job throwing world events of interest up on here that I think at times get overlooked in the US. Then again it is hard to know what is being overlooked in the US since Im in Namibia but lets ignore that inconsistency for now.
Currently there is a [...]
Zimbabwe Power Sharing
Watching the speeches live after they signed the agreement to split power between the currently ruling Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai the opposition leader, widely believed to have won the original election last April.
While Mugabe had pledged to never give up power it was becoming increasingly obvious that his control over the country was slipping [...]
Changes
So it seems that most all of the posts I made this year have been lost in the shuffle and change over to the new hosting company. This is unfortunate but not all that bad.
Kalaharisky also been changed over and the pictures have been lost as well but I am working to get most of [...]
Site Changes
Currently this site is undergoing a transfer from one hosting company to another, hence there is little to no content up here at the moment. Hopefully this will change on monday and all the old posts will be restored. For now there wont be much on here but you can see the new pictures on [...]
26/m who tore that horn off a live water buffalo on a backpacking trip while I was stationed in Namibia saving children infected with HIV/AIDS.
