On first day pictures…
Until I setup a proper (rss, geotags, descriptions, etc) gallery, I figured I’d tease the masses with this picture from the first day.
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On first impressions…
This has been my longest flight so far — 24 hours, 35 minutes. Flew from Boston to Washington to Rome to Addis Ababa to Nairobi to Kigali. Ethiopian Airlines came highly recommended and it was more comfortable than my time on long european flights. The layovers were all about an hour so the breaks were all spent on the plane. Fortunately, I sat near a really cool Kenyan family and we had a blast cracking jokes. When the plane touched down in Addis Ababa the cockpit erupted in applause. Applause when a job is performed as expected? Classically African.
Flying into Rwanda I got a look at the country and it’s a stunning landscape. Rolling hills of green streaked with lines of red dirt. Once on the ground, everything is coated with the ubiquitous red dust. Most people walk, but there are a fair number of motorcycle taxis and lorries.
The recent genocide has slowly made it’s way into my conscience. I can’t explain, but walking around the city, it’s hard not to wonder who did what and to whom and how things seem so normal…
I haven’t been suffering the ravages of jetlag and I seem to have avoided any major sicknesses. I’m still in Kigali at the PIH house, making sure the Internet stays up for my colleagues. There were a few PIHers around (all quite cool) and we managed to score some pretty good Mexican grub only a few blocks from the house. I can report burritos in East Africa are quite reasonable…
I’m heading to Rwinkwavu (soon to be home) in a few hours. The server out there was working when I left Boston and now it’s down. Oh, and no hot showers in Rwinkwavu. Sigh.
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On The Yaw landing…
I landed a few hours ago and I’m in Kigali. I’ll write more once I get settled in and recovered from the 24 hour flight….
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On beginnings…
Don’t have time for a full post. I’ve been fixing bugs with medical forms all day, and I’m wrapping up so I can pack my stuff and chill for a few hours before I fly out. I’ll be in the air for about 24 hours but arrive in Rwanda on Saturday afternoon. Will try to post then…
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On no more Web 2.0…
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I think I’m done with Web 2.0 mashups.
Ever since the sale of last.fm to CBS, I haven’t felt comfortable submitting my listening data. Most of you know I’ve felt the same way about Google and now I feel the same way now about delicious, flickr, facebook, etc. I’ve already moved my data off last.fm and soon I’ll remove it from the others.
The biggest loss for me is delicious, but I think I’ll be able to do something similar in this blog — maybe with a plugin or just how I tag it. As far as calendaring, photos, video and music sharing, I think between iCal, iPhoto and WebDAV, I can do most of what I want to do. Dreamhost even has BitTorrent and flash encoders to do file and video sharing.
Once I have more free time, I’ll explain my master plan in detail, but by the end of the month, I’ll be Web 2.0 free. Seriously. Why should CBS have my music listening habits? Why should Google know who I have appointments with? Why should Yahoo know what sites I’m recommending to my friends? Why should Facebook know what movies I want to see? It’d be one thing if they had clearly defined policies on what they do with the data, but they don’t.
You guys should join the revolution.