Bitterjug’s blog

This morning I stood outside the computer lab clutching my lever-arch file to my chest. hakuna stima in the college. My colleagues joined me there for a moment of solumn reflection.
“There is no power”, said one of them.
“Guess who turned if off”, I replied, jabbing at my chest with my thumb.

I had to explain the […]

It rained yesterday. I mean properly. There had been drizzle on sunday but it rained properly yesterday for about an hour. Hopefully this means we’ll get some more and peoiple can start to grow food again.
I’m hobbling about because I got an Acacia thorn in my foot through the sole of my red rubber flip-flop […]

I am teaching Unix II this term. Unix II: The Sequel.
And Im teaching it to the same class who were so stubbornly quiet last term. I tried this:

Having told them only a little about the unix file system and how it works, I pulled a floppy out of my pocket in the lab.
“This floppy […]

On the way back from Nairobi with some donated computers in the back, the driver drew my attention to a place by the road where there were a lot of people.
“Your government”, he said, ” and other governments, are giving away food”
There is a famine in this area at the moment due to failed […]

Sister Pauline has gone to Naivasha to collect our new volunteer. Yes! New volunteer: we’re getting a Peace Corps volunteer who — apparently — will have been trained in the CISCO Network Academy Programme. She’s here in Kenya now and doing the massive 8 week training (cut from 3 months! because of funding cuts […]

I was just walking round the lab shutting down computers and I found this:

It made me smile.

Its very odd here today, the IT students are on strike.

I stayed at home for an hour to type up some notes. When I finally walked up the path to college there were lines of students on the playing field and sister standing between them looking emphatic. Classes should have started.
They had apparently put […]

Today I dragged myself out of bed late and put off cleaning the floor of the house until after I’d whittled new rawl plugs for the towel rail which keeps falling off the wall in the bathroom.
After sweeping up most of the sawdust and wood shavings I set off to the computer lab… […]

This morning, with my breakfast cup of Melvin’s Tangawizi Tea, I read This article in the Guardina Weekly. Got me interested in Ralph Nader.
So come on… leave a comment and tell me what you think/know/wish about Ralph and the US Elections.

We, at college, have just been joined by a student doing his work attachment. He’s very good at PC repair and we’re learning from each other. Last week he replaced the faulty network adapter card in one of the PCs wiht a good one from an otherwise bad PC. He approached me with the defective […]