Bitterjug’s blog

It makes all the difference. A ‘6′ in front of the other digits. Let me explain:

Bitterjug.com is proud to promote Mzinga: the blog of my good friends Vini and Dawn who are also VSO volunteers in Kenya. Mzinga is the Swahili word for a bee-hive and they chose it for good reasons: their house han an infestation of bees which turned out to be a nest in the […]

Monday was referendum day. Matt, Katie, Benard and I took a road-trip.

What happens if rats eat expired poison? Do they get better?

These guys have a project at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Dar es Salaam to translate Open Office into Kiswahili. The first version is already done, menus and whatnot, and a spell checker. They had to ‘invent’ new translations for some technical terms so it’s helping the language to develop too. […]

I just posted two letters […] What I do see, when I look at this stamp, is a message, being sent out on every piece of postage leaving the country…

I’ve been hacking again. You may recall that the old site had page hit counts on the side-bar. Ive added something similar here.
The main reason for this is that, when I check these pages, I get to see if there have been any signs of life since last time. Since one of the main functions […]

This is the label from a roll of chicken wire. Since our ISP is UUNet, this always makes me laugh.