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Here’s the answer to a question I had last week but couldn’t find on the Internet.

It was interesting to revisit Tala, Holy Rosary and Kenbrick on my trip to Nairobi. Also interesting to revisit the blog. I thought I had no visitors these days, except people upgrading the RAM on their Medion laptops, but Christine’s comment on the last entry proves me wrong.
So I’m writing this; revisiting the blog, with [...]

Never thought this would happen again

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I left Tala shaking red dust off my feet. Who’d have thought I’d end up back at Holy Rosary after a number of years?
Bernard Mutua showed me the two new street lamps in the market stage [...]

I help run Cambridge Climate Change Charter whose community website is hosted by Ning because, back when we set it up, that was a way to host free community sites. As you all know, Ning recently revealed their money-grabbing true nature by stopping free sites. The Charter team have been making choices about where to [...]

Recently #youmightbeanatheist stirred up a trend on Twitter:

#youmightbeanatheist if you prefer to be informed rather
than have blind faith in something (DylanBrent) etc.

Meanwhile, despite TV ads from DECC’s Act on CO2, we still don’t  believe in climate change and we’re still not treating climate change as the emergency it is.
You might be an climate skeptic if:

You’re [...]

Colleagues in the office were just talking about mobile phone contracts.
“I have seen one for £27 per month that looked reasonable”
That’s three hundred and twenty four pounds per year.
Earlier this month I downloaded my bank transactions and put them into Gnucash. It was easy to calculate how much I spent on my pay-as you go [...]

A luxury kitchen advert opposite hundreds of Filipinos forced from their homes by typhoons. I wonder if the Guardian Weekend editors do this deliberately? The article about  climate-conference negotiator Bernarditas de Castro Muller gives a great inside view on the COP15 conference in Copenhangen in December.
Three things we can do together to help:
Sign the petition: [...]

In a surprising departure, these adverts for Windoze 7 do not contain the word “Microsoft”. The web address at the bottom is windows.co.uk which redirects to www.microsoft.com/uk/windows. Is this to disassociate the corporation from the mysterious “They” who “improved security” at the bidding whoever’s voice the advert is in — presumably the guy in [...]

Today, Gordon Brown writes:
Sarah and I are trying to do our bit. In Downing Street, we are composting, recycling, using energy-saving light bulbs and buying locally-sourced and sustainable food whenever possible. It’s little things like this which will make a big difference if we all do them.
David Miliband is less practical:
There will have to be [...]