Christmas Update
I know I’ve been out of communication for over a week, but it’s with good reason. I’ve been traveling all over Kenya for various goodbye parties, circumcision ceremonies, and Christmas celebrations. Here’s the breakdown: Saturday, December 20th: Maasai village called Enkokidongoi for a goodbye party for a few friends. Sunday, December 21st: Back to Tala [...]
Hii Ni Nini?
So my new phone has a camera, but you know how camera phone are. It’s no replacement for my digital camera that recently broke, but I can take pictures of bugs and stuff around the house. Now let’s play “Hii ni nini” (what is this)! I found these in the market the other day. They’re [...]
Alan Battles Malaria
Yesterday I was very sick. Today I went to the doctor and a blood test showed that I have plasmodium malariae. So now I am among the billions of malaria-infected people in the world. In retrospect it really wasn’t all that bad, just a lot of diarrhea. Other than the the obvious annoyance of having [...]
WordPress 2.7 Upgrade
I upgraded this blog to the latest WordPress version (2.7). The only change that you’ll notice is a new “threaded comment” functionality which allows you to reply to other comments. I had to make some small tweaks to the site’s theme to enable the new comment stuff. I suppose this would also be a good [...]
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