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	<title>Hujambo!</title>
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	<description>Alan volunteering with VSO in Tala, Kenya</description>
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		<title>More Music From East Africa&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted about music in Kenya several times&#8230; There&#8217;s a lot of talent in Kenya, guys!  East Africa in general has such a diverse range of music.  Just hop in a matatu in Nairobi and you&#8217;ll hear some crazy beats booming.  These two artists are a bit old, so most Kenyans have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/28/more-music-from-east-africa</link>
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		<title>Lethal Dose of Valium For Dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spam on the Internet is a reality.  It&#8217;s all automated these days; computers crawl the net looking for places to post their garbage.  Most of it is related to drugs.  You usually see it in your e-mail or in the comments section of some blog articles you happen upon.  I get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/28/lethal-dose-of-valium-for-dogs</link>
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		<title>The King of Tala&#8217;s Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This goat is the king of Tala&#8217;s market (or at least he walks around like he owns the place).  I&#8217;m not sure how old it is, but I&#8217;ve been seeing him for nearly two years now.  That means it has lasted through at least two Christmas and two Easter feasts.  A colleague [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/25/the-king-of-talas-market</link>
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		<title>The Crappy Tala-Kangundo Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tala-Kangundo highway from Nairobi is terrible.  It seems as if the road is in a constant state of decline.  I find myself often commenting to strangers, &#8220;Hii bara bara ni mbaya sana&#8221; (&#8221;this road is very bad&#8221;), it&#8217;s a great ice breaker.  We laugh and speculate about whether someone will tengeneza [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/22/the-crappy-tala-kangundo-road</link>
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		<title>Lawn Mowing in Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, there is no such thing as &#8220;lawn mowing&#8221; in Kenya (gotcha!).  Second, unless you&#8217;re the the President of Kenya or the US Ambassador (they live in mansions with big lawns), there aren&#8217;t even any lawns to speak of.  That&#8217;s not to say we don&#8217;t have grass.  My goodness, there is grass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/11/lawn-mowing-in-kenya</link>
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		<title>Scorpion!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I posted back in April how the rains had come, and that I expected to get a lot of new friends in the house because of it.  Well the rains have been scarce, but I think that post served as an invitation of sorts, because I&#8217;ve had some creepy crawlies.  I saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/08/scorpion</link>
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		<title>Jesus Christ Is Coming&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So look busy!  Errr, get ready for the end of the world!  I saw this message on the back of a car while walking down Moi Avenue in Nairobi today.  Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you!

The Swahili on the bottom says Yesu yu aja! (&#8221;Jesus is coming!&#8221;).  So you&#8217;d better jipange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/03/jesus-christ-is-coming</link>
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		<title>Crazy People Are Crazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a holiday, Madaraka Day, so I didn&#8217;t have to work.  I spent the morning and the better part of the afternoon listening to loud music, cooking fried rice, and making notes for my class tomorrow.  By the time I walked to the market it was almost 4:00 pm.  There&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/01/crazy-people-are-crazy</link>
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		<title>Job Hunting&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The college where I work runs a small Internet café, and people from Tala and the surrounding areas come to browse the net.  I always see people checking their e-mail, browsing Facebook, etc, but about once a month I see someone applying for military contracting jobs with companies like Blackwater and KBR.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/05/29/job-hunting</link>
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		<title>FFmpeg, Linux, 3gp, Nokia, and you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have a relatively-new Nokia phone it should be able to play videos, which is totally sweet.  Any video that you can play on the computer can be converted to a format that your phone can play; videos from YouTube, VCD, SVCD, DVD, XviD, etc.  All you need is FFmpeg (I use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/05/27/ffmpeg-linux-3gp-nokia-and-you</link>
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