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Sita Sings the Blues

By Alan on May 28, 2010

Has anyone seen the movie Sita Sings the Blues? It’s an animated full-length movie which has some interesting ideas behind it; a note from the artist on the official website: I hereby give Sita Sings the Blues to you. Like all culture, it belongs to you already, but I am making it explicit with a [...]

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Posted in Miscellaneous, Rants | Tagged Creative Commons, FLOSS, Free, Freedom, GPL, Linux, Movies, Open Source, Rants, Sita Sings the Blues, technology | Leave a response

RSG Seminar a Success

By Alan on April 19, 2010

Here’s a group photo from the Introduction to Linux seminar I gave last weekend. The seminar was held at ILRI, Nairobi on April 17th. The Regional Students Group of East Africa seems to be very active in Kenya (especially at ILRI, where the seminar was organized). The intended audience of the seminar was students doing [...]

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Posted in Kenya, Teaching | Tagged Class, ILRI, Kenya, Linux, RSG, Seminar, Students, Teaching, technology | 9 Responses

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Seminar: Introduction to Linux

By Alan on April 14, 2010

I’m giving a seminar on the Linux operating system at ILRI on Saturday, April 17th. The audience is around thirty aspiring bioinformaticians from the Regional Students Group of East Africa. Most of the participants are from Kenya, but we’ve had confirmations from students in Uganda and Cameroon as well. I haven’t taught since I left [...]

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Posted in Kenya, Teaching | Tagged Bioinformatics, Electricity, ILRI, Java House, Kenya, Linux, Nairobi, Sarit, Seminar, Stima, Teaching, technology, Uthiru, Westlands | 4 Responses

Reflections

By Alan on January 22, 2010

It’s hard to believe that five months ago I was living in Tala, working as a VSO volunteer. Life was good then, simple; I was living in a rural area of Kenya, hakuna matata (no problems). I didn’t particularly enjoy teaching, but I loved my colleagues and the pole pole (slow) life was easy to [...]

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Posted in Kenya | Tagged Holy Rosary, ILRI, Kenya, Kiswahili, Linux, Nairobi, Swahili, Tala, Teaching, technology, Theileria parva, Tparva, Uthiru, VSO, work | 2 Responses

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