Computing and Internet

You Can’t Trust People in Africa

by Eddie 06.07.2010

At least that’s what PayPal and other online companies seem to think. I haven’t been able to use PayPal for two months. I just got profiled for extra security measures on Facebook. I can’t make certain purchases from Africa. Few organizations ship goods to me here. Let’s be honest; living in Africa, or being African, [...]

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Six Years of Facebook

by Eddie 01.06.2010
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Media and Mission

by Eddie 28.05.2010

An interesting 15 minute presentation from my mate, Phil. Learning, growing and sharing: The use of Media in Mission View more webinars from Phil Prior.

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Essay Writing Service

by Eddie 12.02.2010

Since I wrote a post on language learning a few days back, we have been targeted by spam comments  from essay writing services. Normally I wouldn’t want to advertise this sort of thing, but then again, some Kouya Chronicle reader may have a need for the sort of high quality essays that these people provide. [...]

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Life is For Sharing

by Eddie 14.03.2009

British TV viewers or YouTube addicts might recognise the title of this post as the tag line for T-Mobile in the UK, and also as the closing image in a recent TV advert. If you’ve not seen this one, take a minute to watch the video. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3d3KigPQM[/youtube] Just on a technical level I think this [...]

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Scripture Engagement Website

by Eddie 08.01.2009

The Forum of Bible Agencies has launched a new website today called Scripture Engagement: Encountering God’s Word in Life Changing Ways. The content and focus of the site is primarily on resources produced by and for field Bible translators working in minority languages. This means that most of the resources available on the site can [...]

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Communications Conference

by Eddie 06.11.2008

This is a rather relaxed conference, which is rather nice. Yesterday afternoon we sat outside in the shade rather than in a conference room. The view from where we were sitting was stunning. Today we had to sit indoors because we were having a video conference with colleagues in the US. We used Skype for [...]

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African Innovation

by Eddie 29.10.2008

As a botanist, I remember that we used to talk a lot about hybrid vigour: the strength that came from mixing two strains of a crop. This video from HASH gives an excellent human example of hybrid vigour as he straddles two cultures and exhibits the strength of both. The mixture of optimism, good sense [...]

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Internet in Africa

by Eddie 09.09.2008

The Times has an interesting article about Google funding a new internet service for sub-Saharan Africa. Google has teamed up with John Malone, the media billionaire, and HSBC on a venture that will offer internet access to three billion people in Africa and other emerging markets as the US search engine continues to expand its [...]

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Spam Bait

by Eddie 09.08.2008

Sky News has a list of the ten people whose names are used to attract people to read spam email. These are people who are apparently so attractive that we will be unable to resist their names in the subject line and we will open up emails containing viruses and other nasties. The top three [...]

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Wordles

by Eddie 17.06.2008

Not everyone likes the tag cloud that we have the sidebar of this blog: those who don’t will probably not be impressed by Wordle which is a tool to turn any text into a graphic where the size of the word reflects its frequency in the text. This is from my post Is the Age [...]

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Computers: Ugh

by Eddie 02.04.2006

It’s been a bad week for computers chez Arthur. After months of humming and ha-ing and inspired by Dave’s return for the Easter break, I decided that it was time to upgrade the desktop that we use for printing and backups. We bought a new motherboard and processor for the desktop; the idea being that [...]

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