Is this thing on?

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Eleven people died and thousands were taken to hospital with breathing difficulties after a swarm of grasshoppers invaded a town in central Sudan, the government-owned Al-Anbaa newspaper  [more...]

My Powerbook is about to be wrapped carefully in plastic and dispatched in an Airborne Express box to the mothership. If I had a pet name for my laptop, like Betsy, I’d be saying “Oh, how I will miss Betsy  [more...]

I’m ashamed of myself now for that last post. Unlike talking to someone in real life, I can take back what I said on the blog just by deleting the entry. But I’ll let it stand as evidence of my lack of  [more...]