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• Total TOTO on A Series of Tubes

  04 July 2009 in Internet, Notes, Project TOTO

  Richard Chirgwin decided to devote almost the entire edition of his A Series of Tubes podcast to Project TOTO. It’s now online for your listening pleasure. As Richard puts it, “One word of warning: calling Tanzania involves a game of count-the-codec: there’s Stil’s mobile, followed by a satellite link (I edited out the delays), followed [...]

• The Poverty Web

  03 July 2009 in Project TOTO

  This is Juma Hassan lila Kalibu, secretary of Kilimani village in Zanzibar, showing off the village school’s new computer room. As you can see, it has no computers. Or electricity. Or desks. Or chairs. Or anything, really.
  When I visited this village last Sunday as part of ActionAid Australia’s Project TOTO — this school is one [...]

• Where in the World is Stilgherrian?

  01 July 2009 in Project TOTO

  If you haven’t been following my Twitter stream you may wonder where I’ve been. Well, right this moment I’m in Singida in northern Tanzania, sitting at a desk in ActionAid’s district office here. All is going well with Project TOTO.
  Today (D5) we’ve drove north from the capital Dodoma, headed for Mwanza on Lake Victoria. I [...]

• So this is Windows Live Writer…

  25 June 2009 in Internet, Project TOTO

  This is a quick post to confirm that I can create blog post from the little netbook I’ll be using while travelling. Nick Hodge reckons I should try Windows Live Writer ‘cos it does all the right things to speak to WordPress.
  So far it seems to work OK. I like the idea that I can [...]

• First ActionAid blog online

  25 June 2009 in Project TOTO

  Before Project TOTO takes me to Tanzania — in just 20 hours — I had to get ActionAid Australia’s blogs online. Done! With, oh, hours to spare!
  Stressed much? Oh yes!
  Archie@ActionAid is the new personal blog of CEO Archie Law. His first post, From Melbourne to New York, Phnom Penh, Johannesburg and back, reveals his not-very-secret [...]