You might be wondering why there have been no updates to this blog and whether I have already lost appetite for the topic. The main reason is: I needed a break. Not so much from this blog but from anything that was work related.
Archive for the ‘Off topic’ Category
After listening to a 45 minute piece on BBC 4 called “Haiti and the truth about NGOs” I had to get a few things off my chest.
I’m probably the last person who doesn’t have an iPhone or Android phone yet – and I also want to keep it that way. At the same time I was always a bit jealous of the connectivity that comes with these smart phones. Then I discovered what I had been looking for all the time: I wireless router small enough to fit into a pocket.
While taking the bus to work yesterday, I noticed the woman next to me reading this paper. And I just had to take a photo! As anyone who has working in the humanitarian sector knows, our love for acronyms is pretty ridiculous. In Haiti we even printed the most important ones on the back of t-shirts so that we could look them up more easily. The problem was – most of the changed so quickly that the t-shirt production couldn’t[...]
This is a rant. If you are not interested in reading rants, mosey along … I love the fact that email is almost instant and free, but I’m wondering whether – at least within big companies – we shouldn’t introduce email stamps. I’m serious. Recently it seems like that for every email I’m sending I’m getting four or five emails back. I’m being buried under an absolute relentless onslaught of emails. And I’m not the only one. I have spoken[...]
Knowing when to leave can be a difficult thing. Here are a few signs that might indicate it’s time for you to pack your bags and run for the nearest airport.
You’re an aid worker with 10+ years experience under your belt. You earn a pittance but it works for you because you are non-resident at home so you don’t pay tax, you are catered for on assignment so you don’t pay rent,and your mortgage is covered by the people renting your place because you are never there. Welcome to your future – these are your life options …
I hadn’t been following the news recently, so I was genuinely surprised when I saw “Google Buzz” in my Gmail dashboard today. My first impression is: this could work for me. But not as a replacement of Twitter. I rather see it as something to replace FriendFeed. I have to admit – I never really got the hang of FriendFeed. While I want a service or an application that helps me to aggregate different forms of information streams, I don’t[...]
