Psst… do you know ebXML?
I have a Geekcorps project on the beautiful border between Kenya and Uganda, right near where I went whitewater rafting on the Nile, which requires a Systems Integration Geek for four months starting in May, 2005.
Read MoreI am an American Consumer
Its Saturday afternoon, and I am about as far from African Happy as I can be. I am still happy, mind you, but in a way only an American can be, happy in a way an African might only dream of, happy in a way I know you can relate to.
Read MoreTwenty Hours of Travel
Bridget Jones is on the telle, doing her thing for the second time, this time with Dutch subtitles. I’m in 31C, laptop out doing my thing, writing my website while hurtling through time and space at some ungodly speed. Now over the Atlantic, soon to be in Washington DC, with Saharan sand still staining my shirt.
Read MoreCall yourself a commuter?
Somewhere in Queens, Sylvester stopped the cab and turned round. “You wearing suspenders?” he asked. When roused at 5am, usually by a tearful child in London, I rub my eyes. But this was midnight on the Van Wyck Expressway, suburban New York. I rubbed my ears. Suspenders? Sylvester, a yellow cab veteran, sighed. “You know, suspenders, to hold up your pants.”
Read MoreWoohoo, I’m going to West Africa!
I really don’t know how I go this lucky. How I could find a job that (so far) I love so much. Not only do I get to talk technology all day long to people excited about it, but I get to send hard-core geeks on all-expenses paid trips to Joe-cool countries. Yeah, its not hard to convince that nerdy IT guy lurking in the depths of your company’s server room to spend four months in sunny Senegal, talking to other geeks who will hang on his every word and copy his every move.
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