It’s that blog awards time again. The Bloggies are up, and does anyone else feel they are just a bit dull? The winners are: Best Blog Application: Blogger.Best Asian Blog: Tokyo GirlBest ANZAC Blog: LoobyluBest Middle Eastern Blog: Baghdad BurningBest European Blog: My Boyfriend is a TwatBest UK/Irish Blog: Girl with a One-Track MindBest Latin…
Read More A Staid and Ossified EliteUltra-dodgy securico CusterBattles’s rampant Iraq corruption seems finally to have caught up with them to the tune of $10 million.
Read More Custer’s Last StandNMS Communications chap Brough Turner has an interesting set of photos up on installing a base station in Nigeria. With a VSAT satellite terminal for the backhaul and solar panels, it’s a complete drop-in infrastructure…
Read More HOWTO Build a Nigerian Node-BAfter the Kenyan censorblitz crisis, a curious story from the Nairobi Nation via AllAfrica.com. Apparently some poor chap turned up, bleeding, near a house occupied by mysterious white foreigners regularly visited by vehicles with GK- plates (i.e. Government of Kenya). Sez he’s been bitten by a dog. Locals say he’s dusting crops where there ain’t…
Read More Kenyan Weirdness: Plot ThickensA long, grim report from the New York Times on Iraq – tortured corpses littering the streets, ethnic cleansing, 11-year-old gunboys building roadblocks, teenage checkpoints, lynchings, the full Lebanese monty. But this is really bizarre: Across town in a busy shopping area in western Baghdad, a 15-minute gun battle broke out between security guards, more…
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