It’s all online now

While looking at Google maps the other day for directions, I took a detour and looked for the place that I lived in Kenya for a couple of years. Sure enough, there it is! Right on the B6 (I didn’t know that road had a name), just to the east of Mt. Kenya. If you [...]

Tag clouds

The other day I learned of a cool online program that’ll make tag clouds out of any text string, in any shape. A tag cloud is a shape filled with words, with the words individually sized based on how often they occur in a body of text. Confusing to say, easier to show. When I [...]

A Couple Years in Kenya

From May 2004 to July 2006, I lived in Kenya. I worked on HIV/AIDS, income generation, and appropriate technologies projects with the U.S. Peace Corps. It was an awesome experience, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I made a lot of new friends – both volunteers and Kenyans – and learned first hand how most [...]