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Busy Time. Now.
Jun. 25th, 2003 09:57 amI've pinched the subject title from a recent post by Unsworn. Who incidently owes me a third question in that interview meme ;-)
But it has been busy time of late. For the first time in weeks I had some company in the house, some visitors from the Australian Dental Association trying to distribute some equipment here. To say the least, the little of what exists as a dental program here has a few issues with things like sterilization of equipment. Regretfully, I've heard that Mike whom I used to share the house with and has been an active helper of East Timor (and Papua New Guinea, and the Solomons and Australian indigenous communities etc etc) for years now hasn't really recovered from the dengue fever her caught. It looks like his help of people in the tropics has come to an end. He'll certainly be missed.
The Portuguese version of the Computer Users Manual has been completed and now it's a case of sticking the graphics in the right place and sending it off to be printed. Hopefully the Bahasa version will be completed soon as well, whereupon I'll replicate the process, send it all back to the UNDP and the training programme will begin.
The past several days of thesis writing has seen the production of some 8,000 words which isn't really sufficient if I want to finish by my self-imposed deadline. It has been very difficult mental work however, dealing with methodological approaches of communication and communications technology that is supposed to account for 40,000 years of the species and in a manner that's relevant to contemporary technologies. In the process I must say I've really enjoyed re-reading Frederich Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific", for being both insightful and extraordinarily flawed and "The Origins of Family, Private Property and the State", which really has stood the test of time.
In other news, Octavia visited with Vicky the other night to prepare and cook some food for a dinner meeting with several border patrol commandants and related bureaucrats. In the process he decided to help himself to my collection of beer. Having knocked that off, he went to Vicky's sister's restaurant and tried to claim that Vicky had sent him to collect a further ten crates of beer and soft-drink. Fortunately the restaurant contacted Vicky to ensure that she had placed the order, which of course she hadn't.
I think Octavia has a problem with alcohol. Like he can't get enough of it ;-)
But it has been busy time of late. For the first time in weeks I had some company in the house, some visitors from the Australian Dental Association trying to distribute some equipment here. To say the least, the little of what exists as a dental program here has a few issues with things like sterilization of equipment. Regretfully, I've heard that Mike whom I used to share the house with and has been an active helper of East Timor (and Papua New Guinea, and the Solomons and Australian indigenous communities etc etc) for years now hasn't really recovered from the dengue fever her caught. It looks like his help of people in the tropics has come to an end. He'll certainly be missed.
The Portuguese version of the Computer Users Manual has been completed and now it's a case of sticking the graphics in the right place and sending it off to be printed. Hopefully the Bahasa version will be completed soon as well, whereupon I'll replicate the process, send it all back to the UNDP and the training programme will begin.
The past several days of thesis writing has seen the production of some 8,000 words which isn't really sufficient if I want to finish by my self-imposed deadline. It has been very difficult mental work however, dealing with methodological approaches of communication and communications technology that is supposed to account for 40,000 years of the species and in a manner that's relevant to contemporary technologies. In the process I must say I've really enjoyed re-reading Frederich Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific", for being both insightful and extraordinarily flawed and "The Origins of Family, Private Property and the State", which really has stood the test of time.
In other news, Octavia visited with Vicky the other night to prepare and cook some food for a dinner meeting with several border patrol commandants and related bureaucrats. In the process he decided to help himself to my collection of beer. Having knocked that off, he went to Vicky's sister's restaurant and tried to claim that Vicky had sent him to collect a further ten crates of beer and soft-drink. Fortunately the restaurant contacted Vicky to ensure that she had placed the order, which of course she hadn't.
I think Octavia has a problem with alcohol. Like he can't get enough of it ;-)