My friend Andrew Heavens has been engaged in a great adventure – installing Ubuntu on one of his laptops in Addis Ababa. He’s found it… Read More »Ubuntu, and the ongoing difficulty of marketing free beer
A year ago Thursday, Rachel and I were getting ready to go out for the evening, to our friends’ house. We’d just gotten back from… Read More »Dick Sabot, 1944-2005
BBC NEWS | Africa | Call for DR Congo election delay Opposition candidates are calling for delays in the Congo elections. And the printing of… Read More »links for 2006-07-07
I’ve been home – which is to say in the northeastern United States, if not in Berkshire County – since June 19th. That’s a long… Read More »A Korean de Tocqueville, and rediscovering my own back yard
Scientific publishing | Creative destruction in the library | Economist.com Economist has a good overview of some of the issues and progress with open access… Read More »links for 2006-07-06
In 1993, economic geographer Richard Auty coined the term “resource curse” to identify a paradox: nations with great natural resources often suffer underdevelopment compared with… Read More »DR Congo and the Resource Curse