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Posted
15 November 2007 @ 9am

Categories
Tech, Travel

Vanuatu’s new technical library

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! A giant thank you to all the geeks who donated books to Vanuatu. Here’s a photo of the results:

I carried these back to Vanuatu in my checked luggage: one box (ex copying paper) taped to within an [...]


Posted
19 October 2007 @ 8am

Categories
Tech, Travel

Technical books for Vanuatu

Vanuatu’s a bloody long way from anywhere.

It’s hard to realise how far until you come to visit, and people start asking you to bring things. “Can you buy me a pair of Tevas?” asked Dan. One of his friends who’s installing a security system asked me to pick up some [...]


Posted
14 June 2007 @ 8pm

Categories
Books

Bookmooch

Heard of BookMooch? I was recently introduced to it via the London Perl Mongers mailing list. It’s one of several book-sharing services around, the best-known of which, I guess, is BookCrossing. But unlike BookCrossing, which centres around people dropping off books in public places, BookMooch matches up people who’ve got books [...]