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This blog will contain all things Amran. Check out this page to see who Amran is, and why he writes about himself in the third person.

We’re running a summer program at the YMCA for kids (from 5 to 18 years old) using the edubuntu Linux distribution, and it’s proving to be very interesting.
The kids are divided into three sessions: 5-11 year-olds, 12-16 year-olds, and 17-18 year-olds. The 5 to 11s, as to be expected, simply want to play games all […]

My first Panography. Yes I know, not very good, but there’s always an attachment to the firstborn. Click on it to get the full view.

Found this in the back of right choice supermarket today, on a dusty shelf. A whole collection of them - witches and wizards casting spells and flying around on broomsticks and calling forth manifestations from the spirit realm. I only managed to grab this one, but I’m definitely going back for more. She reminds me […]

Check out http://www.bookmooch.com. really neat concept (give away the books you don’t need anymore, in return for other ones), really great programming (eg. you can add books by searching for them on amazon, then simply one-click importing them into your inventory). It depends, of cours, on people using it and honoring the requests they get, […]

They speak of the witch of the long embers, who lives in a tree in Haddington, and attacks unwary strangers in the night, after the Maghrib prayer. They are not clear about exactly what she does to you when she attacks, for no one who has ever seen her has ever been beheld again by […]

I wrote this function today to check a form for whether fields marked obligatory have bee
n filled, before sending it off to the server. It needs the prototype javascript library installed and already included in the page you want to include this in.
function checkOblig(){
var oblig_fields = $$(’.obligatory’); // Get all obligatory […]

So we finally finished the edubuntu summer camp, and had a ‘graduation ceremony’. We told the parents about Free and Open Source Software, and burnt edubuntu live CDs for them to take home and run on their own PCs.
All in all, it wasn’t a bad summer camp - the kids went away with a lot […]

I discovered this website [http://www.freeafrica.org/] today which contains quite a lot of interesting essays about Africa, and African government and politics.

We held our first gambiahackers meeting/conference last week. It allowed a few of us to get together, and have a few talks about computer-related topics. You can find out more (including downloading the talks themselves) here.