Uganda: A little goes a long way

Considering the approaching birthday of Kiva.org I thought I will post this little video here – I found it on causecast.org

The full story of Uganda: A little goes a long way can be found on the website of Frontlineworld, and there you can find the full length video – but that site does not allow embedding, and the stream is slow and freezes every few seconds, so I got it from causecast.org instead.

Some thoughts on the UML Sequence Diagram

Earlier this year I had an interesting talk about sequence diagrams. The topic was asynchronous messages and how UML models them. As I find the topic interesting, I thought I will write a bit about that. So how does UML models asynchronous messages, and how can you tell from a sequence diagram if a message [...]

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Running on a new WP theme

I have fallen for the recommendations, and bought and installed the Headway Theme Finally, got it working too. It is easy, everything is a snap, except when you have want to make some really “fancy” thing on your site – like the Video Posts on the right -, then it’s php coding. Or when it [...]

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The Wizard of Waukesha has left the stage

Image via Wikipedia The Wizard of Waukesha, Lester William Polfuss has left the stage. But not before he gave us the Les Paul , the first multi-track recording, the world’s first commercially-produced reel-to-reel audio tape recorder and a lot of good music. Your guitar – or at least a cheaper version – gave me countless [...]

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What can you learn from the Nac Mac Feegle

Image via Wikipedia The Wee Free Men. The Nac Mac Feegle. The ones who have been expelled from Fairy Land – after breaking up the place for the thousandth time. They steal, they drink, they fight, and are mortally afraid of their names being written down – ’cause of the lawyers you know. They are [...]

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