It’s [Not] About Cambodia

For those of you who may be new to this blog, here is a little hint: it’s about Cambodia. Sometimes I stretch the definition a bit but that’s what you’re going to get. I get emails: people request I ’save hungry children’ or ’share important information’. These are from businesses, associations, even nonprofits too! What they want [...]

Bloggin’ Weekend Roundup

While we were preparing for our Phnom Penh meeting, another online crew over at Girls With Macs were voting on Cambodia alumni Michaela’s T-Shirt Design.  She’s running a marathon to raise money for Mit Samlanh and has raised nearly $1000 via her blog! (Not too late to donate!) BarCamp was lots of fun, and Thomas did [...]

Kill Your Email: BarCamp Phnom Penh Presentation

Kill Your Email You will need Flash for this. The presentation is really a ‘teaser’ to get Cambodian techies (most are quite literate in English) to check out the Inbox Zero series and related ideas. For BarCampPhnomPenh. Linkage: http://delicious.com/slugdog/emailninja BarCamp Phnom Penh updates: http://www.technorati.com/tag/barcamppp Tags: cambodia,GTD,khmer,43folders,email,weblog,barcampphnompenh,BarCampPhnomPenh,barcamppp

Messages and Messengers

I missed The Messenger Band at Meta-House, but Andy Brouwer didn’t. They’ve now released an (internet only?) song that talks about the growing issue of evictions in Cambodia, at http://saveboeungkak.wordpress.com. My two cents? It may well be too late to  ’save’ the lake, but maybe the residents can still try to get some decent compensation. For the record, [...]

Anthropomorphic Cannibalism in Cambodia

Remember kids, there’s meat, and then there’s HAM. Cambodia is not the easiest place to keep kosher or halal. It seems like there is no Khmer dish that can’t be improved without a little pork - even coffee. Photo Wednesday picture from Pencil Supermarket, Phnom Penh, Norodom Boulevard. One of the reasons I carry a phone [...]