I didn’t realize I hadn’t posted this yet. Sorry about that!
(Everyone else’s stuff seems so much more interesting than my own 🙂
This is just me talking about how I got involved with Brewster and the Internet Bookmobile on its maiden voyage to the Eldred Argument in Washington DC.
Lisa Rein At Etech 2003 (Small – 5 MB)
Darned Good Intelligence (Small – 3 MB)
The Daily Show (The best news on television.)
I don’t know what to make of any of this yet. At first glance, it looks like we’re looking for an excuse to set up a base in Africa — but like I said — I don’t know nuthin’ about African politics or the history behind the current conflicts over there.
I just know I want to track the situation, and that I don’t want to mix this stuff in with the domestic policy issues going on at my Shrub Watch category.
Daily Show On The Shrub In Africa (Small – 9 MB)
The Daily Show (The best news on television.)
Day 11
After our final goodbyes at the Library we hopped on our train for Cairo to leave the next morning. The train ride was again very beautiful and Cairo was, again, very hot, noisy and smoggy. After some dinner near the American University in Cairo we made our way through one of the crazy Cairo bazaars and headed back to the Mayfair hotel to get some rest.
Photo Below: Ashley (middle) Saying Goodby to Khalid (to his left) and Youssef (on his right).
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a.k.a – Domain names – How the mess came about
or
“How the Nerds Were Having A Perfectly Good Time Until The Businesspeople And Lawyers Showed Up And Ruined Everything”
This is a tag team lecture by Jonathan Zittrain and Terry Fisher which covers the entire history of domain names from the beginning of the Internet to the present day.
Jonathan and Terry – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 60 MB)
Jonathan and Terry – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 54 MB)
Jonathan and Terry – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 50 MB)
Jonathan and Terry – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 52 MB)
I don’t have any notes for this section, but I do have a ton of pictures.
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Howard Lovy’s NanoBot
(Thanks, David.)
This from last April’s O’Reilly Etech 2003 Conference.
Speaker: Ben Hammersley
Title: Mailing Lits Bots, Kinda
Ben Hammersley – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 40 MB)
Ben Hammersley – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 35 MB)
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Day 10
We met a bit later today (10am) since it is still the weekend and wanted to let the IT Team (Khalid, Youssef, and Mohammed to get some rest over their break.
We expected a relatively slow day–which it turned out to be– of printing books and ironing out bugs. We found out a bit later the almost-mythical Director of the Library– Dr. Seregaldine would be coming to take a look at the station. The Director was a former higher-up in the World Bank, speaks more languages than there are days of the week, and has earned Ph.D.s in more than one field, in addition to the honorary Ph.D.’s that universities around the world have given him.
We kept hearing that he was on his way down (the library’s office space is a conceptual pyramid of heirarchy, with the most important and most modern departments (eg Information & Computing Technology on the 3rd of 4 floors) on the top, working down to the most traditional departments (eg rare manuscripts in one of the ‘basements’).
After about 4 hours of waiting the Director swept into the room with a couple assistants, the head librarian, and the director of ICT in tow. He was really thrilled with the setup and promised to find money for the mobile unit’s vehicle. He described the setup as “fabulous” and commented that “the dream [of printing books from digital copies which Brewster had spoken about at the Library in October] has become a reality”.
Day 9
Today, being the beginning of the Egyptian weekend, we all took the day off.
The filmmakers arrived back in Alex last nite and we warbled around the city getting some great footage of people in the streets shopping, eating, smoking shisha and getting married (the poorer people in the city throw great wedding parties in the street, everyone dancing and singing and no one getting blindly drunk — which is really refreshing to see).
We were all feeling a little ill so we ended up sitting on the Corniche (the seafront) eating sandwiches at one of the fancy hotels called the Windsor Hotel.
Photo Below: One Final Shot Of Library Exterior
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Day 8
Today was relatviely uneventful. I worked with the library’s Graphics department to design the signage for the printing station in the library.
Given the station’s assembly line which goes from the huge printer on the left side (when facing the setup) to the smaller equipment to the right, I designed a signage layout that includes a large portrait-oriented poster on the very right of the setup (behind it in front of the plate windows) followed by 3 smaller square posters to the left with a picture of a girl doing each of the bookmaking steps.
We got the library’s professional photographer to take photographs of the girl (a student who was reading in the Children’s Library (…sorry for the interuption) printing, cutting, and binding an imaginary book.
