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Emeka Okafor introduces Ghanaian economist George Ayittey as the inspiration for his blogging career, especially for the creation of his Africa Unchained blog, named after one of Ayittey’s books. Ayittey, Okafor notes, has a reputation as a troublemaker, and he strides onto stage asking, “Do you think Africans would put together a conference like this? The AU? They’d still be asking for foreign aid.”

I received a few comments on part 3 of this little mini-series and I just wanted to address them. While doing this I still want the main functions of the parser parseXxx to read like the maps file itself. That means I want to avoid “reversing order” like thenChar and thenSpace did in part2. I also don’t want to hide things, e.g. I don’t want to introduce a function that turns (a <* char ' ') <*> b into a <#> b.

Well, I suppose I’ve had a (not quite so) brief hiatus from blogging, and it’s time to come back into the fold.

I’ve been looking for a good GNU/Linux thin-client for my employer, a school district in the US. We have scores of aging desktops (primarily Intel PII 350 MHz and PIII 800 MHz systems) and looking more into the mobile arena for most computing needs. We currently utilize Citrix’s MetaFrame Presentation Server for most client applications, so we could substitute the current Windows XP OS for GNU/Linux.

It’s for the children.

• Charles Kenny: Is Africa a Failure? Really excellent short paper by Charles Kenny arguing that Africa’s successes in increasing maternal and child health overshadow shortcomings in economic development

A flexible taxonomy navigation and display solution using panels.

DebConf kicks off in less than a week (at least for the organisers) and I still don't have broadband at home. I'm typing this whilst sitting in a furniture shop around the corner from my house, where there are some open wifi points within range, which is what I've had to do for the last three or four IRC meetings and at various points in the weekends.

Organising conferences is hard!