So from tomorrow January 18, Wikipedia will join many other websites in a blackout to protest laws being proposed in the US Congress and Senate to crackdown on online piracy. For several hours, Wikipedia and services like Boing Boing and Reddit, will not be available. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the US Congress, […]
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Christmas Thoughts: One Hole Could Save My Village – And 7 Billion Africans Too
In October the world population passed the 7 billion mark. Africa’s population too hit one billion in mid-2011. Thinking of this from Africa, a continent that has known some horrific famines in recent decades, perhaps the first question is how will all these people be fed? In my native Uganda, for example, the National Environmental […]
