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Visualizing Kiva’s Microfinancing
What happens when you depict a microloan as a tiny speck of light on a world map, going from one country to another? And then you multiply that by 620,000 lenders and 615,000 borrowers who were microfinanced via the innovative organization Kiva (kiva.org)? Check out this creation by Kiva on Vimeo which depicts five+ years…
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African Water Scorpion?
Today we came across the largest “digging scorpion” I’ve seen so far – about 3.5 inches or so from “nose” to tail. They burrow down in our garden, and this one apparently decided to burrow down into our pool. Apparently 1.5 meters of chlorinated water is no big deal for a scorpion, as he was…
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Sandboarding. Swakopmund. Sony Vegas
For years, I’ve been editing with versions of Adobe Premiere and Premiere Elements, and the one complaint I’ve always had is its tendency to lock up on most computers. The exception has been my old desktop running XP with 512 MB memory – but even there, I’ve got to restart the computer after I finish…
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Spring has Sprung in Windhoek
Spring is definitely in the air in Namibia. Â At least that’s what my daughter tells me – she informed me that September 1 was “spring day”. Â Apparently in South Africa and Namibia, it’s not the 21st that heralds the coming of spring, but the 1st of September. Â And given the weather these days, it’s not…
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Wildlife through a Loupe – Micro goes Macro
For my latest video, I noticed I had gradually been collecting random footage of “micro-wildlife” I have come across while working in my new garden here in Windhoek. One of the creatures I had been continually running across is the millipede. These guys are everywhere, coiled up under the soil, perhaps waiting for cool weather…