I am day three into being a father of a 4 month old, half malian, half harrier pup called Gizmo after the Gremlin (look at the size of those ears!) Despite a couple of sleepness nights, she’s been a good pup and I think has been treated well from the family I got her from. She’s already house broken so I can’t complain about that! I’ve also noticed that for the first time, I haven’t felt the urgle to check my email BEFORE going to work at 8AM. I think this responsibility thing is going to be good for me. If you have any advice on how to raise a pup please send it my way!

Gizmo the Geekcorps Dog

The Hamatan is a northern wind which blows dust down from the Sahara marking the beginning of the dry aka “hot” season. We have been very fortunate actually in that this has been the first Hamatan. Normally, in Bamako we would have already have had several between January and now. Regardless, it is quite a spectacal and the pictures really don’t capture how thick the dust is. It is hard to breathe, you feel congested, everything you touch is caked with microfine dust. It’s a reminder that even though we live in a city like Bamako we are not far from the fringe of an ever advancing desert.

Biz 2.0 Article Update
I managed to get an actual scan of the article.

In the past couple of days, Geekcorps has been featured in a number of national news publications including Business 2.0 and C-Net.

While full of some factual errors, it’s still pretty cool to have our work recognized. If you pick up the March Business 2.0 issue you may even get to see my ugly mug.

• Business 2.0 - A Peacecorps for Generation Net
• C-Net - Geekcorps: A Peacecorps for Techies

While perhaps not AS exciting, USAID has also featured the work of Geekcorps Mali to give you a better understanding of what we are here doing.

Schoolnet Mali Program we helped with

• Geekcorps Transforms Plastic Water Bottles and Cell Phone Chargers into Wireless Antennas
• SchoolNet Rebuilds Used Computers in Mali