Red Orbit reports that Malawi has taken up Brazil’s lead and is now planning to switch from petrol to ethanol as the main vehicle fuel. Experiments on converting cars to run on this ethanol have gone well.
Ramblings on technology and its use in the fight against poverty
Red Orbit reports that Malawi has taken up Brazil’s lead and is now planning to switch from petrol to ethanol as the main vehicle fuel. Experiments on converting cars to run on this ethanol have gone well.
If you are looking for funded postgraduate research, the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) has some good news for you. The IRCSET has unveiled a €10.8 million scheme which will fund the early career formation of new doctoral and masters researchers in the sciences, engineering and technology. The Postgraduate Scholarship Research [...]
Migrating to this self-hosted Wordpress blog has been one of the most exciting events in my journey as a blogger. Now I can tap into the huge extension capabilities of Wordpress (WP) and grow my online community easily. It has also given me an opportunity to improve my PHP and server-side skills in general. Despite [...]
One thing that I have enjoyed so much here in Japan is the ability to make phone calls over the Internet.The bandwidth this side is very good. I am now able to make those free PC-to-PC Skype calls. I have had several conference calls with friends in other countries already. Apart from Skype, there is [...]
The Daily Times reports that the Mzuzu Coffee Association of Malawi will from next month start exporting its coffee to the niche United Kingdom market. This development follows a deal that the Mzuzu Coffee Association secured with a UK based company at the 20th international trade fair held in Blantyre.
Of late, my Facebook friends network has been growing rapidly. As of today, I have 610 Facebook friends. One of my new friends happens to be Melissa Coates who works for eXfuze, a company that produces Seven+, a proprietary blend of extracts from nutrient-rich berries in the world.This drink has been endorsed by the following [...]
Today, I stumbled on John Chow’s post in which he announces that he made a whopping $40,125.99 in the month of June, 2008. Guess what?At the beginning of the month of August, 2008, he will produce another report announcing the amount of money that he will make this month. Clearly, these amounts are too huge [...]
Sometime last year, while in South Africa, I bemoaned Malawi’s over dependence on tobacco as a source of foreign exchange. I went on to suggest that Malawi must switch from tobacco to Jatropha, which is a very useful crop.
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