Monthly Archives: March 2007

That crazy American is at it again!

By theresa | Published: March 12, 2007
I’ve been teaching a web development class for second year IT students. Basically, they get a business base, then it’s lots and lots of programming, including access, visual basic, etc. Lots of theory, very little practice. They took a year-long course in Access, and they couldn’t explain a relational database (although they [...]
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I missed Internaional Women’s Day.

By theresa | Published: March 9, 2007
Gooddammit. I mean, I’m not super pressed about it, but it would have been cool to go to some of the celebrations in Cotonou. And there were a lot. Did you know that 74% of Beninese women are illiterate? And the enfant mortality rate is almost 1 in 10 (93 out of 1000, [...]
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