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Author Archives: theresa
I’m in love with the idea that the second coming could be a 17-year-old African woman
Six months ago, rumors began circulating about an orphan who could heal, raise the dead, and perform exorcisms. And what better place for a second coming than a region plagued by sorcery, witches, and the devil himself? Thousands of pilgrims came to weekly masses in a tiny village with no water and no electricity, in [...]
Posted in Experiences Tagged catholicism, ism ism ism, mysticism, religion, skepticism, voodoo Leave a comment
On peace
Bertrand’s oldest brother passed away over the weekend.
I could write a fascinating post detailing funeral rites and Beninese mourning. But somehow, that feels like an invasion of privacy.
I’ll be back on SVO, Facebook, Twitter, and the rest in a week or so.
Posted in Day-to-Day Leave a comment
On Haiti. Full stop.
I haven’t written much lately because every time I sit down at my keyboard, I want to write about Haiti. I want to write about terrible injustice. And I want to write about the appalling difference I see between main stream media depictions and fresher, more local sources.
I haven’t written about Haiti because, let’s face [...]
Posted in Day-to-Day, Getting it off my chest Tagged aid, disaster, earthquake, Haiti, impotence, relief Leave a comment
SVO is now Creative Commons licensed
Attribution-ShareAlike, to be precise. Copy away, even for commercial purposes. The sole conditions are: 1) you have to credit me (attribute the work) and b) whatever you use my work for also has to be CC licensed.
As SVO is coming up on its five year anniversary, I’mcleaning out some closets and setting a few things in [...]
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Facts, lies, and conjecture: Benin Telecoms’ latest blow up
What we know (facts):
Our Internet connection has been out since last Friday.
So have those of all other WiMax clients.
Non-WiMax clients of Benin Telecoms have been having problems since Friday for certain types of downloads and have experienced unusual bandwidth shaping.
Connections from other ISPs sometimes work, and sometimes don’t. There is probably a [...]
Browser statistics and Commentary for Benin (or, IE6 isn’t going anywhere fast, so we might as well stop complaining and get back to work)