I am currently back in Trieste, with my good friends Marco and Carlo, and this time the topic is Bandwidth Optimization. More info here: ICTP-SDU: Lowbandwidth Optimization Techniques I’ve given lectures and had lab sessions on Traffic Shaping, and Bandwidth Monitoring, as well as some very basic linux firewalling stuff. There’s about 40 colleagues here [...]

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For the past 4 years; in fact ever since that fateful day about 5 years ago when I said yes to travel to ghana, working as a volunteer for Africa Express , and genreally having a blast. It was my baptism into the fascinating world that has occupied the last 4 years of my life. [...]

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We spent saturday cleaning up and winding down after the weeks extravaganza. Well, actually i spent most of the day in the foetal position, dehydrated and hungover after and all-night beer and burning (cd’s) session and nigh on 2 hour of sleep. Debrief and detox…. In other words, the abuse of a week of social [...]

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I’m back in Denmark. No hiding here. It was a wonderful vacation, and Brazil remains high on my list of wonderful countries. Lençois and the Chapada Diamantina, in Central Bahia are especially recommended. There are pictures to be seen here, and perhaps some updated entries from my little black moleskine will show up soonish. Also, [...]

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So, I had a plan…. to update this page with a few brief travelaccounts once a week while i was away. Part one of the plan has been succesful. i´ve written a few brief accounts of special experiences in my small leather-bound moleskine notebook (incidentally the notebook favoured by my all-time favourite travel-writer and something [...]

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Yes, yes, yes….. I’m going to Bahia, with a brief stop in Rio and a trip to Pernambuco. Brazil, here we come. Since the girl of my dreams has finished her Masters degree and is now officially an engineer, AND has landed a dream job in a difficult market, we’re off to celebrate. It was [...]

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So, I actually got some pictures up…. have a look at http://photo.multiplicity.dk feel free to comment on them. I will hopefully be adding meaningful descriptions to some of these pictures soon.

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tsitsernakaberd. monument and museum of the armenian genocide. between 1915 and 1916 the then ottoman empire exterminated (yes, really, exterminated) some 1.5 million armenians living as citizens of the ottoman empire, in what was then known as western armenia (a part of turkey, i might add). they started off by ordering (and completing) the cold-blooded [...]

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it’s a all a little bit strange. going home! after just 30 days here in armenia, i’ve started thinking about going home. i’m ready to go home. i’ve had a great time here, i love the work i do on a trip like this. i love meeting new people, seeing new places, trying on new [...]

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cheers everyone, just a few days short of the end of my yerevan adventure, i finally got a dial-up account. or more precisely i borrowed a dial-up from a new isp, with offices in the same hotel as iesc. so here i am, sitting in bed with my laptop on-line for the first time since [...]

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