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Chachachacha Changes!
8 March 2010
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Cutie alert
Over the last week, Niamh also made her appearance here in Dar, on a welcome break from Lusaka. We visited South Beach here in Dar, Bongoyo island and, last weekend, Bagamoyo, where we stayed at Bagamoyo Beach Resort, a friendly hotel which seemed to have seen better days, not unlike the city of Bagamoyo itself. Bagamoyo, at mild traffic an hou... read more
A collage
23 February 2010
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Resizing images on the fly using PHP
19 February 2010
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Being a typical lazy coder, I looked around for an existing library and found a useful start in Simon Jarvis' library for resizing images on the fly. It almost served my needs, besides the ability to resize images to fit inside a user defined box.
So I added the function resizeToMax.
The updated file can be found in my dropbox. Obviously, change the ... read more
It. Is. Momentous.
17 February 2010
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Artsy competition
I'm still judging for FLEFF 2010, and in the meantime a not too dissimilar project is starting over in Singapore.
For an exhibition at the International Communication Association Conference in late June, they're looking for work on the theme of 'open space'. I always struggle with calls for proposals of this kind as they're often rather conceptual, but in its simplest form, open space is defined as "spurring collaborative knowledges and producing new provisional microterritories through engagement. Open Space is where technologies meet people meet spaces."
T... read more
Ceci n'est pas une peep
14 February 2010
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Shake that
7 February 2010
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The park, with an entrance fee of 5500 shilling, less than 3 euros, isn't bad, though, and quite eclectic. For the peeps on the wet dance floor in the middle of the complex, the DJ was alternating between African pop, Hindi tunes as well as popular Arab tracks.
What was disturbing was that, during one song, several of the throng of young local girls went down on all fours, head on the floor, booty in the air, and started shaking and grinding their backside as... read more


















After obtaining an M. Sc in maths, Babak Fakhamzadeh started with an office job at a major blue chip company but soon realised he'd do better on his own. Babak is a traveling web guru with a penchant for doing good and a love for visual and experimental art. Together with Ismail Farouk, he won the prestigious Highway Africa new media award in 2007 for 