[Travelogue: New Orleans, LA. May 2013 for 3 days] This post is somewhat a placeholder for a more animated description of the city if I ever get around to it. A friend gave extensive awesome suggestions and this is just a round up of what we did end up doing. Transport: Taxi from airport to … Read More →
Google Reader: Workaround for sharing
[Credit for Featured Image: Marina Zaitseva] As we are all aware Google Reader disabled sharing other than on Google+ in it’s new version. This obviously upset me immensely because I used my share feed for my blog. After trying out numerous suggestions, this is what worked: 1. Subscribe to your original shared feed 2. Pray … Read More →
Converting ODK XML Data to CSV
[Featured Image: Open Data Kit | Civic Commons] Context: Household survey in rural Tanzania Task: Combine data from XML files and display in an Excel File Challenges: Nested loop within survey which required questions to be repeated so survey and questions were not one-to-one Number of fields for survey exceeded 255 Each survey was in … Read More →
You live in Tetnus?
[Warning: Exaggeration happens. Sometimes. And other times life is just THAT funny.] The Kindle Chronicles: First week into Tanzania, Kindle dies. Or well freezes. All I could make out is half an advertisement of some exotic beach locale with a drink with an umbrella in it. I don’t want a drink with an umbrella in … Read More →



