Month: March 2006

  • Wilderness First Responder in the making

    I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been hanging around the Bay Area. I did a contract for my old boss at his new employer, and some other random undirected hanging out I can’t really remember. Oh, I think it involved postponing writing code by taking the dog to the dog park. I’ve also been…

  • Got an MSF interview!

    Some great news on the relief work job hunt: I got a phone call from MSF USA the other day to set up an interview. It will be on April 12, here in San Francisco. The nice lady from MSF told me that what made the difference were recommendations I got from ex-MSF volunteers. Thanks…

  • A humanitarian aid bibliography

    Here’s a list of the books I’ve been reading over the last year and a half as I figure out how the relief world works. Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures. A sometimes funny, sometimes scathing, sometimes touching story of three aid workers working in the UN system in the 90’s. Will not leave a…

  • The Onion knows why I want to work overseas

    The highly respected journal of international development and humanitarian aid, The Onion, has a fascinating article on relief worker motivations. Wink, wink. Update: MSF’s own website backs up the Onion’s claims. Check out the contents of the life support kit for 8 staff members (KADMKLIF08). Yeah, there on the third page… CONDOM, lubricated + RESERVOIR…

  • How my talk went

    My talk on Monday went just fine. It was fun to see people that I’d met in Hancock County again, and the hard work I’d put in to the supporting documentation paid off. I saw several people reading my report. One interesting thing was that though everyone was dressed in suits to show proper respect…

  • Giving my talk today

    I’m in Jackson, Mississippi today giving my talk on the work Radio Response did in Hancock County. I’ve been burning the midnight oil the last few days getting the following documents ready: The Little Talk (100 kilobyte PDF file) The Big Report (2.2 megabyte PDF file) If you find a typo, please don’t tell me…