alright we might have a little rain problem here at what the hack, but i think we should put it into perspective. just read a really impressive first hand account by Prashant Pandey from monsoon-struck bombay on the reader-list. it ends with the following sentences: […] I want to get out of this gorgonic jam. […]

today i soend most of my day trying to get a schengen visa for programmer/activist from cote d’ivoire and that meant i had to make lots of phone calls to cote d’ivoire and while doing that i dialed wrong numbers a couple of times. now if you dial the wrong number locally people are usually […]

in eastern germany you get your abitur (the secondary school exam that entitels you to study at a university) after 12 years (where i grew up you have to do 13 years of school for the same exam), but apparently it also gets you less: there are areas in east germany where more than a […]