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How many times haven’t i come back to my computer and found that it has rebooted on me. At least KDE (and Firefox, and my pro-pimped IE) has session saving, but whatever was on the Windows desktop prior to the reboot … is no longer.
While Windows needs to reboot once in a while, the least [...]

The UN security council has voted to extend the current peacekeeping mission in Timor-Leste, UNMIT, by a year. Considering the rather volatile current situation (recap: President José Ramos-Horta was shot, but survived, in an assassination attempt on the 11th of February 2008 and the chase for the bad guys is on), i can only consider [...]

Navelfluff recognises the state of Kosovo. Welcome to the International community!
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Update @ 09:43: Added details about assassination attempts. @ 09:47 Confirmed Darwin, and that JRH is in serious condition but alive. @ 09:56 Added about Reinado. @ 10:10 Confirmed JRH moved. @10:57 I’m on NowPublic.com.
I am very saddened by the news that my former boss (and Nobel peace laureate, president of Timor-Leste and general good [...]

It’s UN Day today and you’re all invited! Have a good one!
Kudos to all people out there who are actually working for the UN, especially those witin UNDP and UNV (your day is on the 5th of December — i’ll be wearing my blue vest that day), and all you whom i [...]

The Internet Flash Mobben slår till igen. För att sympatisera med munkarna i Burma, är det klä-dej-i-munkrött-dagen runtom i världen på fredag. Munkrött är det som till vardags kallas teknikrött, dvs en aningen violettad röd.

As a small exercise in geekdom (when i probably should have been to bed already) i installed Xubuntu 6.10 on a one gig Kingston Mini-Migo USB flash drive. Yeah, it’s pretty small :). Instructions are here.
What i didn’t get running straight out of the box was the wireless network, which was handled with a [...]

I’ve updated Wordpress to 2.2.x. I would have used the auto-update plugin but my host insists on us guests not breaking their system (and ours) by forcing PHP Safe Mode. Knowing me, maybe that’s for the best, but i rather enjoy the possibility to break my stuff.
More importantly, there have been quite some hiccups [...]

I haven’t written anything about Timor-Leste lately, partly because i haven’t even had the chance to keep myself updated on the situation there. Well, in short, it’s a whole lot messier than when i was there.
Anyways, it’s news time.  UN has decided to extend the Timor-Leste mission in Timor-Leste by twelve months (the AlertNet article [...]

I haven’t had the time to do much blogging lately, and i still don’t, but this is kind of relevant. Kofi Annan recommends sending a force of 2000 peacekeepers to Timor-Leste. In practice, this means instigating a new peacekeeping (PK) mission in the country, in a new attempt to keep some stability [...]