Hand Crafted High Tech
A rusty hand painted sign advertises software treats on the cheap.
These fellas will hook you up with the latest MP3, ringtone or download that you need.
Wedged in an outdoor line of book stores and haircut places, it’s a simple approach that caters mainly to high school and college students.
You’ll find a place like this near most big high schools in Phnom Penh.
It’s cobbled together in the morning and disassembled in the evening.
When it rains? Scramble for plastic sheeting.
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POV Map
I got an email titled POV Map, which sounds exciting. Perhaps a detailed trail of where mystery figure Heng Pov has been?
I click immediately and find a collection of info about Cambodian income distribution, from the Poverty Mapping Project of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network.
Let’s face it, most people choose hot gossip over hard data. Guilty as charged.
[Thanks to the Arcturan Embassy for tipoff.]
(Image credit: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),Columbia University. Copyright 2005, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.)
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Phnom Penh Post @ Cantina
Too skint to buy the $150 Phnom Penh Post CD-ROM?
(I’m surprised it isn’t hacked, cracked and on sale in the Russian Market by now… not that I would advocate such a thing.)
Well, Hurley’s Cantina now has a set of bound volumes of the Phnom Penh Post, dating back to its early early days. Open for lunch as well as dinner, you can be one of the first to stain the pages with guacamole.
If your hunger is intellectual, not gastronomical, no sweat. Just pull up a barstool and peruse the news. (Bonus points if you can embarrass the bar owner with quotes from his old articles.)
Cantina:#347 Sisowath Quay, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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“Personal Information Technology Workshop“
Virak, Lux, Kalyan Keo, DeeDee and Chantra among others are lending a hand to get college kids wired up.
Some students are getting a handle on email, others are jumping in to start weblogs, most just want to soak in some new skills. Some pictures from last weekend’s seminar at the University of Technology and Management:
Chantra takes the microphone.
Over 110 participants! On a rainy day!
More at Traactivity, and if you missed it? Click for handouts and info.
(retroblogging this on Oct. 05) Tags: Cambodia,weblog
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