August 2007
Michael Gallagher Jetlag, sleep, and the limits of human endurance
I have slept approximately 5-6 hours in the last 3 days. I am at work now and I am pretty sure I just sent an email to someone who will…
Run!
This guy could easily have been running for his life. I exaggerate slightly, but the level of crime was very palpable in South Africa. It will take time, I am…
Some photographs
I will try to organize these into some sort of coherent narrative later on, but I thought I would offer a few images. You might wonder why many of these…
Home again, naturally
I have made it back from the African continent. I was placed next to a Senegalese woman for the last leg of the flight, the stretch from Dakar to New…
IFLA Report #2
Observation: people at conferences love pens. As far as the free stuff that people in these booth hand out, pens are by far the best. One woman was insistent on…
Live from Booth 37
I am at IFLA as we speak, setting up the booth for the day. After my initial bout of mild dysentery, I am recovered and doing well. Durban is lovely…