oblonski welcomes you
Tuesday, 25. April 2006, 23:14:24
good day, and welcome to my blogspace 
here you will find all sorts of strange things that i spend time reading about or actively engaging in or thinking about
i am living as a sort of hermit recluse in hogsback, south africa with only my pentium4 and my broadband mobile with opera mini to keep me plugged into the grid
i do freelance graphic design in photoshop and dtp layout in indesign
recently i have started a project to provide a community computer training lab here in hogsback, and are documenting the whole process on the Rhodes University wiki space, their Computer Science Department is doing research into providing wireless broadband ICT solutions to disadvantaged rural communities in and around Grahamstown, especially schools
the URL is http://dwesa.coe.ru.ac.za/wiki/User:Oblonski
go here and read about what precisely i am trying to do as well as progress reports on the project so far
Just a short little bio:
I was born on 5 October 1974 in Cape Town, South Africa
I finished high school at Bellville-South High School in 1992 and went to Stellenbosch University where I studied Law and Political Science.
I spent three years in Myanmar (Burma) as an ordained Buddhist monk in the Burmese Theravada tradition. I attended the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University (ITBMU) in Yangon (Rangoon) where I attained a diploma in Buddhist Philosophy.
I returned to South Africa in 2004 and went to work at the Buddhist Retreat Center in Kwa-Zulu Natal Province as administrator and meditation teacher. Then I left and worked in the publishing industry as proofreader/copy-editor and graphic designer.
I am currently living up in the mountains and doing freelance graphic design and copy-editing work. I am also using Linux, the open source operating system based on Unix and teaching myself Python programming.
here you will find all sorts of strange things that i spend time reading about or actively engaging in or thinking about
i am living as a sort of hermit recluse in hogsback, south africa with only my pentium4 and my broadband mobile with opera mini to keep me plugged into the grid
i do freelance graphic design in photoshop and dtp layout in indesign
recently i have started a project to provide a community computer training lab here in hogsback, and are documenting the whole process on the Rhodes University wiki space, their Computer Science Department is doing research into providing wireless broadband ICT solutions to disadvantaged rural communities in and around Grahamstown, especially schools
the URL is http://dwesa.coe.ru.ac.za/wiki/User:Oblonski
go here and read about what precisely i am trying to do as well as progress reports on the project so far
Just a short little bio:
I was born on 5 October 1974 in Cape Town, South Africa
I finished high school at Bellville-South High School in 1992 and went to Stellenbosch University where I studied Law and Political Science.
I spent three years in Myanmar (Burma) as an ordained Buddhist monk in the Burmese Theravada tradition. I attended the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University (ITBMU) in Yangon (Rangoon) where I attained a diploma in Buddhist Philosophy.
I returned to South Africa in 2004 and went to work at the Buddhist Retreat Center in Kwa-Zulu Natal Province as administrator and meditation teacher. Then I left and worked in the publishing industry as proofreader/copy-editor and graphic designer.
I am currently living up in the mountains and doing freelance graphic design and copy-editing work. I am also using Linux, the open source operating system based on Unix and teaching myself Python programming.
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Mario Olckers # 22. August 2006, 04:07
jjyork # 2. October 2007, 00:02
How are you? I have been hearing the news from Burma and I was thinking about you. I hope things are going all right. You can email me at jjyork at umich dot edu. I also just got a my.opera account, but it was mostly so I could post a comment here.
All the best to you,
Jeremy