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Election Day in Jakarta

July 8th, 2009 3 Comments

Despite warnings from police that Jakarta might face election riots, today’s vote seems to have gone quietly in the city, with all exit polls showing incumbent president SBY giving the competition a solid trouncing.

A man shows his inked finger — proof he voted in today’s presidential election — as he leaves a polling station in [...]

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Al-Hussein Explosion

February 22nd, 2009 No Comments

It’s always  a little sobering to hear about bombs going off in places I’ve recently been.

Khan al Khalili, January 2009.

Al Hussein Mosque

Al-Azhar area
It’s interesting, though, that because I subscribe to the Jaiku feeds of several Cairo-based journalists and bloggers, by the time I woke up this morning I had more detailed and complete news sitting [...]

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Carcar, Cebu

January 29th, 2009 No Comments

I’m not entirely certain what winding mental path led me to the rectory of St. Catherine’s Church in Carcar, Cebu. Some of it has to do with reading for a course on literature of social movements in the Philippines — it was to Carcar that the Visayan revolutionary Leon Kilat went seeking reinforcements for [...]

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Pyramids, home.

January 16th, 2009 No Comments

On my last day in Egypt, I finally made it to the pyramids at Giza. (I had seen them on the way to an interview, but only through the window of a moving car, which doesn’t quite do them justice.)

The whole scene is a rather unpleasant mix of corrupt police, touts, and tour busses, but [...]

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Cairo

January 7th, 2009 3 Comments

Views from Al-Azhar Park

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Crew slideshow

October 11th, 2008 No Comments

My multimedia slideshow on the Jack London Aquatic Center’s crew team for Oakland youth is now up at OaklandNorth.net.
More to come…

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Lazy Sunday

October 5th, 2008 No Comments

After days spent immersed in the arcane minutiae of municipal bond markets, it was nice to take a short day assignment that basically involved hanging out with kids in a neighborhood park.
(Of course, I do still have to write the bond piece.)

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June 15th, 2008 No Comments

Breakdancers, rocking it for the camera on Dipolog beach.
I’m leaving again for the mountains early tomorrow morning. This time, I’ll be well and truly off the grid — 12 km hike in, no cellphone signal — so I’ll be out of touch for at least the next 2 days.
Geeky digression: the only Tagalog [...]

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May Day

May 1st, 2008 No Comments

Some photos from the May Day march in San Francisco
More, and more to come, on my flickr account

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Marlena’s

March 10th, 2008 No Comments

The (semi)final cut of my series on the drag show at Marlena’s Bar in Hayes Valley:Check out a few more from the series on my flickr acount

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