Up and out by 6:30am. Heading to the airport. Once out of Gaziantep the roads were empty. For the first time in a week I dipped into the feeds. The more I read the more the refugee crisis in Syria felt like a bad dream. On Twitter It seems everyone back home is going crazy for Google Glass. I wondered how I would feel if I'd worn them in the refugee camps in Syria. Or if soon the aid workers … [Read more...] about A ‘Heads Up’ on the Tech Chasm
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War Games
The service taxi - a kind of small minibus used throughout Syria in place of public transport - was not being driven in a way its designers intended. The dirt road through Aleppo provence in northern Syria was, itself, dangerous enough for me to look at my white knuckles on the back of the driver's seat and let out a barely stifled scream. I had already trusted the driver with my life while … [Read more...] about War Games
Solar Powered Journalist
I just discovered this old (slightly crappy) video from 2008. I still have the Maplin solar flight case but it needs a new Lithium Polymer motorbike battery to slot inside. This morning a friend of mine who is a Journalist in Syria emailed asking me how he can charge his camera batteries and laptop during power cuts. He is planning ahead and looking for a contingency plan should the … [Read more...] about Solar Powered Journalist
Important Work
(photo by Phil Sands) A friend of mine who is part of a new photo agency, Makoto, wrote to me from Damascus the other day in need of emergency help with an ailing website.To cut a long story short, he needed a new mechanic to open the bonnet of the the agency's stalled site and get it started again. He emailed me, I dropped out a tweet and within two … [Read more...] about Important Work
Makoto
[This blog post also exists on my main blog OurManInside.com linked here: http://su.pr/9mKlGs ] My friend Phil wrote to me from Kirkuk, he's researching this story on the Arab-Kurd situation. It's slow going, but he summarises it all with one sentence. No one wants to compromise, there's a low level war already underway and things could get more dangerous in a year or two. All sort of … [Read more...] about Makoto