Into the Wild Spaces :: About the Author, Randall Wood | |
Travel Writing | |
Technology, gadgets, OSes | |
Economics, Development, Politics | |
News about me | |
Woodnotes Guides to Tech | |
Poetry | |
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Recent entries: | |
Calabar (Travel/Nigeria) 16 Mar 2024 | |
White-Hair Point (Travel/Caribbean Islands) 15 Mar 2024 | |
The Haw River (Travel/North America) 1 Mar 2024 | |
The Dogs of Delhi (Travel/India) 9 Feb 2023 | |
The Taj Mahal (Travel/India) 7 Feb 2023 | |
The Pines Stand in Pockets (Poetry, Travel/N.America) 7 Feb 2023 | |
A Quiver of Pens (/Tech/Other) 28 Jan 2023 | |
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You are reading this on gopher, yay! On the WWW it's at | |
http://www.therandymon.com. | |
Welcome! I have fond memories of gopher and thought in a radical act of | |
defiance against the way the modern WWW is headed, I would replicate my entire | |
sites content on gopher. Enjoy it! Here are a few words about the author. | |
Spammers and identity thieves, please take note: | |
I have spent most of my life living and working overseas, from Asia to Latin | |
America to Africa. Other than travel, my biggest interests are open-source | |
software and computer systems, writing, exploring, camping, biking, hiking, | |
surfing, and making maps. I love languages and good books. This website | |
reflects my passion for exploration. | |
I am the co-author of the best-selling travel guide book Moon Nicaragua and | |
its companion Living Abroad in Nicaragua for expats and retirees. I am also | |
the author of the phenomenal Dictator's Handbook: a practical manual for the | |
aspiring tyrant. In addition to those three books, I have published several | |
other pieces as well. | |
I work in the power sector, with a focus on solar, wind, and renewable energy | |
technologies. I previously was a senior manager with RTI International, where I | |
designed and implemented projects related to clean energy, energy efficiency, | |
and improving access to energy for the rural poor, particularly in Africa. I'm | |
passionate about solar PV and mini-grid technologies, as well as improving the | |
status quo on utility service delivery. Before that I was General Manager for | |
a 33 MW peat-to-power plant in Uganda, and for ten years I was the Resident | |
Country Director for MCC: I spent five years each in Benin and Senegal. | |
In my spare time I make maps and surf, play the 12-string guitar, and go | |
hiking. I am a vocal advocate of Open Source software and love Linux and | |
FreeBSD in particular. I dabble in server tech and retrocomputing. | |
I am listed on LinkedIn for professional networking, but don't/won't use | |
Facebook, despite its flaws. I have an Amazon author page. These days I don't | |
do social media and typically stick to a text-only browser. The WWW is a | |
wasteland and the internet is generally speaking, a sewer. | |
I much prefer email. Drop me a line if you'd like to get in touch; my current | |
(disposable, spam-filtered) email address is zafiro17 AT gmail DOT COM. | |
Rest assured, this server is not placing any cookies or tracking you in any way | |
(Man, don't you miss the early days of the Internet?) As a result, I have no | |
idea if anyone is reading this stuff. If you've gotten here by gopher, say | |
hello. | |
Enjoy the site, advertising-free, tracking-free, "create a profile"-free, spam | |
free, etc. It's been my pleasure. |