
William Kamkwamba on building a windmill
August 28, 2009 by Gil Namur · 2 Comments
When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book. – from TED.COM I cried happy tears as I watched this remarkable young man make a short presentation about the windmill he built to produce [...]

How many page-views are you really getting? Part 1 – The WordPress Stats Test
May 1, 2010 by Gil Namur · 9 Comments
Years ago, it used to be that hits were the metric websites looked at to see how popular they are. That’s changed. Now, amongst other things, page-views are king. A few years ago, I started blogging. Almost immediately, I signed up for a Google Analytics account. I soon discovered that there was an enormous disconnect [...]

Mushroom Man
December 29, 2009 by Gil Namur · 7 Comments
Recently, I had the great pleasure to meet Bill Weaver from Across Borders Media. Bill has won many awards for his outstanding work often focusing on stories for a sustainable future. He sent me the following clip. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Not far from the shores of Cortes Island, [...]

The Chandler Family Reunion
September 17, 2009 by Gil Namur · Leave a Comment
I don’t usually post videos or news stories from mainstream media sources at synaptici. However, Jan Wall sent this to me in an e-mail and it is truly inspirational so I just had to share it with you. Steve Hartman revisits the Chandler Family Reunion, 30 years after Charles Kuralt, who found this story one [...]

Jazz Dog!
September 6, 2009 by Gil Namur · 3 Comments
In the article There is much to learn from dogs, I featured some photos of our new Chocolate Labrador Retriever, Jazz. About a month later, I took Jazz to the Beaver Lake Ponds for a swim and took some pictures of him having a great time. I posted a page with these pictures at Synaptic [...]
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