Archive for August, 2006



Bob Marley be'MasinQo! Comments

Hey I don’t understand half the things he is saying but hey listen! I love azmari’s. When I finally go back to Ethiopia, I’m going to Azmari bet everyday.

Gethiopia! 11 Comments

For years I boycotted Google; from 97-2002 I was a Yahoo user, Yahoo email, Yahoo everything. Now I can’t do anything on the net with certain Google tools. I even avoided Google’s Gmail till about four months ago. Now! What was I thinking? I use many Google tools. Bernos uses hosted Gmail, Google Adwords, Google [...]

The Art of the Lost Deal! 63 Comments

Frustrated? No, not really. Disappointed? Somewhat! I work full time and I dabble part time. I’m fairly busy thus keep my hoof marks to a minimum and tackle to keep it interesting. Take only the projects that are interesting, creative and challenging. Some projects come from Ethiopians, and a few others not. About a month [...]

Abebe Bikila – Aylubu! 26 Comments

Abebe Bikila was born in Ethiopia on 7 August 1932, the day of the Los Angeles Olympic marathon. Twenty-eight years later, he entered the marathon at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. He and his coach, Onni Niskanen, decided that Bikila, who ran barefooted, should make his final move a little more than one kilometre from [...]

EnTil masQoreT kilkil neuw! 24 Comments

Hey, check this out! That’s my uvula a/k/a ‘entil’. I had it removed just today, because it was “blocking my air passage.” I wish my parents took care of it at ‘the right time’, in ‘the right place’, by ‘the right doc’. Back home, a buck ninety nine and a shot of ‘Arekae’ would have [...]