Sorry about the lack of posting. Days have been full of logframes* (you really don't want to know) and biomass, endless revisions of the same document, evenings much the same except for a new restaurant in Sarajevo, a Gilmore Girls rerun (my colleague is now buying sets for all her family for Christmas), and a surprisingly large time spent discussing jewellery and retirement planning (huh?). Also hilarity about sausage dogs**, a uniquely British (OK Irish as well) contribution to energy efficiency (3rd world technology in everyday use in Britain) and educats***.
I will be soooooooooo glad to get back to my own computer with a non-Bosnian keyboard (though I did manage to fix it in the end) and my own bookmarks, not to mention passwords automatically remembered. Though I did find the presentation on policing in Bosnia (left on the laptop I borrowed) quite interesting. It didn't shed much light on the current debate on police reform though.
Shame I can't be coming back to BiH again on current plans.
Coming soonl
Thoughts on the big birthday
Another rant about Sony Vaio maintenance (advertised as 5-10 day service, and already 10 days have passed with no action)
Planning for a new country
*see Wikipedia here. Reading Wikipedia I learnt there were such things as killer assumptions. Sure are plenty when designing projects in Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Given a well constructed logical framework, an informed skeptic and a project advocate should be able to agree on exactly what the project attempts to accomplish, and how likely it is to succeed-- in terms of programmatic (goal-level) as well as project (purpose-level) objectives.
I'm really good at the informed skeptic part. My risks and assumptions could be so daunting that no one would ever fund the project.
**For a retro version see here, how to make one here
***In the context of public education campaigns and sausage dogs, this typo seemed awfully funny. As a concept it is so far underdeveloped. Just goes to show that shared context is everything when it comes to jokes. Evaporates entirely next day.
