pogoconsulting

nice for india, useless in ecuador. i.e. a thing to squeeze juice out of oranges. to make fresh orange juice. you can buy it cheaply in india and it makes sense because often you get juice with too much sugar or water added – and as it is: you don’t know what kind of water it is. so for the paranoid and the gourmet: something to make own fresh orange juice is quite nice.
in ecuador it is useless because there you can buy perfect juice just about everywhere. the best juice in the world, according to me, is “tomatos del arbole” and i didn’t find it anywhere but in ecuador.

if digital camera is already in the backpack and you plan to use internet cafes, think about also adding a knoppix for emergency cases. you can use it to remove malware from memory cards if owners of those internet cafes are cooperative.

i’d wanted to have a knoppix once when i carried dirty files around on a cf card i bought for photos, not viruses.

scrollback. what’s the single most annoying thing about travelling? windows.
poorly administered windows. for example in odb, the old dirty bundi. crap in the streets, dogs itching fleas, rubbing, biting, pigs always having the last check of the piles of debris, with the one exeption of the dirt piling up on the harddrives of od bundis internet cafes. (this ain’t the embrio db, this is the old motherf*g dirty bundi;)
sitting in one of those internet cafes under a dusty fan, plugging usb from dirty windows to my digicam, copy, check, hey, whats that [original data].exe doing there?

so from that moment on i carry a virus around, unidentified because bugger, i want to travel, not run online scans or all that fancy stuff.
as a result i was comfortable only with either plugging in my camera or logging into any account. no image uploading, no emailing them…
turned out is was w32.traxq@mm and it turned out this way: in our hotel in jaisalmer i saw a well known yellowish window popping up like “found virus, blabla, remove it? yes / no”. youpi, norti anti windows installed, the thing that fucks your registry and eats your memory uncooked, the yellow monster … pleased to meet you:)

they have the same thing, that much is sure. do you admnit such things? i wasn’t sure, but in the end, fearless, i told the user where she got it from. an austrian tourist in the late thirties, together with her husband clicking “yes”, “couldn’t remove…”, “virus alert, remove?”, “yes”, “yes”, “yes”, calling the hotels internet guy, clicking “yes”, “yes”, rebooting.
“hello, i think i have the same thing, just let me read the name, thanks”, luckily the user is still quite calm given the circumstances, “did i loose all my photos?”, her husband, very big, luckily even calmer. you don’t want to end up in hospital thanks to windows do you?
but this time everything went licely when i found it’s normal that nortie cannot remove the vfirus it is on the cdrom you just burned to back up your photos, and also it’s a mass mailer, most probably it won’t deleet anything.
conclusion: on my next trip i’ll pack a knoppix for removing nasty files from cf cards and the like since windows is just not able to do it without major disable this and that voodoo.

jaisalmer, ganz ganz links in indien, ein fingerbreit von der pakistanischen grenze entfernt, naja, 75 km luftline, kurs 220 grad suedwest oder so. kurz, ohne tourismus wuerde man hier heute noch ueber die ‘partition’, die trennung indiens und pakistans schimpfen. nehme ich an. bin aber nicht sicher, denn alle sind hier sehr sympathisch und entspannt, eine erhohlung nach den absurd sinnlosen hektik die wir z.b. in der kleinstadt bundi antrafen.
gestern sahen wir marionettentheater mit ingenioesen verfaedelungen, heute, in 15 minunten, werden wir einen trip in de wueste unternehmen. jslmr ist uebrigens in etwa die aussprache des ortsnamens im hiesigen dialekt. trocken.

leuk, aapjes. leuk kabel. aapjes en kabel? niet goed. we’ve been staying in powercut city for a while so this accounts for the lack of blog.
there is a big wirrwarr of unshielded cable from house to house in bundi. like speaker cable. lots of them. and every evening the monkeys try to get a nice view on the sunset from higher places. ideally this is the impressive fort towering over the small city. but then, lack of time or ‘don’t want to go up all the way’, houses do it just as well. dammned cable, ayy, anyway, i don’t need internet, i’m a monkey, so, where’s the sunset?
inzwischen sind wir in jaipur, die hauptstadt von rajastan. lonely planet und routart unisono: ‘chaotic big city…chaotic big city…chaotic big city…, traffic, alle moeglichen tricks um dir das geld aus der tasche zu ziehen…’. nach eineinhalb tagen denke ich: bundi war nerviger als jaipur, unser kilo reisefuehrerduell frankreich gegen australien gucke ich schief an und, for the record: australien fuehrt 2:0 gegen routard nord wie sued.