December 2008
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Art deco capital of Africa
In 1890 Italy colonized much of present day Eritrea. The first wave of Italian settlers arrived 20 years later. In 1936 under Mussolini, Eritrea, Ethiopia and what was then Italian Somaliland were “united” under the Kingdom of Italy. Asmara was chosen to be its industrial centre.
By that stage more than half the almost 100,000 residents of the city were Italian. Mussolini, who wanted to oversee...
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Ma first tumblaah post
Dear Lord, I hope I take to this format better than I took to WordPress. Scoble reckons Tumblr’s the best thing since sliced bread, or does he mean “spliced twitter”? He also says that Tumblr’s lead developer, Marco Arment, is “brilliant”. But hang on a minute, oh, oh, Marco never listens to Scoble because “he doesn’t know what he’s talking...