It is 7am in Brisbane however I have been up a couple of hours already – I need to get back into the whole day and night thing.

I have found an old forum post that I thought I would share:

Just a quick heads up to everyone to take a look at http://www.kiva.org .

Basically it is a company that allows micro loans to be made to entreprenuers in developing countries ie. £20 – £100 le blurb:

Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a usiness on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you’ve sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.

After finally gaining my visa this week I will be heading off to Brisvegas on Sunday using a one way ticket so another 23hrs in a plane – however thankfully this time it will be business class !

I have also been reading Frank Schilling’s blog regarding domain names which seems to cut through the chaff and nonsense in the industry with remarkable ease. One of his recent posts addresses the quirks of arbitrage (the fact anyone can buy and sell and pocket the difference) yet only prime generics can do this without having to do the ‘buy’ bit – all good news!

Every few months I am in the fun position of having to juggle around some PGP keys between servers. While doing this I always spend fifteen minutes trying to remember the right export commands so here for my own and google users reference:

export PGPPATH=”/path/to/pgp/”

This is used if you are using a none default PGP path.

To do the actual exporting you need four bits of info; the PGP command, PGP user, export filename and the location of the public and private key
pgp -kx $pgpuser $exportfilename secring.skr

Things dont get more exciting than that.