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After almost a year of being in Egypt, we finally decided to go up to Alexandria today. We took the 9:00 AM train from Cairo and the ride went smooth until we were just outside the final Mahatat Misr station, where we were delayed for over an hour until pulling up to a platform. (more…)
Upon popular request, I’ve decided to update the original tutorial for populating a LiveCycle PDF with PHP to apply to the new release of pdftk-php. The installation instructions should be mostly clear in the readme and in the inline comments in the example included with the script; this post is merely supplemental. (more…)
I’ve been in Egypt for almost a year now, studiously working towards my MA in Middle East Studies. The supposed capstone of my time here at AUC—my thesis—now looms ahead somewhat menacingly. I get to spend the next several months researching and writing what will end up being my largest research project to date. It’ll also set the foundation for my (hopefully) future PhD plans.
There’s only one problem: I don’t quite know what I’m writing it on. (more…)
Our family has a fairly sizable blog that we (actually, mostly my wife, Nancy) have kept updated for several years. Since it contains so much family history we wanted an easy way to preserve it in print form, just in case Blogger gets the boot from Google some day (not that that will ever really happen…). (more…)
I'm Andrew. I am a 25 year old student and web designer and developer from Orem, Utah. I live in Egypt where I'm working on my MA in Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo. I'm married and have one daughter. Life rocks.
