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Happy New Year to those of you living in the future

Monday, December 31st, 2007

It’s 6:34pm on December 31, 2007.  At least that’s what my watch tells me.  But, if you were to ask a local on the streets of Addis Ababa, they’ll tell you that it’s 12:34pm on Takhsas 21st, 2000 – Takhsas being the name of the 4th month in the Ethiopian calendar.  Confusing? It can be if you pay attention.  And most of the time I don’t.  I live according to my time, my strange faranji* time, where the new day starts in the middle of the night and thoughts of the new millennium are well in the past. [read on]

If you were in Ethiopia…

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

You’d be watching this on local television…