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One of the people we met in Nairobi, Paige, does some work with the Maasai and invited us to visit an actual Maasai village with her for a night and to see what their culture is like. She was going there to discuss a school project with them. We’d met a couple of the leaders [...]

I went to Uganda and I have a lot to say about it, so sorry for the long post. The main reason I’m in Africa is because my friend, Holly, has an NGO that’s based in Northern Uganda in a town called Gulu. It’s kind of funny because when I was reading the Lonely Planet [...]

Well, this is my second morning in Nairobi. All is well. Manny and I got to Nairobi without any problems and had a taxi waiting for us to take us to an apartment that our friends had rented. When we got there, there were four other people waiting to greet us. Holly, who is in [...]

So I’m all packed up and just about ready to go. Just gotta have a quick shower and put on my travel clothes then I’m out the door. I weighed my bags and I’m well under the weight restrictions. If I’m right it’s 20kg for flights not in/out of North America and 30kg if you [...]

So in just over 24hrs I’ll be on a plane on my way to Nairobi via Amsterdam. At this point I’m all kinds of nervous, but I don’t know if it’s excitement and scared nervousness. I’ve made numerous lists to make sure I have everything covered and I’ve managed to cross out 98% of is, [...]

Yesterday Manny and I hit up M.E.C. for some supplies. On my list was: sleeping bag (my current bag is a little big and goes down to about zero, I don’t need that for backpacking) money belt (surprising that I’ve never had one before) dry sack (you never know) first aid kit collapsible water bottle [...]

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Ok, so last night Manny and I went and got injected with some diseases, some of you may call that a vaccination. All in all we both needed 5 shots, one oral vaccination and a prescription for two sets of pills. Not all of them were needed but advised. The most important was the yellow [...]

Ok… so here’s the thing… I’m going to Africa. Let me backtrack a bit for ya. I recently came across a lot of free time due to our failing economy and one of my friends, Manny, came across a trip. He wanted to do some charity work of seas and it just so happen his [...]

I don’t know how it happened, but Marc Hodges heard my message. So three months ago (to the day) I posted a message asking Marc Hodges to email me back regarding the potential sale of a domain in our name (marchodges.com) which he owns but has yet to post anything in the 5 years he [...]

**let me just preface this by saying that this not a letter to myself** Dear Mr. Marc Hodges I noticed that at some point yesterday you updated your registration of marchodges.com, which is all well and good considering you’re owned the domain since February 28th, 2002. And considering WHOIS tells me that you have the [...]

So 2007 hasn’t gotten off the best of starts (a couple deaths) but I am determined to make it get better from here. Over the last few months I’ve been going to a variety of small venue concerts (eg The Drake, Hugh’s Room) and I’ve been thoroughly impressed by the music. I love going to [...]

Following Jason’s example I’m gonna start a yearly list of all the places I visited during the course of a year: USA: Cleveland, OH Detroit, MI Rochester, NY Canada: Goderich, ON * Montreal, PQ * Ottawa, ON Waterloo, ON Overseas: Perth, Australia Sydney, Ausltralia Same criteria as Jason, one or more nights spent in each [...]

I’m back. Before I get into the results from Worlds, let me just tell you of my ride home from Oz and why I’ll probably never fly United again. The only reason I would is b/c they are the cheapest around and cheap flights are good, for short distances, not for going halfway around the [...]

Hey everyone… just a quick not to tell you that the posts on here will be a little lacking over the next couple weeks… I’m currently at the World Ultimate Club Championships in Perth Australia and the internet is lacking b/c I have other things on my mind, like winning games. Which is what we [...]

That’s right, you’re now looking at the new and imporved sevennine.net. So I’d like to introduce you to version 6, version 6 say hi everyone… The site has been hack for a while, it needed to be fix and I like it. The mainly reason was because of the new toy, so I wanted to [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts as of late but I’ve been crazy busy the last few days. I was at an ultimate tourny this past weekend with my Worlds team (we won it all) then I start working crazy hours at the office, I’ve pulled a few 10+ hour days in the past week, [...]

So I’ve finally done it.. I bit the bullet and finally jumped into the digital SLR market. After a number of years with my trusty Canon AE-1 and Nikon F80, I finally came to the conclusions that Nikon’s latest (the D80) was too much for me to resist. So what made me make the jump? [...]

Wow… I’ve finally done the impossible… I’m emptied my inbox. The way I operate is to leave all emails in my inbox until I’ve responded to them, then they get filed into their folders. So over the last couple weeks I’ve made extra effort to answer emails, you know, avoid doing the standard “oh, I’ll [...]

Using OriginalWell over the last month I’ve done quite a bit of moving and I think that it’s come to an end. Who’ll Host the Party? Well not quite a party, but the website. Sevennine has been up for two years now (Happy Birthday Sevennine!) and it was coming to the end of my contract [...]