We Made the Evening News!

-- As luck would have it, KXAN-TV (NBC local affiliate) reporter Jim Swift got wind of the Ugandan team's exploits, and wanted to do a news piece about it for the evening news. So yesterday morning he came by and recorded interviews with everybody on the team (see picture).

Swift's the guy to my left holding the microphone. Mr. Kin Kaliisa, President Museveni's ICT Advisor, is in the suit in the center of the picture. Kin laughed when he told me after his individual interview that he had told Swift that Dell computers were just too expensive in Uganda, which was one reason why they wanted to have their own computer company.

I haven't seen the news piece yet (it ran last evening), but someone who did see it told me that the Dell comment didn't make the final cut. Not surprising, since Dell is headquartered here (in Round Rock, a northern suburb of Austin), and it's verboten to say anything negative about Dell in these parts.

JW