Not quite on the etiquette subject, but I was hoping some of you lovely people could help out with another project of mine.

As I mentioned before, I’m travelling at the moment to Vanuatu, a developing nation in the South Pacific. The technical community here is small and under-resourced; there’s only a little Internet access, and few computers. However, there are people working very hard to set up community computer centres and to train local people in computer and Internet use.

One thing they don’t have is technical books. I’m trying to put together a technical library from geeks’ cast-offs. I know you’ve got some technical books you don’t use any more, or never used, or received as prizes or review copies. Take a look at this post on my personal blog, Technical Books for Vanuatu, and see if you can help out at all.

(In more topical news, there’s nothing like visiting a totally different culture to make you self-conscious about your etiquette. Here, I’m always finding that I talk too loud; I feel like a loud American tourist even though I’m not American! Anyone else here got stories of etiquette blunders while travelling?)