Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah is a Ghanaian software engineer with an excellent blog. His posts range from general cultural observations to fairly involved technical subjects, although the recent balance has been more on the culture side. Almost every post is accompanied by a “playlist”, an annotated list of a few songs that are thematically relevant. (He has great taste in music!) I am very pleased to see that he’s working on not one but two books. Here’s a sampling of recent interesting posts.

• Conundrum 65: Taxi Driver Braking Style which goes beyond the consideration of the globally curious nature of how taxi drivers stop into some consideration of the recent New York taxi technology controversy, and cites one of my favorite recent album acquisitions in its playlist.
• Home Economics, on the hunt for a home in the Bay area
• Rapid Transit, with some astonishing photos of trucks loaded down in improbable ways
• Africa, 1999, a discussion of the state of affairs on the continent in that year, in reference to a rediscovered poster displaying them.

Check it out…