About Savanna
contact Savanna
If you need help with your computer, if you are interested in getting a website, or if you just want to drop me a note, use the following email address. And, if you're ever around the Mangochi area, feel free to stop in. I live across from the pink house. ;-)
email: homepage1@savanna.malawi-mission.org
mobile: +265-8-515-197
skype: malawimiller
credit
I thank God for giving me the skill and ability that I have. I am also thankful for my family for supporting me (even when I stay up late fixing something and appear at the breakfast table looking like a disaster).
troubleshooting
Thanks to everyone for asking me all of the computer questions and bringing those broken computers.
It helped me to go out and find answers.
It sure is nice to find the answer and fix it (ok, maybe just know the answer) after a couple days of searching.
networks
Thanks to McGraths
for giving me the challange of building my first wireless network.
I know it didn't always work the way it was meant to, but I think all the kinks have been worked out now.
websites
Tim Cowley started my interest in websites.
Ever since the first webpage he built for us, I have been amazed at how much there is to learn.
I hope that sometime I can learn to design websites that look good and are technically sound.
this website
This is the fifth version of the website, but the only one that was ever completed.
I highly recommend Netfronts for your website hosting needs.
If it wasn't for them, this website wouldn't exist.
Most of the pictures are mine, but some of them are from SXC
and WallpaperStock.
Both sites have a huge collection of open license photos available.
The script that changes the small photos on the left
each refresh is from the script library of an old version of
1st Page 2000.
I also use the eXTReMe Tracker.
It is very useful to see what kind of browsers people use on this site
(although the site works fine with the newest versions of
Firefox and
Internet Explorer.
If you want, you can view the statistics for this site.
back to the beginning
Like many other senior highers' in their last year of high school, I had no clue what I wanted to do after graduation. Well, I did have some vague notion that I wanted to be an engineer. Living in a third-world country didn't help at all.
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My gap-year lengthened into two. I will look back at this time as some of the best years of my life, as I grew in my relationship with God and discovered a love (and a bit of skill) for working on computers. |
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There is always work to be done on computers. A close South African friend named Pieter is known as the computer man, and people often go to him when they have trouble. However, Pieter's main purpose is not working on computers! He is huge blessing to everyone, but he is often swamped. It was about this time that I started to help other people with their small computer problems.
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I started my first semester at Troy last in June 2005. The idea of turning my hobby of computers into a business came a couple years ago. I call the business "Savanna", but I am not registered at all. That will come sometime. For the moment I have decided to stay in Malawi, to help others with their computer problems, but principly to bring glory and praise to God. |
In June of 2003, I went back to the States with my family to
begin four months of "home ministry",
another phrase for visiting churches and telling them about what we as a family are doing in
By the end of the summer, I decided to go back with Mom & Dad to Malawi,
and have a "gap year" (take a year off between high school and university).
I made good use of the time by enrolling in 
Along the way, I learned from Pieter, from other computer friends, and from working on computers.
I started to do different things, such as installing networks and designing websites.
In 2005, John McGrath and Jason Agar asked me to start working on their computers at their businesses.
This was a huge blessing as I learned and grew more experienced.
At the end of my fourth semester with Telos, I sensed that it was time to change schools.
Telos did not offer computer courses so with the help of Ryan Yamane at
