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Courage - Of Man U - See Below

Hmmn,

I wasn’t planning to blog this week, but I just received an mPesa from UK and it seems Mpesa SMSes Confirmation receipt has changed. The receipt no longer contain the Comma Thousand Separator. Amount now comes to the sender and recipient as Ksh78000 instead of Ksh78,000.

This affects SMSes from mPesa UK (via Western Union). Not Kenyan-originated Mpesas.

For the payment gateway/aggregator developers who use Mpesa SMS Confirmations as a way of recording payments (A very risky and insecure model, cringe!), make sure you are not parsing for the Comma.

Obviously, to avoid this from affecting your code, you can always replace the comma whether it exists or not, and make your insecure code future-proof.

End of!

Err, ngoja. Ball kiasi kwanza before ni-vamoose.

About Football

We all know the big game of the week. The Mighty Arsenal vs Barcelona (The Spanish Softies). Last time Messi aling’ara because there was no Song in  midfield and the Defence has expired defenders (Sol and Sylvestre). In attack, we had a moody hit-or-miss Bendtner, with his pink gay boots that always make Scholes get a boner. Barca wakitushinda roundi hii, nitakubali. No excuses this time round.

We now have a better setup. We have  is an on-form RvP, Cesc, Nasri and a better defense. I predict a 2-1 Arsenal win. Then a draw on March 8.

Speaking of 2-1 (Not the Wolves vs Man Ushoga 2-1), but the 2-1 result in the Manchester Derby last weekend. Giving credit where and when it is due, I salute Wayne Rooney for his goal. It was a dumb and career threatening move for such a fat person to jump so high just to score. But it worked! At least, he now feels how Arshavin feels everyday. Since he does that everyday. Not once in-a-blue-moon.

I stopped a Man U fan on his tracks after the game had ended, as he rushed home to put on his Man U Jersey (they always wear the jerseys after the game – after they win) and asked him to explain why All Man U fans do that. Why they wear Caltex, Protex and Safaricom shirts during the game, but put on a Man U shirt after the game. He answered : “Unajua most Man U Jerseys are Nylon. So you can’t wear Nylon for long. You must wait for the game to end, then wear it. Otherwise it smells.”, And I was elightened.

Back to code…

Wazi