Thus Spaketh Idd Salim

Crayfish Babbbaaayy!!

Distract any self-respecting coder/designer/animator from their work by suggesting that you go for lunch, play foosball or by coming to their desk to ask silly/stupid and irrelevant questions like ‘How are you?’ or ‘How was your night?’,  at iHub and you have made an enemy.

Tell a coder that you have some gig that requires they stay away from their computer for more than 6 hours, and they will cringe. Such is the life of a digerati.

But once in a long while, comes something tempting enough. Take for example, WordCamp. WordPress-Camp. An open-invitation for Kenyan e-Writers of all shapes, sizes and colors.

A meetup with Kenya’s finest bloggers, poets, writers, troll-commentors, habitual re-tweeters and gutter-press. Well, speaking of the gutter-press crew, there are rumours that they finally bought new shoes and could not afford the USD 40 fee for the WordCamp, but we are launching a Kenyans4Gutter campaign in a hour on twitter, that will make sure all our various sections of bloggers are present. We love everyone equally. More on this in the last paragraph.

I am still mulling over whether to take the public means (WordCamp bus) that everyone will be taking (more fun, social, Free wi-fi c/o Safaricom etc) or whether to drive our Mint Symbiotic’s Kompressor E-240 up to the camp.

The Lou-pean part of me tells me, this is a good chance to show these doubters in our midst that coders can actually make it in life and own the best toys that money can buy. Utatumiaje Bus na una Kompressor? And the gals will LOVE it.

The other saner part of me tells me, #justToConfuseYourEnemies, vaa kawaida and move with the crowd. Be one with your peers and also, keep the haters and doubters thinking that you are as broke as they are. That this code manenos is all talk. It keeps them going. Gives them a reason to live.

The bus leaves at 9:15 and I know it is going to be fun. I was at Crayfish on the new-year eve. It was a nice place to be. Apart from the 4-k-club mosquitoes the size of a USB-port and the hippos that maraud past midnight (far from the camping area), the place is heavenly. Cool breeze, nice swimming pool, Boats to go fishing into lake Naivasha in, BIG in-camp club with nice music, 2 pool-tables, option of tents or ‘vans’ of cottages, nice food, friendly servants (waiters etc).

Then my good buddies will be there. Mugo and his beginner-skills in pool, Wamathai the gal-gaster, the ever-smiling Savvy, My small brother Kachwanya, Bwana PKukubo, Ninja Anto and 6 other people I will not mention. What better selection of friends can a coder ask for?

This is also an opportunity for me to meet people I have been dying to meet outside the office. Content people. Safaricom has given us a challenge. Show us the traffic, and we will give you the Keys to Mkwanjaville. If you do content and/data, look for me or Timo. Kuna mazuri.

Ofcourse, I will be the un-defeated guy at the pool table with a black-chalk beating up everyone. I don’t have swagger.. I have twanga. No mercy.

On the menu, ofcourse, are the BLOODY CRAYFISH. Yep. Make sure you sample some.

With that said, tupatane huko and let us do biz and have some little fun.

Back to code.

Wazi