Archive for April, 2012

The stolen laptop, ball and the iHub match

Apr 23, 2012 6 Comments by

What an eventful last 5 days! At least 16 people I know lost their ‘stuff’. Laptops, phones, wallets, hope in life, virginity… name them! The question lingers. How can Salim, a total teetotaler, lose his laptop? His tool of trade. “Ulipigwa?”, some asked. “Ofcourse not!”, I responded. “The bulge on my trousers would have scared off [...]

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4 of the most annoying types of Kenyan species I have met

Apr 19, 2012 5 Comments by

Well. Nothing techie-esque today. Acha tudiscuss wasee. Au vipi? Kwani kila saa ni hi-tech stuff? Just blowing off some steam after a long, hard but deeply satisfying day at the office. Don’t believe the blog. Don’t believe the hype. I am a simple jamaa. I focus on the simplicity and aim at attaining the ultimate [...]

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From we should do, we will do, we are doing, to we have done

Apr 12, 2012 10 Comments by

Tongue twister. I know. Unfathomable by many. I know. Incomprehensible by most. I know. Attainable by only a select few. Obviously. Most folks never go beyond the first step. It always is about what needs to be done. Whereas nothing ACTUALLY gets done. [That is why I sabotaged the ConnectedKE conference. But that is a story [...]

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*iCluster_ – The I.S.I.O.L.O. HyperComputer project finally commissioned

Apr 05, 2012 8 Comments

It all started as an Idea. A ‘what if’. An ‘I wish someone is reading this and can buy into the dream’ kind of a whimper. An ‘If ONLY I had the funding’ tyre-kick. A gut feeling that a group of Kenyans can actually do this. A need to show that we never have to [...]

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