Archive for Zunguka

Meeting Michael Joseph tomorrow

Oct 19, 2010 1 Comment by

I finally get to meet the Don himself. The man with the plan. The Ikkiest of the Ikkie.  good tribute for Heroes day. What a coincidence! Most one-dimensional thinkers would classify me as an ANTI-SAFARICOM blogger because I have no shame or reservations when it comes to pointing out what they do wrong. The same [...]

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5 Reasons why Safaricom is driving people inZain

Sep 13, 2010 5 Comments by

Yes. We know. This is Kenya. Might is right and even if you can bite, you don’t stand a chance in a fight. It does not matter what you know and what you can do. What matters is who you know and who you can do. That is why we have a city full of [...]

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Ohh Happy day, Ohhh API day!!

Jul 20, 2010 19 Comments by

Great day today for Kenyan coders. Ok, let us say, EastAfrican Community coders, for political correctness. I don’t even know how to break this news, so I will just do it my plain no-beating-around-her-bushes method. No, the Octopus has not predicted that Safaricom, MTN and Zain will start supporting local innovations. No. The octopus would [...]

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My Interesting half-day at Safaricom headquarters, Westlands

Jul 14, 2010 13 Comments

So, Today at 9:54am, I checked in after a thorough security search for metals and other things like screw drivers, hacksaws and pangas etc; stuff that can be used to HACK servers. (Fck! As I blog here, I remembered just I LEFT MY ID THERE!) So we were welcomed with the usual ‘leteni IDs’ Kenyan [...]

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