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My Beef with YouTube and NTV Uganda

Jun 28, 2010 19 Comments by

Yesterday was a VERY sad day for me, an ardent Youtube user. Well, as my confides might know, I was living in Uganda from 2004 to 2008. The I realized that unless I was selling matoke, there was no place for a coder like me there. I was always speaking Greek and talking of ‘advanced [...]

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Of genius Kenyans and the ‘yangu-ni-yangu’ curse

Apr 20, 2010 3 Comments by

Long time ago, when the word ‘gay‘ meant ‘to be happy’, I used to do ALL aspects of a system myself. From idea, conceptualization, wire-frames, testing, debugging, installing etc. This was mainly due to the misguided Idea that: No one around was good enough to do exactly what I wanted and I had to do [...]

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Mpesa downtimes – Safaricom NOT to blame

Apr 19, 2010 15 Comments by

Last week, I called my landlord to ask her why there was no water in my apartment. She told me,  “pigia city council uwaulize. I just connect you to water. Not provide it.” So I packed my stuff and moved to the leafy suburbs where the taps never run dry. Also, Last week [what an [...]

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Symbiotic to release Mpesa/Zap PayBill API to Kenya Developers in May

Mar 27, 2010 45 Comments

Code-Named Gandalf Symbiotic Developer Labs will soon chip in its 2 bytes in the coding social social responsibility. Safaricom/Zain has NOT released or shown any signs of being in willingness or position to release any developer tools to enable the 17 real coding geniuses in Kenya, the thousand of wannabes and the tens of thousands [...]

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