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	<title>Thus Spaketh Idd Salim</title>
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	<description>Chief developer of KeleleMobile, Zunguka and Sembuse</description>
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		<title>Hacking mPesa for fun and profit [Part 1 of 4]</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/09/01/hacking-mpesa-for-fun-and-profit-part-1-of-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I always am up for a big challenge. Ask all the neighbor&#8217;s daughters in my estate and they will testify. So, over the last week, since the inception of the pZ gateway, I have been privileged to have a-lot of Spare time to study the internal aspects of Mpesa, especially the IIS-based (cringe!!) web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The inexplicable madness of the 999/98 #RedCalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, yesterday after coding from 9am to 10PM, I was just chilling and billing while waiting for the killing as I continue my money-machining. I decided to watch a comedy as a warm-down. I slotted Michael McIntyre Wembley DVD and as i laughed my glutes off,  I logged to on 2go as went to the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is Zain celebrating 2-1 on the 83rd Minute?</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/23/is-zain-celebrating-2-1-on-the-83rd-minute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/23/is-zain-celebrating-2-1-on-the-83rd-minute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symbiotic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safaricom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raila once quoted me and said, &#8220;Wameona Simba amenyeshewa na ametulia, wakadhani ni paka mkubwa&#8221;. The sad Google swahili translator processes this as: &#8220;The see lion in rain. He has relax. They think big pussy&#8221; Well, thanks to Mblayo, I got this disturbing video of the Zain truck: BendOver jibe at Safaricom HQ The Zain [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>It is official, Safaricom concedes. Blocks all Calls to Zain</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/19/it-is-official-safaricom-concedes-blocks-all-calls-to-zain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/19/it-is-official-safaricom-concedes-blocks-all-calls-to-zain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mpesa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please let me put in 7 laughs Kwanza for Safcom. &#8211; Ha&#8230; Ha&#8230; Ha&#8230; Ha&#8230; Ha&#8230; Ha&#8230; Ha&#8230;! Michael Joseph was ranting on KTN as 2 PM today about this deal. Thanks to the new Zain Tarrif. You can now call for3 bob per minute to ANY network in Kenya. Safaricom has BLOCKED all calls [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>FaceBook fast approaching the plateau phase in Kenya</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/18/facebook-fast-approaching-the-plateau-phase-in-kenya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/18/facebook-fast-approaching-the-plateau-phase-in-kenya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Symbiotic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is sad. Honestly, really sad. I sat with Buju the other day and he asked me : &#8220;Salim. Wewe huwezi unda your own Facebook na venye code unaimesea?&#8221;. My response is the same respose I once gave DjCK, Okech and Sebi. &#8220;Put me in a position that I won&#8217;t have to worry about rent [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Interview with Google</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/14/my-interview-with-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/14/my-interview-with-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google and Africa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/?p=431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, blame my exclusive ownage of the words &#8216;idd salim&#8216; on google, my rich CV and list of systems done and out there, or just plainly the references I have, but a week after my 28th Birthday, google came calling&#8230; Their main point of reference was my Xing Profile. Alot of my facebook, gmail, symbiotic, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>2Go is officially the ikkiest of the Ikkie &#8211; Facebook beware!</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/08/2go-is-officially-the-ikkiest-of-the-ikkie-facebook-beware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/08/2go-is-officially-the-ikkiest-of-the-ikkie-facebook-beware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, let me just say, Chema Chajiuza, kibaya chajitembeza. It is rare I blog about a non-Kenyan product of any stature, but Good code is Good code. Give credit where it&#8217;s due. I am not an Anti-Mxit person as I admire anything Java, but The fact that Even After about 100 pages of Full-page Ads [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should Google pounce now, or wait a little longer?</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/03/should-google-pounce-now-or-wait-a-little-longer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/08/03/should-google-pounce-now-or-wait-a-little-longer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google and Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google. nexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iddsalim]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fibre is here. Actually it was here, the NO-fibre camp cut it, it was restored by the YES-fibre team etc&#8230; etc&#8230; And the beat goes on. I was adviced not to blog today and I am pissed off by some idiotic fellas I had an unfortunate fate of entering into a business deal with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are Kenyan Coders victims of Zeno&#8217;s Dichotomy?</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/07/27/are-kenyan-coders-victims-of-zenos-dichotomy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/07/27/are-kenyan-coders-victims-of-zenos-dichotomy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[calculus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my study of Calculus, I delved a bit into the pre-calculus era and I came across a very interesting concept by Zeno of Elea. The most famous of Zeno’s paradoxes is a race between a tortoise and the legendary Achilles called, appropriately, the Achilles. Zeno contends that if the tortoise has a head start, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>A tough decision, for a tough coder. Google comes calling!</title>
		<link>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/07/23/a-tough-decision-for-a-tough-man-google-comes-calling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iddsalim.com/blog/2010/07/23/a-tough-decision-for-a-tough-man-google-comes-calling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idd Salim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, yesterday, as always, I was just hacking some network that a certain client had authorized me to do medium-risk penetration testing on and I got an SMS. &#8216;new email from google&#8217;. Normally, I have configured my SMS deamons powered by www.tumasms.com to only alert me (via sms) on emails from Mike of Zim, Mbugua, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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