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 [...]
Raila once quoted me and said, “Wameona Simba amenyeshewa na ametulia, wakadhani ni paka mkubwa”. The sad Google swahili translator processes this as: “The see lion in rain. He has relax. They think big pussy” Well, thanks to Mblayo, I got this disturbing video of the Zain truck: BendOver jibe at Safaricom HQ The Zain [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
