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Annular Solar Eclipse as seen in Nairobi

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:50:34 +0000

Despite the heavy cloud cover in Nairobi, I managed to get a few pictures of the annular solar eclipse today morning. Enjoy!

Update:

I especially liked these photos as well by Paula @ Wildlife Direct.

More photos.

Water Engineers anyone?

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:53:00 +0000

I can’t say I’m too shocked to hear that Kenya gets enough rainfall to supply up to 7 times its current population. After seeing the floods in the Coast and North Eastern Kenya over the past few weeks, there’s no doubt that we in Kenya get quite a bit of water.

Question is what to do with it. Apart from Hydro Electricity and Rice Farming, there’s no real use being put to the lots of water (apart from consuming it of course).

I wonder if there’s any institution/organisation that is planning/is doing anything towards water harvesting. I say institution because the government seems to be preoccupied in other things – elections mostly.. How I wish somehow that the running of government and the policy making bit could work properly and independently.

Some university students and professors could actually take up this and turn it into a research project, get relevant info.. apparently the technology is out there that allows economic water harvesting. This could be a way of bridging the LARGE GAP between University and Society/Business/Improving Life in Kenya ?

rains

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:35:00 +0000

it is finally raining and we thank God for that.. Hopefully it will be sufficient… so that watu wanaweze kukula… it’s very depressing seeing one part of the country suffering without food or water, yet another part of the country with plenty… and no way (or will?) to bring the two together…

drought

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:20:00 +0000

yet again millions of kenyans are facing starvation… nothing that the Government couldn’t have predicted… yet they spent millions campaigning for and against the consitution while some CITIZENS were wondering whether they were going to survive the next month let alone the next year…

One wonders… a good number of middle eastern countries hardly experience drought… yet.. Kenya… some parts have excess of harvest from produce while others have excess of drought…. we are the same country.. .right?

yet our government is more concerned about survival politics that actually caring for it’s citizens… well not just the govenrment.. seriously if politics can be classified as addictive… many Kenyans are hooked to it…

Orange or Banana … I think they are all the same… Actually we need both fruits… the nutrients present in both of them are complimentary… and I hear that Orange juice can actually act as a preservative when prepared as fruit salad with bananas…

mhhh..!

If only we could give our CITIZENS oranges bananas maize beans wheat and even better solve the drought problem once and for all … there are too many water bodies in Kenya… and definately no lack of brains … (I hope)