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Audio books are quite a productive way to spend the 2-3 hours daily commute to and from work. I am currently listening to an audio version of the book, The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns, the current president of World Vision US. Richard Stearns book is rather relevant to us in Africa, despite being [...]
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Road Traffic Accidents
Alarming statistics from the WHO on road accidents: 90% of deaths occur in low or medium income countries yet High income countries have 50% of registered vehicles. http://www.nghealthcareeurope.com/media/media-news/infographics/091126-HealthEU-RoadAccidents.png
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Peas, Drivers, Nairobi
Sunny Bindra has a brilliant blog post on our Kenyan roads and the drivers on them, and particularly his encounter with Mr Pea Brain. How many of Mr(s) Pea Brain have you met today, or perhaps we joined the peas for the day? Sample this photo: Exactly where is he going? And the law enforcers [...]
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iHUB: Motivation
Skunkworks was conceived with the idea of bring together Nairobi (and Kenyan) techies together and really kicked off in early 2007. From the onset we had the idea of having a central location where guys could come in and utilize fast internet, access local servers to test out their applications while bouncing off ideas with [...]
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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.
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Tags: Annular, Creation, Eclipse, Nature, Solar
Impunity – Uta do wot?
This is a one way turning – It is only legal to turn left into the side road. If the cops do it (I doubt it was an ‘emergency situation): So can we:
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Strathmore University hosted an open session where a few interesting projects done by people around the skunkworks community got presented. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (who by the way invented the WWW) was the chief guest. Among the projects were: pesapal done by Liko Agosta – Verviant jahazi done by Mugambi – VST iScribe + Afrinnovator by [...]
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Tags: Internet, www
Professional Farmer?
A good friend of mine, let’s call him Farmer K, has ventured into vegetable farming and I got to look at his project this past weekend. On about an eighth of an acre, he has put up a green house and has planted about 2000 tomato plants complete with drip irrigation, as well as about [...]
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Phillip M. Verges – Founder & CEO of New Market Technology Inc had some interesting thoughts on fund raising as well as the unique position that Kenya, and Africa at large has as an emerging market. Investors are not investing in your success (I have never looked at startup funding from this point of view [...]
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Do We Care?
I was recently told that a mother and her two kids died last weekend after being hit by a vehicle as they tried to cross Mombasa Road. Ever since Mombasa road was expanded (towards Athi) and recarpeted, it has become a death trap. The Standard has a story on this. The main danger spots are [...]
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