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Road Traffic Accidents

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:57:25 +0000

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

50 reasons why Christ suffered and died

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:54:43 +0000

I’m currently listening to this audio book by John Piper. A PDF version of this book is available here.

Peas, Drivers, Nairobi

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:58:32 +0000

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:

Matatu Man

Exactly where is he going?

And the law enforcers far too many times are the ones that break the rules:

One way street, but uta do what.

For the geeks: Larry Wall on Religion

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:14:46 +0000

Interesting:

http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/06/1343222&mode=thread&tid=145

Scroll down to Q7.

Also check out the 4-bit faith of a Christian geek based on Larry Wall’s 2-qubit metaphor

1 year on: His Faithfulness

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:06:54 +0000

One year and a few days on, we removed our ‘anniversary’ cake from the depths of the freezer, and let it defrost for about 12 hours

One year has flown and we are grateful to Yahweh for his faithfulness in taking us through it.

iHUB: Motivation

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:04:35 +0000

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 each other. The goal was to create an environment where (hopefully) cool world class products could be developed and sustained. There are many great developers around but many complain about access to bandwidth and servers. In addition to this, many business people looking for software are sometimes at a loss when it comes to tracking down good developers. The iHUB will be the place to be for all these people.

iHUB is a realization of this, and I’m really excited about what will be happening after the March 3 launch. It is quite an experiment, and the iHUB advisors admittedly do not have all the answers to some of the questions being posed by many. However it is worth doing, and I guess learning shall be done as it evolves.

There is loads of widespread support coming in for this, meaning that the local tech community has been yearning for such a space as this. However the iHUB is just but a small cog in the wheel that will drive Nairobi (or will it be Malili?) towards being the Silicon Valley of Africa.

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Visit & mark this in your readers – http://www.ihub.co.ke and keep up to date with the latest on the iHUB.

There’s also a design contest on for the iHUB logo which has a $500 price tag so do not miss out on that!

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.

Crowdsourcing: Haiti Earthquake

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:44:36 +0000

In the aftermath of the Earthquake in Haiti, an instance of Ushahidi’s engine is now at http://haiti.ushahidi.com. If you happen to know anyone there, please let them know about this.

Impunity – Uta do wot?

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:13:23 +0000

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:

New iPhone app: iScribe – Stories, Publishing on the go

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:13:02 +0000

African Pixel (AP) has recently launched its first product for the iPhone – iScribe.

iScribe brings old school journaling to the new age of mobility and the internet. Making it simple to capture life’s moments in a fun way and on the move. You don’t have to wait to get back home to record the experience. You can capture it as it happens – in text, voice, images and video! Get all aspects of your experience as it happens!

AP’s founder Wilfred Mworia is no stranger to software development, particularly mobile applications having worked on various platforms previously. AP’s focus is on smartphone apps, primarily on the iPhone, Symbian and Android platforms.

The world is going mobile and phones are becoming more and more sophisticated (and relatively affordable), and AP look to be well positioned to take advantage of this.

Get iScribe from the iTunes store for only $1.99.