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Quick hits

– Wizzy (leveraging locality) , neat program that allows wikipedia to be used offline in schools that can’t afford to be online all the time. Also check out their linux thin clients and the digital courier that allows “delayed surfing.”

– Black Stars shining on and off the pitch.

– Blogging Africa’s World […]

On Sandaks

This post at Cock and Bull Stories took me back to my Sandak days.

I was into Sandaks like a problem. Like Ken writes Sandaks made shoes affordable for the masses. Before Sandaks convincing your parents to shell out chums for non-essential shoes (i.e. either school shoes or the obligatory Sunday-best shoes) was a […]

My stable

Inspired by Bankelele.

I’m a buy and hold kinda person and unfortunately when I was buying these stocks I was a broke-ass chick who had just discovered this thing could the stock market (nothing much has changed, I’m still broke-ass) and I couldn’t invest as much as I wanted other than this small ka-stash I’d […]

Safaricom recruiting in the U.S. and U.K

This landed in my in box today:

Safaricom is looking for Kenyans working in the US and the UK who would be interested in meeting us to discuss career prospects especially Engineers, however, we will meet any other professional Kenyans who are interested in returning home to work. We will be going to Birmingham, UK […]

Apologies for the lack of posting

…been busy working on updating Mzalendo (check out the latest updates and have you linked to us yet?) so that we can start keeping these fat lazy cats in check.

Open Source radio show on remittances

From Radio Open Source folks. I know there are many of you out there who have something to add to this discussion (note show is this Thursday so get on it). If you are interested in participating in the show, please email Brendan: brendan-at-radioopensource.org You can also leave your comments at this link .

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Quick hits

– Hash get’s his manifesto published (Yeah!).

– For those people who are thinking about doing projects in Africa and Kenya in particular, please read this report by MIT students who were recently working on several projects. Why? First, it shows that you can have your cake AND eat it (M’s post notwithstanding). Being […]

Quick hits…

First, thanks to everyone who left a comment on packed lunch trauma…wonderful memories.

– How social networks are transforming our world

– A good news story from Kenya, the Kibera Community Youth Programme.

– How it really works….

– We desperately need to inject this in our education system.

– For the […]