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• Moving Camp

  Posted: January 4, 2012, 12:35 pm by mwangy

  Its been a nice ride with wordpress.com but alas man must live and growing up, sideways and laterally (are those the same?) is inevitable. The good folks at kenic and eacdirectory are offering free .me.ke domains and free hosting and yours truly got himself a nice little spot at markmwangi.me.ke Needless to say I graciously accepted the offer and have

• Moving Camp

  Posted: December 18, 2011, 12:20 pm by mwangy

  Its been a nice ride with wordpress.com but alas man must live and growing up, sideways and laterally (are those the same?) is inevitable. The good folks at kenic and eacdirectory are offering free .me.ke domains and free hosting and yours truly got himself a nice little spot at markmwangi.me.ke Needless to say I graciously accepted

• THE GADDAFI NO ONE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT

  Posted: October 21, 2011, 11:11 pm by mwangy

  This is a post borrowed from one Moreno K O’campo first published on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 1:13pm at an unknown platform but the information is the most shocking about Libyan life that I have read. Here it goes: The media has successfully painted Gaddafi as a hard-core dictator, tyrant whatever you want to

• Al-Shaboo

  Posted: October 17, 2011, 8:10 pm by mwangy

  I dont like bullies much , they tend to not be very smart or as tough as they imagine they are. The somali militia that go under the gangsta like name of al-shabab tend to act like a bunch of bullies that didnt get enough hugs from their mommas. They banned, radio, music, bras and

• Wangari Maathai

  Posted: October 8, 2011, 10:41 am by mwangy

  I avoid writing about personalities because I believe it is judgmental to claim to know what makes a person tick and to try to condense a persons actions, beliefs, and values into a couple of paragraphs. I don’t think its fair unless its a factual piece so I do not do it. Prof. Wangari Muta

• Bread in schools and Noneffective Motivation

  Posted: October 7, 2011, 2:17 pm by mwangy

  If you went to the regular boarding schools upcountry like myself during your primary/high school life then I know one item that was close to your heart for the four years and after. Its an age old food that was eaten by everyone from Jesus to the Egyptians and Mwangi as he writes this. A loaf of

• Ordinary Kenyan

  Posted: September 30, 2011, 10:31 pm by mwangy

  I have always wondered what this statement means. I mean what constitutes normal? Hardship? Hunger? Enduring sense of hopelessness? Those with the sense that the system is taking advantage of them? Perennial rule breakers and late for everything including their weddings and funerals?  There is nothing normal about anyone I know. We all have our eccentricities and very

• Xenophobia and how foreigners benefit the populace

  Posted: September 13, 2011, 9:32 pm by mwangy

  Xenophobia according to wikipedia is defined as an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which foreign or strange. It is becoming rather prevalent around these parts of late what with the influx of refugees and all sorts of nationalities dropping in to do business. The general mood is that there

• Ugalea

  Posted: September 12, 2011, 1:42 am by mwangy

  So there I was waiting impatiently in line to buy my supplies at the local shop back in my home townof Naromoru. Its a small sleepy town with nothing much to call home about and super boring to the nairobi types who look for olepolosish plans. We are getting tarmac within the town though so

• American Decline: Causes and Consequences | Al Akhbar English

  Posted: August 27, 2011, 1:27 am by mwangy

  http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/american-decline-causes-and-consequences

• Download Rain Now!

  Posted: August 6, 2011, 11:51 pm by mwangy

  I take great offence when taken for a complete moron especially by foreigners who think throwing around words like server and electromagnetic waves will throw me offguard and mesmerize me. Two australian guys were today on the news claiming they can control rain clouds using servers and beaming electromagnetic waves to the clouds and shepherd

• Half a billion Later. . .

  Posted: August 6, 2011, 11:33 pm by mwangy

  As should be obvious to anyone who has read any kenyan news in recent times , raising money for the fake famine in turkana is all the rage. Over the last week all the major telcos, blue chip companies and just about every other corporate taxpayer have been tripping over themselves to contribute their millions

• Nigeria’s agony dwarfs Gulf oil spill

  Posted: August 5, 2011, 4:06 pm by mwangy

  The reason Africa is called the dark continent is because western media simply doesn’t cover the continents issues. But then why should they?  Its a different continent all together.   http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/nigerias-agony-dwarfs-gulf-oil-spill

• Famine in the 21st century

  Posted: July 29, 2011, 1:43 pm by mwangy

  As another testament to the power of local social media to rally support for a cause and raise funds, as of the writing of this post, 30 million bob has been raised by kenyans from all walks of life to aid the redcross in their hunger relief efforts. Very commendable efforts I must say and

• Transformers Dark of the Moon

  Posted: July 19, 2011, 1:29 am by mwangy

  Ok come on with such a title you just know you are in for a ride, a Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg kinda ride. There is really no other way for you to see it than in a 3d cinema with crisps, a bunch of your pals and Sarit center today fit the bill perfectly.

• L’Hospital

  Posted: June 24, 2011, 11:41 pm by mwangy

  I think thats the name of some french mathematician that contributed to my considerable suffering in first year when calculus checked into my life. Thats not important right now, what is is the idea of handing over your life or a loved ones life to a guy in a white labcoat with a stethoscope hanging

• Ukoloni Mamboleo

  Posted: June 13, 2011, 7:55 pm by mwangy

  This is getting rediculous. Like really how long will this go on. Google just finalised scanning and uploading ALL the govenment gazette notices since alittle longer than forever. They are not downloadable. Technically they own that data. And our govenment just handed over the data. The world bank is allover the place funding the iHub

• Fringe

  Posted: May 28, 2011, 3:06 pm by mwangy

  Being the science fiction (and fact) buff that I am, I recently did a Fringe ssn3 marathon and lets just say I wasnt that impressed. It left too many questions unanswered and the cases were simply rediculous. there is this one case where ati a chick cant die because the molecules in her body are

• Local Artistes and Missed Opportunities

  Posted: May 19, 2011, 7:35 pm by mwangy

  As we say in slang iko watu wamelalia maskio.  Kenyan/east african artistes are doing themselves a major disservice and they dont seem aware of it. The kawaida ruse is to complain about piracy and mismanagement at MCSK and ungrateful fans. Ok listen. I love your music. But how do i get it? I wait for your

• When it comes to ‘development’ there is always a loser

  Posted: May 13, 2011, 10:10 pm by mwangy

  These are scenes from the neighbourhood shop which was uprooted because of a recent development across the road. Basically the new developers decided in such a neighbourhood, Coca-cola kisoks are unbecoming to the residents. I doubt the (current) residents were asked though.The kiosks were directly opposite the gate of the new development. Security was the choice

• France Telecom

  Posted: May 10, 2011, 11:27 pm by mwangy

  I am personally getting tired of the incestant bad news coming from Orange Kenya. If they are not complaining about what a raw deal the Kenya government gave them , they are firing people and hiring more frenchies. They have the franchise to the single most successful smartphone this planet has seen and all they

• Espionage

  Posted: May 5, 2011, 1:37 am by mwangy

  Today as I so happened to be torching a plant with some pals, I was enlightened as to the reasons why some cultures have very weird happenings and almost pointless rituals. The subject of choice fell on the night runners of western kenya. So the lore generally goes that there are these random guys who

• #nowfueling

  Posted: May 5, 2011, 12:24 am by mwangy

  Yani we stoop to new levels of daftness and exploitation every new week. Over the past day most fueling stations have been running out of fuel at just about the same time. When the government (Ministry of Energy) is asked whats going on they as usual claim to have nothing to do with it. As

• Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

  Posted: May 3, 2011, 6:41 pm by mwangy

  So the newest iteration of Ubuntu was released 2 days ago and my impatient self couldnt wait to hit the upgrade button. Seeing as my home link cortesy of Zuku crawls like its got a bad date waiting, I decided to go download the ISO from school. After an adventure trying to get a pc

• Repo men

  Posted: April 22, 2011, 8:31 pm by mwangy

  I watched this movie last night and the morbidity of the story was too artistic for me not to write about it. . . For those who ave not watched the flick, it is set in the future where the mortgage industry has decided to diversify into the Human Organ industry. Your organs start failing

• Ufala Inc.

  Posted: April 12, 2011, 8:37 pm by mwangy

  We are not a country anymore. And cut the crap about being sovereign n shit. Thats British cultural crap we keep vomiting and swallowing up again. We are a company that is not run by locals. We are a multinational with local workers and foreign shareholders. ask cholmondely and the java coffee guy. . they

• Useful flow chart on Radiation Exposure

  Posted: March 21, 2011, 7:18 pm by mwangy

  via @pandaboy

• Baby Season

  Posted: March 21, 2011, 6:58 pm by mwangy

  In the past 3 months I have found out 3 of my friends are either pregnant or just delivered a baby. The latter group culd seriously give MI5 a run for their pounds. This is a humongous no. of persons within my network since I did not see any of it coming. I like to

• Android and Safaricom Goldmine

  Posted: March 19, 2011, 9:14 pm by mwangy

      Ever since mid 2010, Safaricom has been selling a plethora of android based handsets most of them unlocked and at subsidized rates. The latest handset to be pimped to the populace is the Huawei ideos retailing at 8499/- bundled with 1000/- airtime and 600MB of data. A good deal anyway you splice it. This has put the

• Safaricom = Yu

  Posted: March 4, 2011, 10:01 pm by mwangy

  Yes. Mwangi the conspirator is back with a big fat bang. Common knowledge and/or wisdom alludes to the fact that we have 4 telecom operators with licenses to operate in the country. This Would be Orange, Safaricom, Airtel and Yu. Orange is primarily Government owned at 51% while France telecom holds 49% Airtel is wholly

• Ghadafee

  Posted: February 23, 2011, 10:25 pm by mwangy

  This guy should be whipped, then tasered then shot preferably in the same day. . how do you order your citizens to be bombed / shot at with .50 calibre bullets? That kinda ammo is used to immobilise trucks! I mean even being concieted has its limits. If you are gna be authoritarian and the

• Muliro Gardens

  Posted: February 23, 2011, 9:45 pm by mwangy

  To say this is the most outrageous, sickening and totally hilarious trending topic ever on twitter would be calling Gaddaffi a naughty kid. How grown men and women decided to be meeting in a park, during the day on a rickety bench to do their thing deserves a laugh. And if you dont find it

• Geek Kicks

  Posted: February 21, 2011, 12:30 am by mwangy

  Geek Kicks

• Data security

  Posted: February 20, 2011, 9:42 am by mwangy

  From somewhere on the interwebs..&nbsp

• Plans and developments

  Posted: February 19, 2011, 7:29 pm by mwangy

  Had wanted to write a ground breaking shattering post (at least to me anyway) on how the source of the nile had been known for years by akina Ptolemy and some other arab explorers back in kendo 54 AD , , they had a rough idea that there were two lakes (Lake Albert and Lake

• Ubuntu

  Posted: January 20, 2011, 10:11 pm by mwangy

  So I started blogging thinking ad be talking bout geeky stuff all the time . . . then I got derailed and now talk about the sun and whats beneath it. . . Not that I mind. It is my blog anyway.  So I figured ad talk abit bout my experience with ubuntu so far. 

• Relationships

  Posted: January 20, 2011, 9:27 pm by mwangy

  Relationships are funny things. Thats maybe why am still not in one (or so I tell myself). Funny or not they are necessary and without them nothing makes sense. Am not talking about exclusively romantic relationships but generally relations between humans be it with family, colleagues or superiors.  The only difference in the future between

• Religious Fundamentalism

  Posted: January 16, 2011, 3:22 pm by mwangy

  Religious Fundamentalism

• Facebook Generation

  Posted: January 15, 2011, 6:20 pm by mwangy

  I have heard all manner of conspiracy theories as to the origin and intent of facebook from it being a CIA front hell bent on gathering as much info on everyone as possible to it being Mark Zuckerberg’s pet project of ruling the world. I have no idea what its intentions are but such speculations

• Facebook Generation

  Posted: January 15, 2011, 6:18 pm by mwangy

  I have heard all manner of conspiracy theories as to the origin and intent of facebook from it being a CIA front hell bent on gathering as much info on everyone as possible to it being Mark Zuckerberg’s pet project of ruling the world. I have no idea what its intentions are but such speculations

• What Safaricom is testing Now

  Posted: January 15, 2011, 9:22 am by mwangy

  Cant wait!

• Idiots Guide to Mombasa Funtimes

  Posted: January 14, 2011, 11:12 pm by mwangy

  Not that am calling you an idiot just that we have to take care of everyone including the bottom of the food chain e.t.c. Now up till December of 2010 I was one of the few kenyans (all 3 of us) who had not gone down to Mombasa for any holiday of any sort. Yes

• Beautiful Destructive Force

  Posted: December 21, 2010, 5:53 pm by mwangy

  Beautiful Destructive Force

• Gotta love the Italians

  Posted: December 21, 2010, 5:48 pm by mwangy

  This is the monument outside their equivalent of the Nairobi Stock Exchange

• Pale Blue Dot

  Posted: December 5, 2010, 12:26 am by mwangy

  Your Ego ain't so big now is it

• Randomness

  Posted: December 2, 2010, 7:39 pm by mwangy

  So today was a cool day.  Started with my ol' lady flossing her new leather handbags that she got for a sweet deal in the only uncolonized country on the continent. Just before I started yawning I spotted the complimentary unisex bag they were given by the conference organizers. My oh my. If you want leather goods, get

• Engineers Bill 2009

  Posted: November 27, 2010, 10:06 pm by mwangy

  Turns out there was a bill that was approved by the cabinet governing Engineers back in June. i.e if it becomes law Engineers will be regulated like lawyers in terms of fees payable, obligations, conduct and licensing. Never heard of it till now. Read more about it here http://goo.gl/CJ0LR   Download now or preview on posterous

• Grumpy Old Guys

  Posted: November 27, 2010, 7:10 pm by mwangy

  Then there is another one. Total opposite. He can’t be called young but he has also ‘partaken of salt’(amekula chumvi) . This guy laughs at his own shadow. Dare you smile in his class and he will bawl over in hearty laughter thus creating those endless cycles coz the whole class then laughs wit (or

• Check yourself

  Posted: November 17, 2010, 10:10 pm by mwangy

  Everyone is full of it. You know what am talking bout and you know its true. We judge and complain and generally act like the dude or dudette we are pointing at while we sneer and wish them all manner of misfortune. When Sir Isaac Newton said that men are so unpredictable that they may

• Safaricom’s New Ad Idea

  Posted: November 10, 2010, 5:15 pm by mwangy

  This is an ad By Qantas, an Australian Airline http://www.youtube.com/v/ze6D-59bLX0&hl=en&fs=1 This is an ad by Safaricom for their Niko na Safaricom Theme. http://www.youtube.com/v/uIBHuqeis3U&hl=en&fs=1   Can you spot the difference? At-least they should have made them wear coloured shirts not white. . . &nbsp

• Safaricom’s New ad

  Posted: November 9, 2010, 11:33 am by mwangy

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIBHuqeis3U   Dont you just love safaricom ads? Their marketing firm is topnotch.

• Gay Marriages

  Posted: November 1, 2010, 8:56 pm by mwangy

  I really don’t see what the hullabaloo is about. its their life to live. mind your own business. Its not like Most of us are vocal about the Israeli’s blowing up Pakistani women and children. Fighting a holy war is a lame and daft argument. It worked with the Canaanites but then they didn’t have Google or  libraries. If

• Time and effort

  Posted: October 30, 2010, 9:27 pm by mwangy

  Wonder what my folks would do if I presented either of these as the product of  2 weeks of work. . .

• Lazinesness

  Posted: October 26, 2010, 11:03 pm by mwangy

  Am lazy. Like reaally lazy. But am working on it. Was thinking of ranting today but its such hard work. . . speaking of which I describe myself as a student yet never talk bout school. . .tut tut. . .am a bad school goer. . on that note why is it that we rarely

• A day full of Bargains

  Posted: October 17, 2010, 1:30 am by mwangy

      What I found there made me look and sound like a kid in a candy store. the variety of pure leather footwear was overwhelming. The shops are nicely arranged, clean and the attendants don’t even hustle you for the sale. You could go through their merchandise even make them extract samples from some

• The real size of Africa

  Posted: October 15, 2010, 10:45 am by mwangy

  Came across this graphic posted by @toneendungu on Twirra. To say I was picking up my jaw from the floor would be an understatement. The USA landmass doesnt even fill up the sahara area and yet in the atlases it appears bigger than Africa! Ladies and gentlemen it appears these colonialists really had us by

• Breast Cancer Awareness Month

  Posted: October 12, 2010, 8:39 pm by mwangy

  Seeing as am perennialy late for anything and everything (if you are a future employer or date please ignore this line) recognition of October being breast cancer awareness month is landing now. I dont know anybody with cancer. At least I don’t think I do. That being said its a terrible affliction to be accosted by and pray to

• Perceptions

  Posted: October 3, 2010, 12:27 am by mwangy

  The other day I came across this site http://youarenotsosmart.com/ . Also came across this Video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/v/btP_vy5cQq4&hl=en&fs=1  Brilliant site and video if you ask me and it got me thinking about how self conscious we are. We perceive ourselves as original authentic  unique beings unlike anyone else on the planet yet we discard the fact that we are all from the same blueprint. Your

• Illusion of choice

  Posted: September 30, 2010, 1:14 am by mwangy

  One of the principal tenets of modern democracy and civilisation is chioice. We are told we have the freedom to choose how we live, what we eat, who we bang and what we do with our money.  It all sounds very revolutionary to me that in afew short years the central power mongers could cede

• Zune vs iPod

  Posted: September 28, 2010, 6:14 pm by mwangy

  The iPod is the single biggest product to revolutionise private consumption of music right after Sony’s Walman series started feeling old and lame. The iPod was sleek, smooth and sexy as hell. Never broke down and the battery life was/is as reliable as you Grandma. It proceeded to change how music is sold, packaged and

• Music

  Posted: September 24, 2010, 1:13 pm by mwangy

  Ave always wondered what kind of juju musicians use to have such a profound effect on their fans to the extent that they, well. . . .act stupid. They are forgiven for doing things which if I was to try would earn me a tire necklace and petrol perfume. They can live recklessly, treat everyone

• Beauty in the eye of the beholder

  Posted: September 22, 2010, 10:13 am by mwangy

  Much has been said on what really defines beauty what with some saying the beautiful are not yet born others escaping into idealism and stating that everyone has inner beauty and yet others are too wasted to notice the difference.  I personally think we are full of crap. We keep telling our women not to

• Problems

  Posted: September 22, 2010, 9:45 am by mwangy

  Sometimes we get preoccupied by the small stuff and loose the overall picture. We imagine that our issues are monumental, earth shaking and possibly cataclysmic and we assign alot of nervous energy trying to solve mundane ‘problems’ . If we take a moment and think about what some of our colleagues go through everyday, what

• YuZainO Vs. Queen Bee

  Posted: September 3, 2010, 11:09 pm by mwangy

    A lot has been said bout Zain’s assault on Safaricom and how the Queen bee is going to suffer for its years of injustice meted on the hapless public (as if anyone has held a green revolver with the Safaricom logo on the barrel on their temples).   Few of those yapping bout moving

• InZainity

  Posted: August 23, 2010, 12:29 am by mwangy

  So the Indian suits at Bharti HQ’s decided this little East African success story (Safaricom) had had its run and gotten enough limelight and it about time the big boys showed up and made real money. I can only speculate as to what the strategy is but it seems the main idea is to erode

• No man is an island

  Posted: August 21, 2010, 4:26 pm by mwangy

  This week was both sad and relieving in a morbid kind of way. My grandma passed the previous week and though sad I wouldn’t get to have All-you-can-eat Ngwashe and super sweetened tea next to a roaring fire as she harasses her daughters(my aunties) to give me food even when my hands are full, I

• Making money the old school way

  Posted: August 21, 2010, 3:46 pm by mwangy

  Nowadays everybody is falling over themselves trying to make money in new exciting fancy ways like Google or Facebook. ‘regular ’ ways of making money are pushed to the curb and termed old, lame and unimaginative. All this when our world has not had any significant change in the basic structure. The rich are still

• Movies. . .

  Posted: August 6, 2010, 6:16 pm by mwangy

  So am like a serous movie buff and there is little that I love more than a seriously entertaining flick. Action packed Sci-fi are my favourite coz there is nothing as exhilirating as blowing stuff up with something really techy. .  But i also need to make sense of what is happening on screen. Now

• A log in the sand and heads buried in eyes

  Posted: August 2, 2010, 7:10 pm by mwangy

  Of late ave noticed that guys(people in general) are really fond of suffering selective amnesia when their interests are threatened.  A previous ruthless Dictator will at the drop of a hat become a humanitarian fighting for the rights of the common Mwananchi without even apologising for the past. The same effect is also applicable to huge swathes

• Vegeterians

  Posted: July 28, 2010, 12:37 am by mwangy

  This week saw in the news some lady dressed in spinach leaves perched on the pavement spreading her gospel on maintaining a rabbits diet. Now am all for freedom of speech but I think vegeterains should be knocked upside the head. Their argument is fundamentally flawed and like most religions it chooses to ignore details

• I Want The Earth Plus 5%

  Posted: July 24, 2010, 1:03 pm by mwangy

  This is a fictional story by Larry Hannigan that I was reffered to by @Ujenzibora breaks down money pretty nicely. . . Fabian was excited as he once more rehearsed his speech for the crowd certain to turn up tomorrow. He had always wanted prestige and power and now his dreams were going to come true.

• Am I special Mommy?

  Posted: July 23, 2010, 12:24 am by mwangy

  Now I believe parenting is about ensuring your kid and family has as much fun as possible in the time you have while working to leave the earth a little better than you found it whether its by inventing something new, making timeless music or starting a new race(as in new tribe or something) spending

• Broadband over power lines

  Posted: July 22, 2010, 12:09 am by mwangy

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_line_communication http://www.pcworld.com/article/114135/broadband_over_power_lines_hits_a_snag.html Had seen this one time back but was immediately distracted by a skirt wearer in the vicinity and only just seen an article that revived everything. Now am jus wondering now that kplc has all this dark fibre lying around on their masts why aren’t they trying out this stuff? after all we are the worlds guinea pig for all things new and untested (Alvaro

• Good Riddance

  Posted: July 22, 2010, 10:28 pm by mwangy

  Phew!!. . At least that’s over and done with. . .Over the past week or so its like ave been having this little cloud hanging over my head raining complete with thunderstorms. Today did a paper that’s been causing me misery for long enough and I can confidently say it “Bent Over” . .Anyhoo. .

• Some E-books I came across. . .

  Posted: July 16, 2010, 9:41 pm by mwangy

  These are some of the books ave been reading in the past few weeks. . . hope I aint breaking any laws. . .  Download now or preview on posterous theinsubordinateebook.pdf (303 KB) Download now or preview on posterous a-designingthefuturee-book.pdf (2844 KB) Download now or preview on posterous Looking-Forward-v2.pdf (1403 KB) Download now or preview

• Zuku Wimax

  Posted: July 15, 2010, 1:55 am by mwangy

  So finally the zuku Guys came over and hooked me up with their Wimax connection ! week after full payment. they had warned that it might take two weeks so atleast they dint keep me waiting too long. a total of 4 guys showed up armed to the teeth in blazing official coveralls literrally rubbing their hands

• The power of conceding

  Posted: July 15, 2010, 1:08 pm by mwangy

  A week ago as I was going about my business seated in a matatu i was presented with an unrequested theatrical perfomance between the tout and a middle aged lady. The said lady wanted to alight at a point that was clearly not a stage (twas smack dab in the middle of jogoo road) since

• Pure Kenyanness!!

  Posted: June 26, 2010, 12:56 pm by mwangy

  “Naishi, Natumaini, Najitolea daima Kenya, Hakika ya bendera Ni uthabiti wangu Nyeusi ya wananchi na nyekundu ni ya damu Kijani ni ya ardhi, nyeupe ya amani Daima mimi mkenya Mwananchi mzalendo” Daima- Eric Wainaina Have you ever wondered what makes Kenyans Kenyan? Apart from the national I.D that took months and agony to get, what

• via xkcd.com

  Posted: May 31, 2010, 11:31 pm by mwangy

  And they say we geeks don't have a sense of humor See and download the full gallery on posterous

• Blackberry GPS

  Posted: May 31, 2010, 10:11 pm by mwangy

  Over the past few days ave been trying to get the gps on my Blackberry 8830 (sold by Verizon wireless) to work with little success. .  .Google has always been my best Internet friend and as usual I fired her up and searched away. I must say the results were truly shocking. Apparently Verizon wireless(the [...]

• My new favorite tracks

  Posted: May 29, 2010, 10:08 pm by mwangy

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  These two have made it onto being amongst my favorite tracks . . . . .they are both from the movie The Losers . It aint much of a flick but its a good way to pass a boring afternoon. . . .. U. R. A. Fever by The Kills  Download now or listen on posterous [...]

• The score for the Safaricom panoramic / Patriotic AD

  Posted: May 26, 2010, 12:16 am by mwangy

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    Download now or listen on posterous Holst-_jupiter.ogg (7027 KB) Finally found the score for that great Safaricom ad with the panoramic shots of various sites of the country. . . .even have a calendar for it. . . .Enjoy! . . .it starts somewhere in the middle so be patient.

• How Money Works

  Posted: May 26, 2010, 7:15 pm by mwangy

  This week I have made it my mission to understand everything to do with money, its markets ,origins and possibly future. . . I have thus endeavored on a conquest of magnanimous proportions (to my standards anyway) to get to the bottom at our modern master. Now to understand this epic tale , I have to [...]

• Another Rant

  Posted: May 19, 2010, 3:27 am by mwangy

  I just dont get it. . .I have done all the browsing and googling possible and I just dont get their argument. . . . .so orange , yu and zain want the 3G license fee to be reduced because . . . . .safaricom has a foothold in the 3g broadband sector?. . .so [...]

• An Open Letter to Prof. Magoha

  Posted: May 19, 2010, 3:06 am by mwangy

  Dear Prof. Magoha, This week has been a tough one huh? First your budget got all ruined seeing as renovation costs are gonna shoot through the roof, then you got on to the news for all the wrong reasons (and with the wrong tie!) then you get a young minister breathing down your neck and [...]

• Why Safaricom will remain no. 1

  Posted: May 15, 2010, 5:06 pm by mwangy

  For the past several days ave tried all the different mobile telco companies in the data segment and only Safaricom lets you do what you wanted to do. . . I took up the YU unlimited offer for 50 bob per day and all I can say is that I have exhausted the expletives I [...]

• The iPad

  Posted: May 12, 2010, 2:29 pm by mwangy

  Now where do I start am typing this from an ipad andoy oh boy is this the shiznit!!! I now understand why some people swear on it and would rather save up a couple of thousand bucks to buy a slate of microprocessors,solenoids ,metal and glass. . . . The experience is so worth it. [...]

• Continuity and Change

  Posted: May 10, 2010, 11:40 pm by mwangy

  Today as I watched the safcom ad dissin the gprs driven rival gsm data ntworks, I remembered one of my first lessons on relationships, heirachy and power. Generally those who have high mental acuity , can easily decipher or detect patterns, and can harness charm and know their way around chicks tend to be the [...]

• Why we do what we do . .

  Posted: May 2, 2010, 10:32 pm by mwangy

  This weekI got a blackberry for myself . . . Actually got two and am jotting this down from its wonderful qwerty keyboard . . . Anyhoo when I sat down to reflect and think why we do what we do when we do it I came to conclude it is because of our relationships [...]

• A Kenyan’s Guide To Kenya, Vol. I

  Posted: April 24, 2010, 5:19 pm by mwangy

  Unashamedly stolen from an Email forward. . .lol .. . Enjoy. . A Kenyan’s Guide To Kenya, Vol. I I’ve often been terribly disappointed by the tourist guidebooks written about Kenya. Most of the time they tell you stuff you already know, like “you can go on safari and see some lions.” That’s probably why [...]

• Making an informed decision

  Posted: April 24, 2010, 1:35 pm by mwangy

  Am still on the constitution and Clergy demanding unreasonable things from the faithful who still flock to them despite having their young sons molested in the confession box. Insisting on chucking the Kadhis courts on the part of the church displays that they are eithre very ignorant & arrogant or someone else is pulling their [...]

• Are you really as bright as you think? . . .

  Posted: April 20, 2010, 9:58 pm by mwangy

  Leo has been too long. . . I move for Kenya to adopt daylight saving time n slash the day to end @ 3pm . . yea yea I know tough luck. . Anyhoo, was munching on som succulent roast maize leo that I had bought for 10 bob when a conversation I had overheard [...]

• Mean prank. .

  Posted: April 18, 2010, 10:58 pm by mwangy

  She aint in a nice mood. . .lol. . . .

• Linen : Dirty or not

  Posted: April 18, 2010, 9:21 pm by mwangy

  Today has been a long day. . . Spent most of the day washing stuff and in the breaks was tweeting and face booking and gmailing all at once. . . and they say we cant multi task. . . .Anyway, one of my friends who is a fan of all things technological like me [...]

• Growing Up

  Posted: April 17, 2010, 11:56 pm by mwangy

  One of the times I looked forward to while growing up was when I wouldn’t have to be answerable to anyone and ad decide whether to wake up or sleep in till midday, whether I would eat or not or decide to eat junk all week etc.. . . was totally convinced that this was [...]

• The CoE : Why they are real experts

  Posted: April 13, 2010, 10:50 pm by mwangy

  Being a comrade and not liking having some guys gloat and give themselves titles whose value I don’t immediately recognise, I dint like that a bunch of lawyers were being called experts on the constitution. . .I mean have they written 20 other constitutions for other countries for them to qualify as experts? I thus [...]

• Draft Constitution and an Enormously Gullible Public

  Posted: April 12, 2010, 5:32 pm by mwangy

  Something is seriously wrong with us if we are going to be divided over a new constitution. Why no one is seeing the plot by these politicians is beyond me. . . the new draft constitution will seriously cut the MP’s powers and influence and though they will retain the mheshimiwa title they wont be [...]

• The origin of Makmende

  Posted: April 9, 2010, 9:17 pm by mwangy

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• My Bucket list

  Posted: April 9, 2010, 7:38 pm by mwangy

  Everyone's gonna die. . . . that's right, including you. . . Was at a funeral at the end of '09 and the pastor at the church presiding over the service gave a sermon that I actually listened to. . .he lamented on how guy simply refuse to acknowledge that they are going to die and thus sort [...]

• Writers Block

  Posted: April 3, 2010, 2:35 pm by mwangy

  Sometimes u just dont have anything to write home (or anywhere else for that matter) about and you feel compelled to submit something but cant get anything out of your fingers. . . pretty frustrating especially if you are being timed, theres an invigilator on your neck and the guy next to you is scribbling [...]

• life in Technicolor. . .

  Posted: March 29, 2010, 5:37 pm by mwangy

  so was wondering the other day wot I wuld ave been like if I was born female, or to a filthy rich family. . . or white. . . . .I stopped thinking. . . . ave been upcountry for abit n I must say it rocks more than Nairoberry anyday. . . life is cheap, [...]

• Safaricom unlimited Wimax

  Posted: February 23, 2010, 11:10 pm by mwangy

  Safaricom it turns out won’t call the governments bluff and have launched a service offering where residential consumers get unlimited wimax coverage for 6,000/- bob a month. I am not sure what speeds are guaranteed or whether there are any setup fees. . . . this will at least see them dump some of that excess bandwidth [...]

• Arungah.Hellon.2012

  Posted: February 18, 2010, 10:29 pm by mwangy

  So Esther Arungah sleeps in some married dudes house together with a bunch of other women (sounds like a harem|), has a fiancé who is essentially a criminal, some Timberlake dude wants her, and this makes the news because? . . . .I dont get it. . . . .she is right . . [...]

• Of business plans and headless chickens. . . .

  Posted: February 15, 2010, 11:09 pm by mwangy

  These Days business news is just as entertaining as the regular news that’s full of illiterate loud-mouthed old men who have worked hard to steal maize n oil n just bout anything not bolted to the floor  talking bout development and other things that they don’t really care about like the constitution. . . . This [...]

• Looking for life on the moon while people die hungry . . . .

  Posted: February 11, 2010, 12:12 pm by mwangy

  The world systems as they are at the moment are simply ridiculous. .. The U.S.A (self appointed global police and guardian of humanity) spends billions on arms research/ looking for microbes on mars and fighting pointless wars in oil rich countries while guys in sudan are dying from anything between malaria, a bullet or no [...]

• Are We Really Free?

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:00 pm by mwangy

  The other day had an intense discussion with a friend as to what the true definition of freedom was. . . .. I argued sinc my behind aint in jail, then ama s free as a bird. . . She laughed in a way that told me ‘Boy u got a long way to go.. [...]

• Behind closed doors

  Posted: October 24, 2009, 3:26 am by mwangy

  Of late when I asked / inquired from the various tel-co customer care services as to when they will be offering unlimited plans on mobile/wireless, they have been kinda dodgy and non committal always promising that something was cooking  and asked for my patience. . . . . .Being a not particularly rich taxpayer and [...]

• A Way Out of The Murky Internet Fiasco

  Posted: October 16, 2009, 12:21 am by mwangy

  Observing the local Internet scene with the ISP’s on one end and the government on the other ,one cant help but laugh at the whole mess. . . .here we have a government that promised fast cheap access to the Internet and is being held hostage by never ending questions as to why the Internet [...]

• Antivirus Market

  Posted: October 3, 2009, 9:41 pm by mwangy

  Microsoft Yesterday released a free antivirus for its LEGITIMATE customers. This is primarily for the users who dont even bother to acquire any antivirus product. .. . including the free ones. . . . The user base that is unprotected must be huge for microsoft to take such a step akin to the launch of theier [...]

• Of Monopolies and Conspiracies

  Posted: September 29, 2009, 12:03 am by mwangy

  Just like the average kenyan . . or human being for that matter. .. .I don’t like being taken for a long bumpy ride. . .problem is our corporations have no idea how to make money if they dont resort to thuggish behavior. . . .this has led me to scrutinize all gift horses from [...]

• Techvolution

  Posted: August 31, 2009, 12:03 am by mwangy

  Weird word but its what I call evolution of technology. . . . . .from the first wheel to probes on the moon (I still dont believe anyone passed through the van-allen radiation belt and landed on the moon ) to a world wide web of  virtual pages that allow you to buy your groceries [...]

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