Dedan Kimathi “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

Barack Obama “I think when you spread the wealth around it is good for everybody.”

Archive for ‘May, 2009’

Open Source Applications Case for Business

Open Source Applications Case for Business

Supportive Documents:
The open-source model has a lot to offer the business world. It’s a way to build open standards as actual software, rather than paper documents. It’s a way that many companies and individuals can collaborate on a product that none of them could achieve alone. It’s the rapid bug-fixes and the changes that the [...]

Kites can power cities. Or can’t they?

Kites can power cities. Or can’t they?

As the world continues to sulk under the threat of imminent armageddon, hope comes to us from the most unexpected place, kites!
Apparently if kites are flown high enough for long enough we can generate enuff energy to power huge cities. This is certainely an innovative solution to fighting the problem of global warming. Me suggests [...]

Tulipe! An innovative online/mobile payment gateway.

Tulipe! An innovative online/mobile payment gateway.

I rarely excited about start ups in Kenya because like many of mine they dont seem to get enough support from industry players and government. However just when you think innovation is dead someone somewhere unleashes a stunning and brilliant idea. This someone is Kenneth Ngetha 22, a 4th year student at the prestigious Strathmore [...]

Does Kenya need a Dictator? of Democrazy and AID

This is an article written by my friend Kennedy Oduor. In it he gives his reasons why Kenya needs a dictator. I have some sympathy for what he says because if you look at the progress of Rwanda under President Kagame or Uganda under President Museveni it has been relatively more dramatic and more smooth [...]

Kenyan Horror Movie Banned

The Kenyan government was so scared by a Kenyan made horror movie they decided to ban it.  When producer Joseph Kinuthia created his movie he only wanted to give people a taste of horror Kenyan Style.
His movie titled Otto the blood bath is a story about an Old man who comes back to haunt his [...]

See the Universe with the World Wide Telescope

See the Universe with the World Wide Telescope

Hi Folks,
Would you like to tour the universe. Travel accross galaxies and see new and interesting things. Microsoft is providing the world with unique access to Telescopes that collect information from space and allows you to travel millions of light years in a matter of seconds. Who said that we cannot bend time?
Here is the [...]

Flying Man

Flying Man

Ever since the dawn of man. Man has always wanted to fly. This is what led to the imaginative drawings of Genius Leonardo Davinci and the experiments of the Wright brothers which gave birth to the airplane as we now know it.
However Dutchman Ueli Gegenschatz seeks to fulfill the dream of flight in a [...]

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