It’s the first day of school for me, I’ve been here every day for a week but this is what I’m counting as my first day in that I’ll be fully settled down. It’s taken almost a week to get a room. Things in school have been, as my dad is sometimes fond of saying, ELEPHANT.

Our VC, in his infinite wisdom accepted to admit 3500 freshmen. He not only admitted them but he also decided to house them on campus never mind that we don’t have nearly enough beds to house them and us the over probably 8000 students who were to join them a week after. Most of the opening week was spent running about campus scrambling for a meagre number of rooms left (according to the lottery that we had there we only under 600 beds left).

I’m back in school now after a 4 month long holiday so I thought this would be the best time to reflect on what I’ve been up to and achieved. Looking back, I feel this has been one of my more productive holidays; of course as at the end of the holiday I don’t think I’ve achieved as much as I should have in that amount of time but for the first time that doesn’t bother me as much as it usually would.

Hey guys I’m at the ihub for the Barcamp Nairobi and today I’m going to attempt a live blog. It’s lunch time now and there no talks going on now but they begin in 10 mins keep this page open for updates. Catch you in 10 mun

Talking with Andrew from Ujamaa Ventures giving me advice on my application’the one I’ve been developing the last 3 months, hard questions with no answers :D
Now on the talk on Innovation Ecosystem by Tony
We’re trying to shine on our own yet we need to work together
Things we need to do

The last one of these I attended was the very first one in 2010 and it was a lot of fun I hope you’ll be there…

BarCamp is an international network of user-generated unconferences primarily focused around technology and the Web. By definition, an unconference is a participant-driven meeting that tries to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees, sponsored presentations, and top-down organization.

Today I’d like to put to you something that you may have noticed, or not. Whenever you watch news these days and the government is mentioned it is referred to as “the Jubilee Government” which is very accurate as they control both the executive, the legislature (both houses) and, depending on whom you ask, the judiciary too. I can’t really fault the media for reporting something that is an obvious fact but I think it’s time we stopped referring to them as “the Jubilee government” and just call them “the government”

Hey everyone? How we doing? This is just a quick update to let you know that my editor is taking a personal break that will last until the end of next month, August. He said that he needs some “me time” something I completely understand. Editing my work can not be the easiest thing in the world and I appreciate everything he does, pro bono, around here.

I don’t think he’s walking away from his computer but you get the point [image from http://radargaming.net]

This however leaves me in the unfortunate position of having to edit my own work, something I don’t particularly like so I’m contemplating taking a break while he does. That doesn’t mean that I won’t be writing, I’ll just write and not post until he comes back so I can dump it on him! Evil I know but it’s his own fault for getting me used to his awesome skills.

Some time back, Safaricom, Kenya’s major carrier, had a promotion in which the main prize was 10 million bob (about 115,000 USD); doesn’t look like much converted into dollars. Nonetheless, I was convinced I’d win. Why? I had a feeling.

That feeling was wrong, obviously, but while I did have it, I wondered exactly what I’d do with such a large amount of money (felt it was large until I converted it into dollars, now it seems like peanuts). I made some basic plans that I now want to share with you guys.

The other day I heard of a new app called HelloFood. If you’ve read this blog much, you’d know that food is one of my favourite things in the world (up there with sleep and computers) so I decided to check it out. That I’m writing about an app and an app that is built for Kenya is something I consider yet another milestone in my blogging career.

HelloFood is a service that allows you to order food from a variety of restaurants for delivery. They have apps for android and iPhone and for those who don’t use any of those platforms, like me, they have a webapp that you can use, it requires your phone browser be able to run javascript which most smartphone browsers do.

I’m blank today, but I saw this and laughed, hope it brings some joy for you too.

Seen on http://dilbert.com

For today, this won’t be a lengthy post. I attended my aunt’s funeral yesterday; she died a week ago and was only 3 years older than me. I was one of the pallbearers, the first time I’ve done that or really touched a coffin.

What struck me about it was that she was so young, 25, she had barely lived her life. This got me thinking of all the things that I postpone thinking that I’ll have time later, but that’s not necessarily true. I could fall sick and be dead in a couple of weeks like her. I need to make better use of my time spend it with loved ones and not postpone such things until later.