Earlier in Januar 2006, the ecoblog Treehugger covered an interesting story on Arvind Gupta who is well known for developing toys out of trash / waste material and publishing books on various subjects. The “tinkerer and toy-maker”, as he is quoted in this article by India Together, “has dedicated his life to demystifying the abstruse [...]

“There is no doubt that the market has spoken in a big way. This leaves no doubt in the capacity of our economy to finance well-structured viable ventures” … Esther Koimett, Investment Secretary, as quoted in today’s DN on KenGen’s IPO. I am not such an expert on private investment like Bankelele and his commentators, [...]

Lady Kiboko, who diligently supervises all human activities on the balcony, had an unpleasant encounter with wood worms (anobium punctatum) right after her birth. Since all attempts to persuade these uninvited visitors to go away and look for another host failed, Mr Kamau wa Gitau suggested that I should bath her in kerosene for about [...]

Dear Diary, today I’ve come across a nice bedroom set from Kenya’s leading discounter Nakumatt: While I can well imagine a lot of customers falling for this kind of interior design for the simple lack of an own taste (or mabye because the’ve seen this kind of style in USamerican TV shows), there’s only one [...]

“There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t*“ Fellow blogger Mzeecedric recently bought himself a new DELL notebook and if I remember well, the first thing he did after starting his new computer toy was to format the main partition in order to install his [...]

The German Cultural Centre, also known as the Goethe-Institute, recently published a small flyer aptly named “Am Ball mit Goethe” to promote the upcoming World Cup. The GI, whose job is to promote German as a foreign language and the German Culture abroad (in Kenya @ Maendeleo (ya Wanawake) House, next to the French Cultural [...]

That’s for you, Mbuzi :-) P.S. Link of the Week: http://www.anythingbutipod.com :-)

Despite the fact that I am a lousy photographer and way too lazy to further edit my digital images on this old 19″ CRT monitor (which just comes with a horrible gamma value that can’t be adjusted no matter what I try on the Nvidia GFX settings), I just turned PRO on flickr.com. Aterere…The US-$ [...]