Monthly Archives: May 2006

Safaricom muuyuuuuuuuuru

Earlier this week, I tried to connect my Nokia 6230 mobile phone to a friend’s notebook computer via Bluetooth and dialed 951 – which is the official dial-up number for Safaricom’s Online Network.

Well, I don’t know what they’ve done …

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impressions #2

What I really like about Nairobi are those old shops downtown were you still find lots of history and dust from the 1960s & co. Unfortunately, though, things have changed a lot on (e.g.) Moi Avenue and many of …

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impressions #1

„How do you buy stuff without cash?“ – a valid question that can also be understood from a different perspective. While the average middle-class Nairobian would probably associate this question with the convenience of pesa points a.k.a. functioning ATMs, …

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the rabbit story

Jacob this morning surprised us with the news that the rabbits (of Mbuzimoja’s sister) have “produced” children. Just like that.
You know, we were cleaning that rabbit cage yesterday and no one assumed that there’d be a Mama in the …

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res-q team

I was thinking about this one comment Mshairi mentioned the other day that apparently came up during her, Sokari’s & Wesley’s? interview on BBC: “the person who (said) that blogging was un-African”.

Now I am back in Kenya since 2 …

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