Archive for July, 2006

Little house in Bondo

My new room in Bondao

So I finally got my own little anthropological pad… Read all about it here!

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10,000 Kenyans read “The Register”

So, as you might have guessed from my earlier post about ADSL price hikes here in Kenya, I was mightily aggrieved at the time. I decided to send a version of my blog post to The Register to see if they were interested in the story. As it happens, they weren’t particularly, but they did get back to me with the following email:

Hello David.

Apologies for taking so long to get back to you.

Your tip is interesting, but I don’t think it is / was newsworthy for readers outside your country.

FYI we have approx. 4m readers a month - 75 per cent in US, UK and Canada. Around 10K readers a month hail from Kenya.

Best wishes

Drew Cullen
The Register

It’s interesting to know that so many Kenyans read this technology website. I was quite impressed by this figure.

FlickrInspector

FlickrInspector is a handy little tool for finding out who’s linking to your photographs on Flickr.

Breakfast

Brakfast

Tommy and Omundi enjoying their breakfast. Omundi refuses regular uji (made with maize) now, and demands porridge oats every morning. As you can see, it goes down a treat!

Sun's Ray Bus

Wow, more Mobile computer classrooms (MIU)… Somehow I missed a project run by Sun Microsystems. There’s not a lot about it on the page i found here and all the links are dead, however it seems fairly recent (0705 in the link could mean July 05?). I’ve emailed and will post more when I know more. Having said that, I’ve just found this link at Sun about the project expanding into Paraguay. Hmm, maybe I should persue this further.

UPDATE: The project is running and the page I linked to has been fixed. Here are a couple of links to videos of the “Sun Ray Bus”:

Low Bandwidth (Real Media)

High Bandwidth (Real Media)