Welcoming a new member of the household seems to deserve an entry on the blog. Omundi is three weeks older than Tommy and they are rapidly becoming as thick as theives around the house. It’s coincided nicely with the start of the school holidays!
Archive for July, 2006
So, we’re back, our blogs up again (mostly) and life continues for us in sunny Kisumu. There are a few changes though. Just as we returned, school broke up for Summer. Now I have tommy with me for the whole day. I’m in the process of arranging rotating play dates so that he doesn’t get too bored and I don’t go loopy. Luckily we now have another resident in the house, Omundi, who Tommy can play with. I’ll let Hannah talk about that later though (she promises to actually put a post up later today). If you look in the side bar, there should be a little picture of Omundi there. If you click on it, it will take you to our Flickr account where you can see larger versions of the images and comment on them, if you like.
Well, I’ve finally got around to changing the blog…. but I’ve accidentally deleted about 50% of the content!. For the next few days. I’ll be trying to put it back in what ever way I can. Initially, I will put all the posts back up. Then I will add all the user accounts, then the pictures. I should get around to customising the site by next week.
Having slashed ADSL costs significantly in February 2006, Telkom Kenya has hiked their entry level ADSL pricing by 64% after only 5 months.
The service in question is the 32/128kbps pre-paid unlimited ADSL bundle. This was revolutionary when it came out and uptake was good. New users parted with the KSh3800 ($51) connection fee, the KSh8500 ($115) modem fee and then committed themselves to a KSh5604 ($76) monthly fee with a belief that, as per ADSL pricing across the rest of the known world, the price would either remain constant and the speeds increase, or the prices would come down over the course of the next 12 months or so. The really nice bit was the fact that access was via scratch cards that could be purchased as needed (no monthly bills). Though a bit fiddly for the first time user to set up each month, it provided flexibility to the consumer. It also gave users a neat way to sidestep Telkom’s notoriously erratic billing.