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Monday, October 08, 2007

Monday with no blues

The weekend saw the unveiling of the ODM presidential campaigns, this followed the earlier one by the incumbent. I have pondered over this whole campaign launch ruckus. Do the millions of chaps who fill up this grounds vote? Is this really a true gauge of the popularity or lack of, of a candidate?

Some guys say that these are just idle youth out to spend a day doing at least something hyper rather than spend it lounging at shopping centres doing what they do best, nothing.

To me this is one of the most pretentious arguments I have ever heard. The fact that this is often peddled by some grey haired chap goes to sure in what state this guy’s mind in. The results of the Banana/Orange duel are there for anyone who needs further proof of this fact. There were massive crowds at each of the Orange rallies and these crowds ultimate made their voting decision in tandem with the way they attended the rallies.

Moving swiftly along I’d like to sat albeit belatedly that the KCB advert both on telly and on radio is quite deadly. The copy chaps who thought it out should really be given some kind of bonus. There is the well thought out jingle to add onto a good idea, this ultimately gives the whole thing a marvellous finish.
Cheers guys and keep them coming.
Still on the subject of ads the producers at the national broadcaster, need to pull up their socks or just retire or even better get into another career, because bland does not even come close to describing their attempts at producing ads. Employ more creative guys please.

victor

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

Saturday

It is a bright Saturday today; there are no hints of rainfall like a normal Sato. This sides every thing seems to polite and cool.

Office is the same new stuff everyday, which I can say is the only normal thing here.

My programming project is slowly coming through save for the fact that the Open Source society in Kenya seems virtually dead. It is either that or my blog aint read by that many people so I try one more time; FELLOWS ANY ONE WITH OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OUT THERE HOOK ME UP!!!!

That said there are debates galore in the part of the woods. In Kenya’s Daily Nation, Mr Habel Nyamu wrote about the taboo subject ‘homosexuality’ his main thrust was that these chaps are more or less socially deviant guy who are just asking guys to feel sorry for them for no justifiable reason.

No sooner had the ink dried on the page than the columnist Betty Caplan fired off a reply seeking Mr. Nyamu clarification on the matter. Nation’s other writer on the matter also gave his thoughts (I forget his name).

I dont where this thing will finally conclude to.

There is also the never ending political circus I can wait for 1st January so that this ruckus is over.

incapoet

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Programming

I am trying to shift my style of writing a bit so that if I havent got something important to say, i just keep my mouth or is it the keyboard silent.

I am trying to learn how to program. This is something I want to do without having to attend a formal class if that is possible. From what I have read from the Great Ones it seems very possible.

The various programming languages are very confusing to say the least. Python, Perl,Lisp,C, C++,C#,Java and the whole lot of them but right now i am trying to concentrate on Python and Lisp. Who knows maybe I might even get to be good at the in this very near future.

The thing that I am lacking is books and where to source on Open Source software coz as i have found out Windows XP doesnt understand anything written in Python.

If there is someone out there who can tell me where i can find this stuff in this country of ours called Kenya I would very much appreciate.

Wish me luck guys

incapoet

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