tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-310560312024-03-16T04:10:04.587+03:00The TimesThe chronicles of a part-time Interesting IndividualBobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-56299842372605544722011-07-18T22:43:00.003+03:002011-08-23T15:05:01.785+03:00My five linksFirst off, BIG shoutout to <a href="https://egichomo.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/my-5-links/">Evans for doing this</a>, he got me to blog after such a long time!!<br />
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In my case things are a little tricky, I write on many blogs, so I'll pick the best of the best! :-)<br />
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Here Goes!!<b> </b><br />
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<b>My Most Popular Post : <a href="https://e63club.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/twitter-mobile-sms/">Twitter Mobile SMS</a></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">In te</span></b>rms of sheer numbers, it has to be my <a href="http://www.wamathai.com/2011/07/qa-monday-martha-karua/">Q&A Monday interview of Martha Karua</a> on Wamathai.com. However, thats Wamathai's site so I won't count it here<br />
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The most hits I've ever gotten on a post were for my guide on how to use <a href="https://e63club.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/twitter-mobile-sms/">Twitter SMS on E63Club</a>, that post still gets quite a number of hits to date.<br />
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<b>Post that Didn’t Get The Attention It Deserved : <a href="http://angaliasaa.blogspot.com/2009/02/bad-day.html">Bad Day </a></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">By far, my favorite post!! I wrote it as I experienced the worst case of Monday blues EVER, its on my first blog, this one!! Its titled simply <a href="http://angaliasaa.blogspot.com/2009/02/bad-day.html">"Bad Day"</a></span></b><b> </b><br />
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<b>Post Whose Success Surprised Me : <a href="http://motogari.co.ke/2011/05/find-fuel/">Find Fuel</a> </b><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What surprised me wasn't the post itself, but what happened as a result of the post, the <a href="http://www.soudhyder.com/?p=152">#FindFuel Crowdmap</a>, it all started</span> <a href="http://motogari.co.ke/2011/05/find-fuel/" style="font-weight: normal;">with this post on Motogari.co.ke</a></b><br />
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We even got interviewed by CNBC!<br />
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<b>My Most Controversial Post : <a href="http://angaliasaa.blogspot.com/2009/09/bidii-afrika.html">Bidii Africa</a></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">This marked the first time I got into the middle of what is now commonly referred to as "Tweef". A long time ago, back when Twitter was Twitter, Robert Alai and Kahenya had a falling out on the timeline.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">My response, <a href="http://angaliasaa.blogspot.com/2009/09/bidii-afrika.html">this post </a></span></b><b> </b><br />
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<b>Post I Am Most Proud Of : <a href="http://angaliasaa.blogspot.com/2010/08/lets-map-nairobis-atms.html">Lets Map Nairobis ATMs!!</a></b><br />
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The post I am most proud of, is <a href="http://angaliasaa.blogspot.com/2010/08/lets-map-nairobis-atms.html">Lets Map Nairobis ATMs!!</a> Power to the people!! Shouted in public gatherings its cool and all, but actually seeing the power of the people in action is quite another thing, one again I thank everyone who contributed!<br />
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Now, as per Evans instructions, I have to pass this on to 5 people, so TAG! Your It!!<br />
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1. Kawiria - <a href="http://stupendoustidbits.wordpress.com/">http://stupendoustidbits.wordpress.com/</a><br />
2. Roomthinker - <a href="http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog">http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog</a><br />
3. Ray - <a href="http://www.raymondchepkwony.wordpress.com/" rel="me nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.raymondchepkwony.wordpress.com</a><br />
4. Chiira - <a href="http://chiiram-fesa.posterous.com/">http://chiiram-fesa.posterous.com</a><br />
5. Mark - <a href="http://mark.co.ke/">http://mark.co.ke</a>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-8024593900562754392011-04-19T13:38:00.002+03:002011-08-24T18:19:57.368+03:00Motogari presentation at Mobile Monday, 18th April 2011<div id="__ss_7672260" style="width: 425px;"><strong style="display: block; margin: 12px 0 4px;">Below is the powerpoint presentation that backed up my short (but sweet) presentation on my Motogari App on the Nokia Ovi Store at <a href="http://mobilemonday.co.ke/2011/mobile-monday-18th-of-april-local-apps-and-user-interfaces/">yesterdays Mobile Monday</a></strong><strong style="display: block; margin: 12px 0 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Mwirigi/motogari" title="Motogari">Motogari</a></strong><object height="355" id="__sse7672260" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=motogari-110419053143-phpapp01&stripped_title=motogari&userName=Mwirigi" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed name="__sse7672260" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=motogari-110419053143-phpapp01&stripped_title=motogari&userName=Mwirigi" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br />
<div style="padding: 5px 0 12px;">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Mwirigi">Mwirigi</a>.<br />
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Below are some pictures taken during my presentation.<br />
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</div></div>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com93tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-5595249558639301852011-04-03T09:36:00.002+03:002011-04-03T09:39:23.541+03:00Formula 1<div class="MsoNormal">Formula One! </div><div class="MsoNormal">Don’t get it either? Well, neither do I. Which is really sad considering I run<a href="http://motogari.co.ke/"> this website</a>, so I ask you to join me in a journey of discovery into the world of... (Oops! I was on Nat Geo for a while there, time to switch to SuperSport)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Over the next few months I’m going to chronicle my first attempt to watch an entire F1 season. I'll post all the technical car stuff on <a href="http://motogari.co.ke/">my other blog</a></div><div class="MsoNormal">I’m off to a bad start, I’ve already missed the first race! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Well, F1 is a sport and all serious spectator sports have a table, so here’s the table after the first race.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">2<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Lewis Hamilton<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">18<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Vitaly Petrov<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">15<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">9<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Adrian Sutil<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">2<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">10<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Paul di Resta<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">1<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">11<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Jaime Alguersuari<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">12<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Nick Heidfeld<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">13<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Jarno Trulli<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 13;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">14<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Jerome d'Ambrosio<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 14;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">15<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Timo Glock<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 15;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">16<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Sergio Perez<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 16;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">17<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Kamui Kobayashi<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 17;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">18<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Rubens Barrichello<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 18;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">19<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Nico Rosberg<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 19;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">20<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Heikki Kovalainen<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 20;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">21<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Michael Schumacher<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 21;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">22<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Pastor Maldonado<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 22;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">23<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Narain Karthikeyan<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 23; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">24<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 119.3pt;" valign="bottom" width="159"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> Vitantonio Liuzzi<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td nowrap="" style="height: 15.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black;">0<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">A gentleman who goes by the name “Sebatian Vettel” currently leads the standings after his win in Australia. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGBJvhzT1_-drePVlbv8Hhqouv8LhBfulPViEJEKKD0r93lyYhM_XvaN16G1k1JKXG72HhWiQFsQjmuHyJZ1nu08xt9VgBFXUPxfVh1fuHtDZqmB1hGanSeNIrLG83w2rKfO5_Q/s1600/S-Vettel-Australia-sebastian-vettel-20505410-594-396.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGBJvhzT1_-drePVlbv8Hhqouv8LhBfulPViEJEKKD0r93lyYhM_XvaN16G1k1JKXG72HhWiQFsQjmuHyJZ1nu08xt9VgBFXUPxfVh1fuHtDZqmB1hGanSeNIrLG83w2rKfO5_Q/s320/S-Vettel-Australia-sebastian-vettel-20505410-594-396.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Since this is the first race, that up there is the points structure, i.e Winning a race gets you 25 points, 2 place gets you 18 etc</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The constructors also gain points at every race, here’s their standings </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">1 RBR-Renault 35<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">2 McLaren-Mercedes 26<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">3 Ferrari 18<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">4 Renault 15 <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">5 STR-Ferrari 4<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">6 Force India-Mercedes 3<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">7 Lotus-Renault 0<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">8 Virgin-Cosworth 0<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">9 Sauber-Ferrari 0<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">10 Williams-Cosworth 0<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">11 Mercedes GP 0<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">12 HRT-Cosworth 0<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">Again, the same applies, these are the points the constructors get after every race.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">The next race is in Malaysia on 10<sup>th</sup> April. I’ll try not to miss that one!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="display: none;"></span></div>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-82895893509711504092011-02-19T13:36:00.000+03:002011-02-19T13:36:13.334+03:00The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business by Umair HaqueFor your reading pleasure Chapter One of The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business by Umair Haque<br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Nokia today outlined its new strategic direction, including changes in leadership and operational structure to accelerate the company’s speed of execution in a dynamic competitive environment. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Major elements of the new strategy include:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Plans for a broad strategic partnership with Microsoft to build a new global mobile ecosystem; Windows Phone would serve as Nokia’s primary smartphone platform.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">A renewed approach to capture volume and value growth to connect ”the next billion” to the Internet in developing growth markets<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Focused investments in next-generation disruptive technologies<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">A new leadership team and organizational structure with a clear focus on speed, results and accountability <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">“Nokia is at a critical juncture, where significant change is necessary and inevitable in our journey forward,” said Stephen Elop, Nokia President and CEO. “Today, we are accelerating that change through a new path, aimed at regaining our smartphone leadership, reinforcing our mobile device platform and realizing our investments in the future.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Nokia plans to form a strategic partnership with Microsoft to build a global mobile ecosystem based on highly complementary assets. The Nokia-Microsoft ecosystem targets to deliver differentiated and innovative products and have unrivalled scale, product breadth, geographical reach, and brand identity. With Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform, Nokia would help drive the future of the platform by leveraging its expertise on hardware optimization, software customization, language support and scale. Nokia and Microsoft would also combine services assets to drive innovation. Nokia Maps, for example, would be at the heart of key Microsoft assets like Bing and AdCenter, and Nokia’s application and content store would be integrated into Microsoft Marketplace. Under the proposed partnership, Microsoft would provide developer tools, making it easier for application developers to leverage Nokia’s global scale.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">With Nokia’s planned move to Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform, Symbian becomes a franchise platform, leveraging previous investments to harvest additional value. This strategy recognizes the opportunity to retain and transition the installed base of 200 million Symbian owners. Nokia expects to sell approximately 150 million more Symbian devices in the years to come.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=31056031&postID=6612332335806520016" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Under the new strategy, MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system project. MeeGo will place increased emphasis on longer-term market exploration of next-generation devices, platforms and user experiences. Nokia still plans to ship a MeeGo-related product later this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">In feature phones, Nokia unveiled a renewed strategy to leverage its innovation and strength in growth markets to connect the next billion people to their first Internet and application experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">New leadership team, o</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">perational structure<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">This new strategy is supported by significant changes in Nokia’s leadership, operational structure and approach. </span><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Effective today, Nokia has a new leadership team with the commitment, competencies and innovative thinking needed in today’s dynamic environment. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">The Nokia Leadership Team, previously the Group Executive Board, will consist of the following members: Stephen Elop, Esko Aho, Juha Akras, Jerri DeVard, Colin Giles, Rich Green, Jo Harlow, Timo Ihamuotila, Mary McDowell, Kai Oistamo, Tero Ojanpera, Louise Pentland and Niklas Savander.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Alberto Torres has stepped down from the management team, effective February 10 to pursue other interests outside the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">The renewed governance will expedite decision-making and improve time-to-market of products and innovations, placing a heavy focus on results, speed and accountability. The new strategy and operational structure are expected to have significant impact to Nokia operations and personnel.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">New company structure<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">As of April 1, Nokia will have a new company structure, which features two distinct business units: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Smart Devices</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mobile Phones</b>. They<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>will focus on Nokia’s key business areas: high-end smartphones and mass-market mobile phones. Each unit will have profit-and-loss responsibility and end-to-end accountability for the full consumer experience, including product development, product management and product marketing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Smart Devices</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;"> will be responsible for building Nokia’s leadership in smartphones and will be led by Jo Harlow. The following sub-units now in Mobile Solutions will move under Smart Devices:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Symbian Smartphones<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">MeeGo Computers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Strategic Business Operations <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">To support the planned new partnership with Microsoft, Smart Devices will be responsible for creating a winning Windows Phone portfolio.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Mobile Phones</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;"> will drive Nokia’s ”web for the next billion” strategy. Mobile Phones will leverage its innovation and strength in growth markets to connect the next billion people and bring them affordable access to the Internet and applications. The Mobile Phones unit will be led by Mary McDowell.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Markets</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;"> will be responsible for selling products, executing compelling marketing and communications, creating a competitive local ecosystem, sourcing, customer care, manufacturing, IT and logistics across all Nokia products. It will be headed by Niklas Savander. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Services and Developer Experience</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;"> will be responsible for Nokia’s global services portfolio, developer offering, developer relations and integration of partner service offerings. Tero Ojanpera will lead the Services and Developer Experience unit in an acting capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">NAVTEQ, </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">an integral part of Nokia’s<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> location and advertising business</b>, will be headed by Larry Kaplan, and continue as a separate reporting entity. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">The</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CTO Office will be </b>responsible for Nokia’s technology strategy and forward-looking technology activities, including Nokia Research Center. It will be headed by Rich Green. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Design</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">, responsible for Nokia product and user experience design, will be led by Marko Ahtisaari. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">The CFO Office, </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">responsible for all financial activity, will be headed by Timo Ihamuotila. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Corporate Development</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">, responsible for driving implementation of Nokia’s ecosystem strategy and strategic partnerships, will be headed by Kai Oistamo. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Corporate Relations & Responsibility</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">, responsible for Nokia's government and public affairs, sustainable development and social responsibility, will be led by Esko Aho. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Human Resources</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;"> will be led by Juha Akras. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Legal and Intellectual Property</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;"> will be led by Louise Pentland. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;">Nokia Siemens Networks</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Nokia Sans Wide', sans-serif;"> continues in the Nokia Group as a separate reporting entity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-41252190103713072372011-01-19T08:07:00.001+03:002011-04-23T13:34:33.904+03:00133 Years<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i> 133 years. </i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">That’s how long, combined, me and a few of my friends have been driving.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">However, in the last 6 months each and every one of us has had a serious traffic incident. By serious I mean any incident that resulted in the car being written off or having to be in the garage for more than a month.</div><div class="MsoNormal">By my count, 4 of us have written off our cars, and there have been a total of 15 separate incidents in the 6 month period between June and December 2010. No fatalities but one serious injury. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">What could be behind this?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Well, in my case and one of other the three other write offs, Alcohol was involved. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I had a few beers the night I wrote off my car, no happy-hour , shot downing binge drinking, just a couple of cold ones during the live performance I was watching that night, 2 beers in a period of about 4½ hours. I remember exactly how many I had because they were Shs. 275/= each.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One beer is enough to impair your reflexes just a tiny little bit, when shit hits the fan, every little bit counts. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Had I come round that bend and found that stationary vehicle while I was completely sober then maybe I would have turned the steering wheel a few inches less, or hit the brakes with a little more force, or turned to the right instead of the left, or used the handbrake, or... </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The possibilities are endless. All I can do is thank the Lord that my passenger and I escaped unhurt.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I will not speak for the other chap who had his impromptu evening nap rudely interrupted by the Nyayo Stadium Roundabout and wrote off his car.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">People, don’t drink and drive, it’s never worth it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With the exception of a tyre burst, the rest of the accidents were caused by my friend’s reactions to the actions of another motorist. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One guy was on Ngong Road, the car ahead indicated right, slowed down and turned to the right, my pal accelerated to pass on the left, the dude then changes his mind and turns back onto the road straight into my pal.</div><div class="MsoNormal">One three car pile-up with my pal sandwiched in the middle on Waiyaki Way caused by a guy who suddenly stopped to buy a newspaper.</div><div class="MsoNormal">One write-off caused by rolling twice after swerving off the road to avoid a couple of guys racing down the Bomas drift. </div><div class="MsoNormal">One guy who was sandwiched between the Lorry he was overtaking and the guy who was trying to overtake him as he overtook the Lorry. The overlapping idiot suddenly realised there was no more road and swerved back, into my pal, who then hit the lorry.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One head on collision on the Nairobi-Naivasha highway, details of which are hazy because the guy can’t (or won’t) remember. Eyewitness accounts, however, state that he was overtaking someone who decided to accelerate, leaving him no option but to face the business end of an 18-Wheeler. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With the exception of me and my pal Mr. Nyayo Roundabout, the accidents were caused purely by third parties who quite frankly, based on their actions, should not have been on the road.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The problem is that our system doesn’t teach people how to drive, it teaches them to pass the driving test, a test which was designed for an older generation of vehicles on a different set of roads.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With the cost of credit going down and the public transport sector in a mess, more and more people are buying cars, but with the driving test as it is, we are actually putting these new drivers and the people around them in danger by allowing them to drive without proper knowledge of how to operate a motor vehicle.</div><div class="MsoNormal">All the experience in the world will not stop you from having an accident with some chap on the road who has no idea what he’s doing.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Insurance premiums are at an all time high and with superhighways popping up all over, I think it’s time we took a serious look at how we train people who drive.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I must go through a certain number of hours of training each year to do what I do for a living, “Continuous Professional Development” they call it, it should be the same for drivers of all PSVs.</div><div class="MsoNormal">In fact, everyone who drives should get trained and tested on a regular basis, perhaps every 3 years, drunk-driving campaigns should be stepped up, done all year round not just around the holidays, even the licence itself, that piece of cardboard in our paperless world should be changed.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Too many people die or get maimed for life on our roads every day, they don’t need to. Something needs to change.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-25421118743624763682010-12-28T12:32:00.005+03:002010-12-29T14:20:22.894+03:00Weaves.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3e4SFsfUJSp-IXtl7FIyPv6dUIE8_9_X3y4U544lj4roeGLqDZW0UE8qWmtIGZ2AgKRkYsyHSsK7PcRjt9Q7hiE999W5ZzuJHbNdgX-5ojsJSeP-ARI805_ctAnm5M67Xz3OlCw/s1600/tyra-banks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3e4SFsfUJSp-IXtl7FIyPv6dUIE8_9_X3y4U544lj4roeGLqDZW0UE8qWmtIGZ2AgKRkYsyHSsK7PcRjt9Q7hiE999W5ZzuJHbNdgX-5ojsJSeP-ARI805_ctAnm5M67Xz3OlCw/s320/tyra-banks.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><br />
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We just love to hate them don’t we? I am in actual fact a founding member of the MAWE* coalition. A think-tank dedicated to rid the world of the weave.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(*Men Against Weaves Everywhere)</span><br />
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A “weave”, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary, is defined as :-<br />
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<i>Weave : verb \ˈwēv\</i><br />
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<ol><li><i>to form (cloth) by interlacing strands (as of yarn);specifically : to make (cloth) on a loom by interlacing warp and filling threads</i></li>
<li><i> to interlace (as threads) into cloth : to make (as a basket) by intertwining</i></li>
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Hmm, it isn’t even in the dictionary (10 points to MAWE)<br />
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I had to look elsewhere for a more definitive definition, “weave” is defined by the world renowned <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=weave">UrbanDictionary.com</a> as :-<br />
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<i>A form of hair extension often used by black women and celebrities.</i><br />
<i>It's woven, or glued, into the hair from the track. If done right, it comes out cute. It may even look real, if it’s done real good.</i><br />
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Now, women do all sorts of things to look good. A weave is just one of them so why all the hate?<br />
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I come from accounting background, so for me, as a professional, as long as you have the receipt, it’s your hair. <br />
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I don’t even have a problem with the concept that its “fake”, I’m routinely bewitched by girls wearing contacts all the time, even when I know that there’s no way in hell an African chick has gray eyes. <br />
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Weaves have even been proven to <a href="http://www.fox4kc.com/wdaf-hair-weave-bullet-story,0,1242972.story">save lives!</a><br />
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In fact, millions of women and girls in Kenya routinely add thin strands of black, brown, occasionally red and sometimes luminous green plastic to their hair all the time (they call them braids), but you never hear anyone hate on a chicks braids, that is of course, when they are freshly done, occasionally, some women will keep braids in longer that they should, THEN we have a problem.<br />
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Therein lies the root of the problem I have with weaves,<br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I M P L E M E N T A T I O N</span></b></div><br />
Most weaves are just done badly, from Day 1 it just looks off. <br />
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There’s a noticeable bump, or the thing is a different colour from the rest of the chicks hair, or the hair moves independently from the head it’s on, I really could go on for ages.<br />
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I choose to look at any enhancement a chick does to look hot as being similar to special effects in a movie.<br />
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The movie industry depends on a phenomenon they call <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief">“willing suspension of disbelief”</a> to introduce special effects into movies, your mind on some level has to accept the special effects as being real for you to enjoy the movie.<br />
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Weaves, when they are done as badly as they are done in Kenya are like bad special effects, they ruin the movie.<br />
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So ladies, if you’re not willing or able to spend the thousands of shillings needed to get a weave like Tyra’s…<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">JUST DON’T DO IT</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-59186302463775489922010-12-20T13:42:00.003+03:002010-12-20T14:21:03.997+03:00Sauti Sol<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHiMZRKk21rq92zFLbB9LtdwwSbiXHGq3BQ3nbal7wSBpCebbxA1H0SYb5ZIn5c6JqBLn23gMWTqbGdWcMU6GhO5AnV55Q7J9QRj-iU0GNRVosYr6aiA-eou1zwdSbbDZLEUbTSw/s1600/blankets-wine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHiMZRKk21rq92zFLbB9LtdwwSbiXHGq3BQ3nbal7wSBpCebbxA1H0SYb5ZIn5c6JqBLn23gMWTqbGdWcMU6GhO5AnV55Q7J9QRj-iU0GNRVosYr6aiA-eou1zwdSbbDZLEUbTSw/s400/blankets-wine.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Sauti Sol Rocks.<br />
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I was at Blankets & Wine St. Marys Alumni Edition, The generator failed, their performance ended prematurely. So they come down off the stage. <br />
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For about 30-45 minutes there are frantic attempts to get it back online, but to no avail, Eric Wainana who was on next, disappears into the crowd, Muthoni, stressed out, was still right there at the generator trying to get it fixed (Pole sana madam, these things happen), The Oyier Brothers, nowhere to be seen, but Sauti Sol...<br />
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They come down right to the tents where guys are sitting and do a micro-show, no band, no fancy stage and big sound, just Chimano, Bien and Delvin singing their hearts out with Polycarp on the Guitar, just like when they were a group of guys in the garden at the Alliance Francaise trying to impress the girls. <br />
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Chris Bittok sees this, runs to his car, gets his sax and joins in. <br />
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That 20 minute “show”, the 6 odd songs they did, right there in the middle of that small crowd, that was worth the Shs. 1,000/= I paid for the ticket.<br />
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Their new album, Sol Filosophia is out right now, I suggest you go out and buy it for one reason...<br />
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Sauti Sol gets it, the fans are everything.Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-83707971934168594632010-11-19T12:38:00.000+03:002010-11-19T12:38:07.259+03:00What gift do you really really want this festive season?<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://static.polldaddy.com/p/4112480.js"></script><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Enablis Entrepreneurial Network East Africa today announced the first loan disbursement of KES 20 Million to a Kenyan entrepreneur through its Loan Guarantee Program with Chase Bank.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Speaking of the occasion, Enablis Africa CEO, Sally Moodley said, “This is another critical milestone for the Enablis network of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs in Africa. Our Enablis entrepreneurs in Kenya are now able to access loans from Chase Bank with Enablis providing the necessary guarantee, in partnership with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), that allows the Bank to consider the entrepreneurs’ applications favorably.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Enablis, a public-private partnership, operates at the grass-roots level and is dedicated to delivering to its member entrepreneurs key business enablers like capacity building support, business management training, mentorship, networking opportunities, and access to finance. Enablis loan funding partners in East Africa include Chase Bank in Kenya and National Microfinance Bank PLC (NMB) in Tanzania.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Enablis member Athanas Matheka, the entrepreneur recipient of this KES 20 Million loan, is the owner of Greenforest Foods Ltd (GFL). GFL deals in refining, bottling and marketing of high quality pure natural honey. Greenforest Honey is a leading brand sold through all the major supermarket chains.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The funding will be used for expansion of the business into processing and marketing of edible nuts, and growth of the honey market regionally. While receiving the funds, Mr. Matheka said,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“With this facility, I will expand my business and create direct employment through additional staff, and indirect employment for the farmers and other suppliers from whom I will source materials. Clearly, access to this level of funding made possible by the Enablis guarantee and the Chase Bank facility will transform my business and contribute to poverty alleviation. I am extremely thankful to Enablis and the Government of Canada who made all this</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">possible and to Chase Bank for a wonderful new relationship.” </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Moses Mwaura, Regional Director, Enablis East Africa, commented, “This Loan Guarantee Program gives us the ability to fulfill our mandate of providing support to entrepreneurs in all spheres of their businesses. It also allows us to make a substantial difference to the sustainability of Kenyan entrepreneurs in terms of skills development, networking opportunities and finally access to finance.”</div>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-17628978403454011042010-10-01T09:55:00.007+03:002010-11-12T14:21:09.501+03:00Nokia N8 on its way to Kenya<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijuTqwSs0OBC5k5YoEOZQgdXObu9iqqlc4Ot5Vqa-0kKuPe6Vvpmz884pATN2N1SqeYh6NWoA1s50nMEXtKaAtwurMpI9RgYDt2alHDYd6CCmdl193lls0acn_T1ep6RTKWH-R2Q/s1600/Nokia+N8+Image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijuTqwSs0OBC5k5YoEOZQgdXObu9iqqlc4Ot5Vqa-0kKuPe6Vvpmz884pATN2N1SqeYh6NWoA1s50nMEXtKaAtwurMpI9RgYDt2alHDYd6CCmdl193lls0acn_T1ep6RTKWH-R2Q/s320/Nokia+N8+Image.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div>According to a press release from Nokia the brand new Nokia N8 is set to hit East Africa within weeks.<br />
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*UPDATE*<br />
The N8 is being launched on the 12th of November 2010<br />
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Ken Oyolla, the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">General Manager for Nokia East and Southern Africa</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">had this to say</span></span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">“With the N8, and the new Symbian software, we are bringing a familiar, faster and more intuitive user experience to the world’s most popular smartphone platform. "</span></span><br />
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The new software he's refering to is Symbian S^3, Nokias replacement for the ageing S60 platform.<br />
Symbian S^3 teems with over 250 new features including multiple personalised homescreens, multipoint touch HDMI and support for something Nokia calls "Intelligent Networking". You can find a full set of new features <a href="http://www.symbian.org/symbian-platform/symbian3">here</a>.<br />
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In addition to the brand new OS the N8 will also be the first Nokia to ship with support for the Qt Developer framework. Qt allows open source and commercial software developers to code less, create more and deploy everywhere. With Qt, developers can build innovative applications and touch-enabled user interfaces once and then deploy across all major mobile, desktop, consumer electronic and embedded platforms without rewriting the code.<br />
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In English, what this means is that it will be easier for developers to create apps for the N8 and all future S^3 powered devices.<br />
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Enough about the software now, let me move on to the hardware.<br />
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The N8 packs a 3.5 inch AMOLED screen , 16 GB onboard storage (which you will definitely need seeing as it has a 12 megapixel camera) , 256MB RAM and 512 MB ROM. The radio chips run HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2.0 Mbps and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with UPnP technology.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfMfIHLNzQ_PQs9P3k68kgAMY6d1_GlTcTAi4f2b2HC3DKWY50GAMTNTuTdMa8cB9QS9mlfW79djohqi5gkdzMRNc-nCffLxY5I4fA76dKyrBbIRBpHXve8kEmYQkQmHGEwlozQ/s1600/Nokia+N8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfMfIHLNzQ_PQs9P3k68kgAMY6d1_GlTcTAi4f2b2HC3DKWY50GAMTNTuTdMa8cB9QS9mlfW79djohqi5gkdzMRNc-nCffLxY5I4fA76dKyrBbIRBpHXve8kEmYQkQmHGEwlozQ/s400/Nokia+N8.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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All this is powered by a 680 MHz ARM 11 processor, not as powerful as the Nexus Ones 1GHz monster but with a 3D graphics hardware accelerator you're not likely to notice a marked difference in performance between the two. The rest of the specs you can get <a href="http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n8-3252.php">here</a><br />
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End of the day this looks like an amazing phone, it should be a viable alternative to the android powered HTCs and the iPhone,<br />
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Hope it also has a flashlight :-)<br />
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*UPDATE*<br />
The phone will retail at between Shs. 41,999 at Safaricom Retail centres with a free 300MB bundle thrown inBobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-38757303622274245232010-09-25T12:40:00.003+03:002011-08-23T11:57:44.272+03:00The Wallypower Superyacht<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In case you've read my profile and you're wondering exactly what a 118ft WallyPower SuperYacht is, allow me to explain,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The 118 WallyPower is a high performance yacht integrating technology with design, resulting with unique and marked characteristics like the vertical bow, the air inlets, and the deck superstructure.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The sleek lines of the 118 WallyPower are the result of an extensive R&D programme that included the tank testing at the SSPA facility in Goteborg, Sweden, and the wind tunnel testing in the Ferrari facility in Maranello, Italy</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The pure lines of the 118 WallyPower are enhanced by the absence of visible cleats, mooring winches, radar antenna, TV dome, anchor system: everything is perfectly and neatly concealed and hidden without sacrificing functionality.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">For instance a panel in the forward deck opens hydraulically and vertically to reveal the spacious lazzarette housing the tender (small boat used to go to shore without docking the ship) and water toys like JetSkis, which are launched with a crane.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Some other technical solutions contribute to the yachts appeal, like the shape of the bow which allows for a 50 per cent reduction of the vertical acceleration i.e. the "jumping" motion caused by sudden acceleration, and the superstructure design that features flat surfaces in order to appear transparent.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The bottom of the hull is built in solid fibreglass. Topsides from the waterline are hybrid fibreglass/carbon composite with balsa core. On deck this becomes a Nomex/full carbon composite. The deck superstructure is made of laminated glass with carbon frames. The interior bulkheads and cabin soles carry no structural loads: they are constructed entirely of thin wood and laminate veneer skins with cores.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The chameleon-like paint finish is metallic dark green and changes reflections and colour depending on the light and landscape.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The deck is flush and features from bow to stern: the tender garage, the social cockpit, the glass superstructure, and the aft cockpit. Large open areas are designed to comfortably and safely move around the deck when at anchor.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The deck, cockpit, navigation, dining and saloon areas have been conceived as one continuous element. Inside the superstructure, the atmosphere if that of a New York style loft. The open space incorporates three areas, from stern to bow: the saloon, the dining/seating area, and the navigation cockpit.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The saloon is designed with the same relaxed life of the cockpit; the drop-down bulwarks increase the view from inside. The teak planes are covered with cushions to serve as sofas, while the spaces between the teak planes contain various functions such as additional seating, tables, storage and technology. The teak soles are a continuation of the deck teak enhancing the inside-outside living concept of the yacht.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The carbon fiber dining table seats eight people. The port and starboard teak cabinets serve for storage of china, silverware and glassware.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The dining table is made of two identical halves, and splits longitudinally to be moved over the teak cabinets of both sides, and transform the area into a large clear space. Alternatively, the dining chairs can be locked to the soles creating underway seating.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The owner’s stateroom is forward, featuring a king size bed. Plenty of storage is provided by the side cabinets. A 20” plasma screen is mounted in the aft bulkhead. The cabin has plenty of natural light coming for the top skylight.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The spacious galley encloses the crew mess with 15” plasma screen. The galley is equipped with professional oven and stove, as well as plenty of fridges.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The two identical guest cabins feature queen size beds and en-suites with separate head and shower. The 15” plasma screen is in the aft bulkhead.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The propulsion system consists of three gas turbines generating 16,800 HP, driving water jets - two steerable outboard and a non-steering on centreline. For manoeuvring and long deliveries, the steerable water jets are powered by two diesel engines of 370 HP each. The exhaust system is made of titanium that saves weight while being very resistent to the high temperatures generated by the gas turbines.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The yacht displaces only 95 tons thanks to the sophisticated building technology that used a hybrid structure to save weight while reacting in a very sound manner, without transmitting shockwaves therefore making comfortable the rigidity of the composite hull.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">At speed, the 118 WallyPower is comfortable and stable as a result of the V hull shape combined with the construction technology and the perfect isolation of the machinery noise and vibration.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It is capable of reaching speeds as fast as 60 knots (70 mph, 110 km/h)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Oh and by the way,The cost of the 118 Wallypower is US$24.83 million for the triple gas turbines or $16.55 million for the twin diesels only.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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</div><a href="http://www.emergencywebcomic.com/">Emergency</a> is a miniseries written and illustrated by <a href="http://twitter.com/chiefnyamweya">Chief Nyamweya</a>. It is based on pre-independence Kenya as seen through the eyes Chege Karobia and Kim (Dedan Kimathi).<br />
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Chege is an illiterate but street-wise Nairobian. He had been a childhood friend to Kim and his brothers, all of whom are very fond of him. <br />
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He is amiable and has a fondness for alcohol. Having never read a book in his life he is fascinated with Kim's ease with English.<br />
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Months before Kim's arrival in 1945 which is announced by a letter, Kim's brother Wambararia requests Chege to receive Kim in Nairobi.<br />
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Dedan "Kim" Kimathi returns to Nairobi in 1945 after serving 4 years with the King's African Rifles in Burma fighting the Japanese on behalf of the British Empire.<br />
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However, he is morose from battle and lack of money due to a premature discharge. His discharge also makes it difficult to find a job commensurate to his education (he is fluent in English and has a Secondary education).<br />
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His discharge papers get him as far as Nairobi, so he temporarily puts up with a childhood friend, Chege, as he saves up to return to his family in the native reserve.<br />
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Emergency explores the birth of our country from a fresh perspective and presents it in an amazing new way.<br />
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Its the culmination of one and a half years of research into Kenyan history mixed with a little comic book artistry and a whole lot of amazing.<br />
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Check out the trailer below :- <br />
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<small>View <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104165899145056549049.00048ea2aea1b591cf9f0&ll=-1.285447,36.82537&spn=0.114587,0.13227&source=embed" style="color: blue; text-align: left;">ATM Locator</a> in a larger map</small><br />
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So, <a href="http://angaliasaa.blogspot.com/2010/08/lets-map-nairobis-atms.html">we came together and built up a map</a>, now you need to find an ATM close to you, what do you do?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Well, step 1 is installing </span><a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/maps/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google Maps for mobile</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">, you can do this by visiting http://m.google.com/maps on your phones broswer. If you already have Google Maps, update it to the latest version.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Google maps for mobile is compatible with most phones, you can check if yours is compatible <a href="http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=39891">here</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Once you have it installed, open the app, you should see a map</span><br />
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</span>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-32775088864054901672010-08-25T15:02:00.006+03:002010-08-26T08:18:29.433+03:00Lets Map Nairobis ATMs!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Here's how to do it, it takes about five minutes.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">On your PC open up your browser and go here ~ <a href="http://j.mp/MapNbiATMs">http://j.mp/MapNbiATMs</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><br />
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Once you're in, go over to the pane on the left and click edit<br />
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A new menu should appear on the top left hand corner of the map itself,<br />
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Click on the blue placemark and move it to the location you thought of in step one above, the building with the ATM.<br />
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Once you set it down, you should see this:-<br />
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Fill in the details like my friend Geoffrey did here below, save it and your done.<br />
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Which details?<br />
Well, is it a deposit taking ATM? Can you withdraw money via M-Pesa? Is it VISA/Mastercard branded? Is it part of the Kenswitch network? Anything that someone may find useful.<br />
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To view the map on your cellphone, you need to install <a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/maps/">Google Maps for mobile</a>. It works of just about any phone.<br />
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Go to http://m.google.com/maps on your phone and follow the instructions<br />
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Go to layers> browse layers > My Maps > ATM locator and there!! Your ATMs will be on the Map, available to all, for free!!<br />
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And all it took was five minutes of your time!<br />
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Big heads up to <a href="http://twitter.com/lamzana">Lamzana</a> , without whom this would never have happened, Thank you!!<br />
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</div></div>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-53825175966074583982010-08-25T10:44:00.003+03:002010-08-26T12:56:28.284+03:00Safaricom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMSXA74yklXNxSnGpORh-461HVG9gCe-RkuFE1IMzEhO3_aDIyDjN3U9CEpcDSeFzzU_98kGE6QU4aFCH2Zq5vmmB9Qz2FEHJAxgjsqaVPerE7eiZ4Z0pF84AsjqVf_NnFAdIsdw/s1600/Safaricon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMSXA74yklXNxSnGpORh-461HVG9gCe-RkuFE1IMzEhO3_aDIyDjN3U9CEpcDSeFzzU_98kGE6QU4aFCH2Zq5vmmB9Qz2FEHJAxgjsqaVPerE7eiZ4Z0pF84AsjqVf_NnFAdIsdw/s320/Safaricon.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This whole Safaricom thing got me thinking after <a href="http://twitter.com/mainat/statuses/21936533567">@MainaTs tweet.</a> What is the effect of </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Safaricom reducing its tarriffs on its bottom line?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Well. Heres my completely unprofessional, paper napkin analysis based on Safaricoms </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">results announcement, a huge (30MB) PDF file which you can find here: </span><a href="http://safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=929">http://safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=929</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Hopefully someone will build on this.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">OK, first things first, lets assume:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">1. No change in subscribers (or their peculiar habits) i.e subscriber numbers remain constant</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2. No change in consumption and consumption patterns, so the number of minutes remains </span>constant as does the ratio on on to off net calls<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">OK, The statistics now, page (or slide) 21, Total Gross revenue is 83 Billion, Page 22 breaks it </span>down so we have 63 Bilion of this attributable to voice. Thats roughly 75%<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Back to page 21. Net profit is 15 Billion. 75% of this is 11 Billion.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">OK, page 10, Safaricom has roughly 16 Million subscribers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">11 Billion divided by 16 million subscribers... Thats Ksh 688 per subscriber (On Page 22 </span>Safaricom reports a voice ARPU of Ksh.356 so I may be wrong)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Lets further assume that the tarrif was Ksh. 8 per minute, Ksh.688 divided by Ksh. 8 per </span>minute gives you an average of 86 minutes per user per year (a very rough approximation complicated by the Supa Ongea "dynamic tarriff" nonsense)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The <a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/Safaricoms%20new%20tariffs%20calm%20investor%20nerves%20at%20the%20bourse/-/539550/996178/-/4ywgx5z/-/index.html">Business Daily today</a> also raised another interesting point, Safaricom<a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/Mobicom%20launches%20first%20campaign%20with%20Telkom/-/539550/977110/-/s9ox2fz/-/index.html"> lost a big dealer</a> to </span>Orange recently, if demand for Safaricom airtime wanes, more dealers may follow suit. This may be a serious problem for Big Green.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Zap has better merchant integration than M-Pesa (the KPLC and Nairobi Water time delays </span>being a case in point) more Zap dealers will threaten Safaricoms dominance in this sector. M-Pesa is basically a customer retention tool (its about 9% of Safaricoms total revenue [Page 21]) so this is bad.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In short, things are thick for big green, the timing is also tricky, Bob Collymore clearly needs to hit the ground running. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In the meantime, apparently there was a Zain truck parked outside Safaricom HQ with packed with speakers blaring loud music, Specifically the Song "Bendover", check it out!</span><br />
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This is a Song I came across using <a href="http://www.shazam.com/">Shazam</a>. It was in an Episode of the 2006 series <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_(TV_series)">"Smith"</a>.<br />
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Its called Black Swan, its from the Eraser, the debut solo album of Thom Yorke the lead vocalist of the Band Radiohead.<br />
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Enjoy!Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-18517598627015791602010-07-27T11:23:00.005+03:002010-07-28T08:40:59.369+03:00Wamathai Exclusive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://wamathai.com/wamathai-exclusive/"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbiTby3roRhunK290xg3Qjvbh4CNXUcn522Y6Cy0dv3jf-fTX_jeBJC5dYxTjmVdF9qifioeQNkN2SDCcHvzLmksmLpYbcsfQ3QqgtuIpz5B6PwbStD16tjpt9bsIBRl5mV0KAw/s640/Wamathai.jpg" width="451" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Building on the success of its <a href="http://nairobiliving.com/component/content/article/19-blog/604-wamathaicom-turns-one-year-old.html">inaugural event</a>, Wamathai.com will host its second spoken word extravaganza on Thursday, the 5th of August 2010 at Secrets VIP Lounge, View Park Towers Nairobi. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Hosted by the incredible <a href="http://twitter.com/delamuziki">Dela</a>, the event will feature performances by Wanjeri Gakuru, Jemedari, Wanjiku Mwaurah, Kevin Gachuma, Mike Kwambo, Njeri Wangari, Anyiko Owoko, Immah & others.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">To ensure the right atmosphere for proper appreciation of the performance, There will be a limited series of only one hundred tickets available. To reserve yours, call or text 0722-352 239 or send an e-mail to wamathai@wamathai.com (Tickets are Kshs. 300)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In addition to poetry there will be music by Skiza & Lele as well as a screening of up and coming director <a href="http://twitter.com/mkaigwa">Mark Kaigwa</a>’s Film <a href="http://dawathefilm.co.ke/">Dawa.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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Dear Bobby,<br />
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Wassup, its tough being the youngest guy in class isn't it? Dont worry. You never will grow much facial hair so quit worrying about it. Being younger than everyone else will pay off later, you'll have an impressive amount of experience for someone your age one day.<br />
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Avoid beautiful girls named Njeri, they have a tendancy to break hearts.<br />
It will be difficult but you need to MAKE SURE you go for "beats of the season" you will NEVER regret it.<br />
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Some of the guys you are friends with are arseholes and some of them will be your friends till your late twenties, I wont name names, just choose who you spend your time with wisely.<br />
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You like to play around with gadgets, torches, radios, Mums jewelry box (you will get the beating of your life, but the box will be fine for years to come) tear them down and build the up again. Dont ever stop, that trait, the burning desire to know how things work will be an asset one day.<br />
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Play around with the comps in the computer lab, one day they'll do even cooler things than multiplayer "Doom".<br />
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Work hard in school but always remember to have fun.<br />
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Blackadder ITC'; font-size: 18pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Bonitas, Scientia, Disciplina</span></span></i><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Blackadder ITC'; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>You and sports that don't involve a ball don't mix, just don't. Really, do not.<br />
Learn how to play chess, the earlier, the better.<br />
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Be good to your Aunts and Uncles, they will help you alot in the years to come. Be nice to mum, she has your back like you can't believe.<br />
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Raphael, your neighbour, will not make it to his 21st Birthday, I know its sad but be there for the dude, make sure you do your part to ensure he lives a good life.<br />
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Ahenda will grow up to be a breathtakingly beautiful woman. Pay a little more attention to her now.<br />
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All in all, enjoy being a kid, life gets tougher when you grow up but its still lots of fun.<br />
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<ul><li><a href="http://kipkemoi.wordpress.com/">Ngeny</a></li>
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<li>The lovely <a href="http://kenyanmom.wordpress.com/">Carolkmail</a></li>
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*P.S. - Tell dad to buy you shares in some company called "City Trust" for your fourteenth birthdayBobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com61tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-18613227501778686732010-07-07T11:04:00.004+03:002010-08-12T00:53:57.042+03:00From my Inbox - The Abundance versus the Scarcity Mentality in Professional Development and Growth<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><div><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A speech delivered by Eric Kimani to the Kenya Institute of </span></span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Bankers, </span></span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mombasa Chapter on 1st December 2006.</span></span></i></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When the Kenya Institute of Bankers, Coast chapter invited me to come </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and speak to you they gave me ample notice. One would therefore </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> imagine that it is very easy to have chosen what to speak about- </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">is not!, I thought for weeks what it is that I can speak to you </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">that</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> would add value both ways away from the usual advise you might </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">find</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> in the newspaper. But I continually drew a blank. Then I </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">thought </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> myself why not be controversial and speak about something as </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">basic </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">as</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> how our mentality affects our professional careers. I decided to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">talk </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">about how our attitudes and mentality affect our career growth </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">or </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">stagnation- </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Let us start with some long winded definitions</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> What is an abundance mentality- this is a deep belief that there is </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">enough for all- enough work, enough jobs enough resources. It is living </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">with a favor-minded attitude. One can define it also as optimism. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Seeing the glass half full rather than half empty.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thinking big and expecting big. I will draw very many examples which I </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">seek your indulgence if they sound like self-praise- they are only </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">meant </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to help clarify the message. I recently led a group of some passionate </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kenyans in a charity fundraising. Some of them thought I was out of my </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">mind to suggest that we can ask Kenyans to donate Ksh.7m. This </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">initiative realized close to 12m! The barriers are in our minds and we </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">will not go beyond the barriers in our minds.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By contrast the scarcity mentality is a belief that your success will s</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">imply mean someone else's failure; that there are scarce resources and if </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">you </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">get them you must deny </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">someone else; that there is scarcity of jobs; that the cake is not </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">enough and I must grab my share. The scarcity mentality is one of our </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">biggest problems in this country today with politicians </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">believing </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">that they have gone to parliament to ensure get the largest share of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">national cake for "their people/electorate" . </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This was also epitomized </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">lately by a senior executive friend of mine whom I approached in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">September to donate money to the national charity cause I referred to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">above that incidentally helps more people from his village than </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">anywhere </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">else in Kenya. He responded that he could not help because they have a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">similar initiative to help his village. </span></span><br />
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</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">His scarcity mentality- </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That there is not enough for his village and the national initiative</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">blinded him in seeing that he could achieve what he is doing for the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">village in a more far-reaching manner.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So much for the definitions.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I hope to show you by the end of my talk that the difference between</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">successful people and the less successful is largely their mentality </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">abundance or of scarcity.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality have an internal security based </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">on </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a principled centered living</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Their value system is self-anchored. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">are not too worried of saying/doing the wrong thing because they </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ordinarily talk from a point of truth. This frees their mind to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">bigger/better thoughts because they have nothing to cover. What They </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">said yesterday is what they will repeat today without contradiction</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This internal security enhances their humility. It allows them to e</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">njoy </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">professional freedom. They can choose what they want to do. By </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">contrast </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">people with a scarcity mentality seek their validation from groups.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">will rarely want to take action on their own. The group must validate </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">what they do. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To draw an example from my own career, I have left employment 3 times </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the last decade and at no time have I ever felt that there would be </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">scarcity of opportunities. I believe strongly that there is something </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">better out there awaiting you to discover. I have always relied on my </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">sense of internal security to anchor myself. Do not owe your </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">employment </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to your boss's favor or anyone for that matter. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Believe you are the best there is and you will work towards it and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">become it!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality seek solitude and enjoy nature.</span></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By taking time out in solitude and nature, you allow yourself to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">access</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">your deepest thoughts and hence your human spirit with which we are </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">all</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">equally endowed. Most successful people I know will take time out to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">reflect. I try to take a solitary one or two night retreat away from </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">family and work once every year and try and access my human spirit. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">have to experience it to believe it. It re-energizes you.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality keep their mind and body tuned </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">through wide reading and exercise</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. It is a pity that most of us stop </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">reading on graduating. Most successful people read voraciously- they </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">are </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">in sync with what is going on around them. They are current. They do</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">not </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">spend an hour reading newspapers or watching TV but will s</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">pend hours reading the latest management thoughts for example. I try </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">read as many books in year as I can. I have tried to keep fit for over </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">10 years and my wife who is my jogging and walking partner can attest</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to that- we call exercise our lifeline! Without the mental and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">physical </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">fitness we would not have survived the vagaries of disease and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">challenges of everyday life!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality serve others. </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Like one writer put </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">it</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and I quote "Service is the only rent to pay for the privilege of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">living </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">in this world" Are you paying or are you robbing the landlord? </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Service enhances internal security and fuels the abundance mentality- </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">at </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the beginning of this year I pledged to donate ksh. 2m to a</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">cause....I </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">chair the Disciplinary committee of the Accountants; I chair Help Age </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kenya, I chair The Palmhouse Foundation among many others. Nothing </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">gives </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">me greater joy! People ask me where I get the time- some of my friends </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">have asserted that I have a 25-hour day!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I tell people you have time for what you value. An abundance mentality </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">gives you time and opportunity to serve others.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality let those below them grow and hence </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">give themselves the opportunity to grow even faster and highe</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">r. I keep </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">saying to people that if you are good at what you do, the only place </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">those who want your job can push you is upwards. They work with the</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">best </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">minds. They seek out those who are better than them! A scarcity </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">mentality tells you it is dangerous to let your junior became as good </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">or </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">better than you- nothing could be further from the reality! My career </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">success would not be what it is without those who worked under me.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality know when to Get out before they </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">get </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">stale. I have left some of my previous jobs as soon as I realized that </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">my best was no longer good enough. Some of us stay too long on jobs we </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">do not enjoy hoping that our boss will get out of the way sooner! M y</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">advise to professionals who do not enjoy what they do is - for heavens </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">sake move on elsewhere! At one time I left a job that was so well </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">paying </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">at the time that my wife thought I was crazy- You cannot excel where </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">you </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">do not enjoy!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality have a long term view of life and </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">hence are visionaries</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- they are able to see what many cannot discern. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They create uncharted territories. This is because they already </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">believe </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">everything is possible- How many times have you wondered how come that </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">many times that successful guy/lady is ultimately right? </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Many say he/she knew what they were doing. The truth is that such </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">people </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">operate from a paradigm of abundance.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality are problem solvers and are hence </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">popular with their superiors.</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> They provide unusual solutions to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">problems. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They are able to separate people from the problems. They attract </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">others </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">into the team with their sincerity. I lead many volunteer teams in</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">very </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">successful initiatives. I love looking for the third alternative to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">problems and hence my popularity with employers. The scarcity </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">mentality </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">on the other tells us we should not stick our necks out and should </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">remain as passive followers.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality are courageous.</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> One must however </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">remember that courage is not to absence of fear but more the mastery </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">fear. I have experienced fear in my life- I cannot for example </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">remember </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">anything as fearful as changing jobs. A friend of mine told me </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">recently </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">that a herd of sheep led by a lion will defeat a pack of lions led by</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">sheep! The courage to take action is one of the greatest attributes of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">great leaders. Courage is a consequence of the abundance mentality. </span></span><br />
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</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality understand and respect the law of </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Farm or the law of the harvest.</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> They know how/when to forego immediate </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">gratification in favor of delayed and long term satisfaction. They </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">appreciate that you will reap what you planted!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They understand the need to prepare the ground, plant, weed, water and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">tend before you can harvest. They are not moved by peer pressure. I </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">still marvel at some of my friends who I grew up with who tried to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">violate the law of the harvest - they are or have already paid dearly </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">for this. Imagine if at the age of 18 you have your own chauffeur </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">driven Mercedes? What would you be working for at 50? Does it surprise </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">us that many of our kids are on drugs? We have not exposed them to the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">law of the farm! Those who do not know me for example may not know the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">painstaking effort I have put in my career, like many of you, to get </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">where I am today- seven years ago I was still studying! </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I still take time today to learn new technology and read widely to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">keep </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">myself relevant. An abundance mentality reinforces the law of the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">harvest. The scarcity mentality fools us that we can cheat the law of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the harvest and short-circuit it- it never works!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People with an abundance mentality are passionate about everything </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">they </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">take up</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- They live their short lives in greater harmony than mediocre </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">people. They are ordinarily positive about much in life and this seem </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">produce a self-fulfilling prophecy of success. When they see a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">mountain </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">they think of how best to climb it and not about the dangers of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">climbing. They see opportunity where others see no hope An instructive </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">story is told of two shoe salesmen sent to Africa to see what </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">opportunities there were. One came back saying he was disappointed </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">that</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">there was no market for shoes because the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Natives do not wear shoes. They other came back and saying there was a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">huge opportunity because the natives do not have shoes!</span></span><br />
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</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Professionals with an abundance mentality treat whatever they take on </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">as </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a project</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. A project to be executed so well that it guarantees </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">extension </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">or another project. I like reminding people that like Tom Peters, the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">great management guru keeps telling us - the life of indentured </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">servitude is over! You must treat your job as a project to be executed </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">meticulously and create a brand name for yourself in the banking </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">industry and believe me before long people will be looking for you to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">do </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">other lucrative projects. From Tom Peters masterpiece "the Circle of</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Innovation) in 1998, I discovered this ground Breaking truth that </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">convinced me to leave my job then and never to be Employed again! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Every </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">work I do is a project. I endeavor to complete my projects </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">successfully.</span></span><br />
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</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I will endeavor to finish my Sameer/Yana project as successfully as </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">possible. I will give it my best. Some projects will take longer than </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">others but this does change the Fact that they are projects. I appeal </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">all of us present to stop considering ourselves as permanent</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">employees- </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the 21st century has no place for this! Only successful team players </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">working on deliverable and measurable projects will survive the white </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">collar revolution! If you are under 40 and hoping to retire in your </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">current job, then something is wrong with your project! Seriously</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">re-examine your options. If there is one industry that has been the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">victim of change and technology, it is banking! More retrenchment has </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">been seen in this sector that any other I know- and in my view we have </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">not scratched the surface!! Learn how to be a project contractor</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-there </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">is no longer room for employees in the 21st century!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I would like to conclude my talk with a favorite quotation often </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">wrongly</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">attributed to Nelson Mandela but is actually by Marriane Williamson </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I quote;</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? You are </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a</span></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">child of God.Your playing small does not serve the world. There Is </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We were </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">liberates </span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">others."</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> ~ Marianne Williamson</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I hope you have enjoyed my talk. Thank you and God bless you.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cheers!!!</span></span></div></span></span>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-80820197266033927262010-05-25T17:11:00.000+03:002010-05-25T17:11:15.107+03:00Twitter ListsTwitter list were these amazing things that gave you the ability to view someones tweets without following them or to organise a custom timeline fed by tweets from certain friends, you could have a finance list full of your <a href="http://twitter.com/alykhansatchu">Aly-Khan Satchu's</a> and a humour list full of all the <a href="http://twitter.com/oldfunnyjoker">FunnyJokers </a>on your timeline.<br />
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I prefer to get a good mix everytime I'm on so I don't use them much. I don't see any newbies doing the same. I guess we all created lists when the hype about them was on. The names of the lists also give some insight about what people think of you, I'm in lists from <a href="http://twitter.com/kahenya/maafakas">maafakas</a> to <a href="http://twitter.com/eumagine/friends-i-cannot-follow-y">friends_i_cannot_follow_y</a> , <a href="http://twitter.com/Bobqamz/ubuntu">ubuntu</a> to <a href="http://twitter.com/RafikiKenya/goodguysclub">goodguysclub </a> The range of what people think of me is pretty wide!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6X8S5alTy36Go3O1ahDLQ6dErWk9SsCkGAvyScnYVERNAmBEpxbPtNPRkoaC7AB-Q_aRPoxfq0Iqx9YtkK472KV23qj9_9Z3pV-UBK378m-WWtfo0cjPefVEfvmkbbY3_j_9q3g/s1600/Lists+wordle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6X8S5alTy36Go3O1ahDLQ6dErWk9SsCkGAvyScnYVERNAmBEpxbPtNPRkoaC7AB-Q_aRPoxfq0Iqx9YtkK472KV23qj9_9Z3pV-UBK378m-WWtfo0cjPefVEfvmkbbY3_j_9q3g/s320/Lists+wordle.jpg" /></a></div>I'm on a total of 68 twitter lists,This post is just my way of saying thanks!!Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-76513382920991002842010-05-15T14:12:00.003+03:002010-05-15T14:13:36.120+03:00From the Inbox (Thanks Yvonne!!)<h2 style="display: block; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0.83em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.83em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Declaration of Interdependence<br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />by BJ Gallagher and Lisa Hammond</span></h2><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We hold these truths to be self-evident:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">That all women are created equal -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">but each is blessed with different gifts and talents.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">That all women are endowed with certain individual rights -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">but each must assume shared responsibilities.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">For the happiness of all</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">depends on the commitment of each</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">to support equality and individuality,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">rights and responsibilities.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We declare all women to be mutually interdependent -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">banding together to support one another,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">sharing our experience, strength, and hope,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">that all may enjoy life, love, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">and the pursuit of laughter.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We agree to encourage one another in tough times</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">and celebrate in good times.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We commit to taking turns leading and following,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">inspiring and teaching,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">listening and learning.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We agree to give credit where credit is due -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">including us.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We commit to loving ourselves first - </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">because we can't give what we don't have.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">With this Declaration of Interdependence,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">we set ourselves free -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">free from old beliefs that are no longer true,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">free from self-doubt, insecurity, and loneliness,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">free from self-imposed perfectionism.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We set ourselves free -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">heeding our intuition in all her guises,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">loving our bodies through every change,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">finding our voices to speak our own truths.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We set ourselves free -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">to create fulfilling work,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">to form nurturing families,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">and to build great friendships.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We are strong;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">we are beautiful;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">we are generous;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">we are wise.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We are women -</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">committed to creating</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">a world that affirms us all.</span></div><div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">All you out there be Blessed & Keep Living</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Its a joy to bring a smile to anothers face!!</span></span>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-76901611099680296942010-05-02T21:41:00.001+03:002010-05-02T21:56:42.387+03:00Moa Handpainted<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Incredible <a href="http://www.twitter.com/mole_a">Musa Omusi</a> of Moa Handpainted just made me a new T-Shirt at Blankets & Wine. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLtNQerOEHAQBlI3xitwiGvqC5Pz3EucDtCzsg2w67Zk6bj_yVV23_qjViQB5w0PulkezeMQboJMgN97fuuawQy-7Jofgp5TpMmijYWbxgoJAHvUug7YUKOCu4mQ1jsjAFWmTI4Q/s1600/02052010(005).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLtNQerOEHAQBlI3xitwiGvqC5Pz3EucDtCzsg2w67Zk6bj_yVV23_qjViQB5w0PulkezeMQboJMgN97fuuawQy-7Jofgp5TpMmijYWbxgoJAHvUug7YUKOCu4mQ1jsjAFWmTI4Q/s320/02052010(005).jpg" /></a></div>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-39588141617575085232010-03-16T16:51:00.010+03:002010-03-16T17:30:08.767+03:00QR Codes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWgUnHc05fNLl1xfN9dCLjoOs4b8d1TpOLf_pry24PnZG6VxjhErbv9w2sdjeupE-Y-kyqkD7q0NyI8ixX8TLhmVjfUL1J8WrZjm15hEnjKFOmDgwVm-byKweK07eQalfQoS_-sQ/s1600-h/FB.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWgUnHc05fNLl1xfN9dCLjoOs4b8d1TpOLf_pry24PnZG6VxjhErbv9w2sdjeupE-Y-kyqkD7q0NyI8ixX8TLhmVjfUL1J8WrZjm15hEnjKFOmDgwVm-byKweK07eQalfQoS_-sQ/s400/FB.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449236656583505682" /></a><br /><br />Facebook has recently implemented a system that creates QR Coded status messages.<br /><br />Whats a QR Code?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXcQZQ8Z0XSIpV6SGqYBAsbdr1YYWsQC3m5kUpIhw2tBItKSfbg-2qSWSSSOb36L2GV1JKFDlVk5GDUu8qx723HXKFxy6DjiTMvImNRSyLrYRk6Gaxt9yMOlW2UqoUuc3mGXATfw/s1600-h/E63+Club+of+Nairobi.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 313px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXcQZQ8Z0XSIpV6SGqYBAsbdr1YYWsQC3m5kUpIhw2tBItKSfbg-2qSWSSSOb36L2GV1JKFDlVk5GDUu8qx723HXKFxy6DjiTMvImNRSyLrYRk6Gaxt9yMOlW2UqoUuc3mGXATfw/s400/E63+Club+of+Nairobi.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449230080809208066" /></a><br /><br />According to Wikipedia, a QR Code is a two-dimensional bar code created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.<br /><br />A QR code can store up to 4,296 characters of text or just about 2MB of binary data. Once intepreted, the data recorded can lead you to a website.prompt you to make a phone call or send a text or e-mail.<br /><br />You can even create a vCard to add a contact to your device or provide location coordinates in Google Maps. <br /><br />As you can see, the possibilities are endless!!<br /><br />QR Codes need to be interpreted by a reader, the Kaywa reader is the best I've seen so far for Nokia S60 Devices, download it for free here ~ <a href="http://reader.kaywa.com">http://reader.kaywa.com</a> (registration required)<br /><br />Are there any other code readers you use?<br /><br />Join the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=361099801547">E63 Club of Nairobi</a> on Facebook for more updates<br /><br />You can create your own QR Codes <a href="http://keremerkan.net/php-qr-code-and-data-matrix-generator/">here </a>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31056031.post-56703118842464764772010-02-10T19:40:00.001+03:002010-02-10T19:50:33.399+03:00Contract (from the Inbox)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; ">I am very happy to inform you that I have had feelings for<br />you since Tuesday, the 10th of March 2007. With<br />reference to the meeting held between us on the 7th of<br />January 2008 at 1500 hours outside Georgette's house, I would like to present<br />myself as a prospective lover.<br /><br />Our love affair would be on probation for a period of<br />three months and depending on compatibility, would be made permanent.<br /><br />Of course, upon completion of probation, there will be continuous<br />on-the-relationship training and relationship appraisal schemes leading up<br />to promotion from lover to spouse.<br /><br />The expenses incurred for coffee and entertainment<br />would initially be shared equally between us. Later,<br />based on your performance, I might take up a larger<br />share of the expenses. However I am broad-minded<br />enough, to be taken care of on your expense account.<br /><br />Unless otherwise stated, the normal meeting/communication<br />times shall be Monday to Friday and the normal hours are:-<br /><br />* Monday to Friday - Evening 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.<br />* Any time Saturday or Sunday as the need arises<br /><br />I may at my sole discretion vary or amend the said<br />meeting/communication hours or days.<br /><br />During the relationship hereunder you shall not either directly or indirectly<br />be permitted to be engaged in any other relationship unless specifically<br />authorised in writing.<br /><br />You shall declare immediately to me by phone fax, or e-mail if you<br />are offered or recieve a benefit, gift, award, or prize from a male third party,<br />where the monetary value of such gift is in excess of Ksh 500 or if the<br />aforementioned gift can be assigned any emotional value.<br /><br />Your appearance should at all times project a pleasing image<br /><br />If you accept the contract on the terms and conditions specified within,<br />kindly send a blank e-mail to accept.rkunga@gmail.com.<br /><br />In the event I do not hear from you within a period of fourteen (14) days,<br />I shall infer that you do not wish to accept my offer in which event<br />the aforementioned offer shall lapse.<br /><br />Please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned for further<br />information or clarification<br /><br />Thanking you in anticipation.</span>Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163633227004606973noreply@blogger.com1