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Motherhood 26 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
Pregnancy This is certainly the easiest part of the motherhood journey. Being pregnant is a glorious, life changing experience, although some women would differ with the ‘glorious’ part. If ever I ha...
BarCamp Nairobi 2013 is almost here! 22 Aug 2013 | 04:03 pm
BarCamp is an international network of user-generated unconferences primarily focused around technology and the Web. By definition, an unconference is a participant-driven meeting that tries to avoid ...
Newsdrift: Your Local News App 20 Aug 2013 | 01:16 pm
I only read the hard copy newspaper on weekends, when I have time to browse through my favorite columns. However on weekdays, I catch up on news through the websites (most are mobile unfriendly), by g...
Ake, The Years of Childhood: Book Review 16 Aug 2013 | 05:29 pm
I was walking through the Prestige Bookshop on Mama Ngina St. browsing though the titles, looking for books by an African author. I asked if “There was a country” by the late Chinua Achebe which I int...
The Social Media Awards Gala 14 Aug 2013 | 12:59 pm
The inaugural social media awards were a success, I can proudly report. While I was not an organizer, I was one of the judges who had to narrow down the nominees in each category to 5; and then the pu...
Always Platinum – Why You Should Get It 14 Aug 2013 | 12:58 pm
Always Platinum was launched in Kenya at a colourful event at Sankara, where yours truly made an appearance. While everybody was in dresses and heels, I missed the memo on dress code and appeared in j...
Conveniences of the Online World 7 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
With internet costs in Kenya quite high and suspicion about trading online on the same level, not many people are transacting online. However, for me, it’s a regular thing. I can’t tell you what a con...
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky : Book Review 5 Aug 2013 | 04:52 pm
This is one among the many free e-books available in the Aldiko reader installed on my Samsung S4 (just saying). I made several attempts at starting the book; the setting is strange at least to me, si...
In Search of the Perfect Product: Always Platinum 31 Jul 2013 | 02:15 pm
I was shocked to find out that if you’re having your period you cannot take communion. That’s just absurd. Apparently you’re considered ‘unclean’. Is this the kind of thing we are teaching our young g...
I Love My Job 26 Jul 2013 | 01:46 pm
When I try to ask myself who am I, and what am I doing on this earth and such like questions that have no real answers; it is usually because I’m trying to find direction and motivation on the way for...
