Hello again( getting tiring isn't it ).
Update on my celtel story.

• I still haven't contacted them about the charger( yeah, i'm that lazy )
• But on the bright side I have just gotten myself a telkom wireless line. If all goes extremely well, I should be able to use my data-card to surf with said line.

Anyway Safaricom 3G is crap! same sped as edge on my 3.5G phone, so guess what despite a 3G data-crd am sticking to celtels EDGE and Telkoms EVDO.
Baadaye!

Viva la Revolucion

net for the masses( i think)

Okay, so now a am in the cyber-cafe, suxxx that i am in the cyber cafe when i got a 3G phone AND datacard but .... I need net and my bevices dont work.
By the way, Nairobi is now supposed to be one giant hotspot courtesy of our benevolent dictator, oops, monopoly, safaricom. wish i could get me some of that, you see I live in the city but the 3G coverage stops just about 4 Km's from where I live @ so i cannot take advantage of this safcom 3G
(actually good for them coz the weight of ma downloads would have brought down their system anyway.... sour grapes)
Anyway it just goes to show how we in africa can still get the best that technology has to offer. I am a techie so I love the idea of 3G but both safcom and celtel have been on EDGE for a while now and most people still cant take advantage of this, i smell a marketting rat
Only rich folks are interested in 3G hence nice revenue( plus it is so fast you dont realise till your 5000/- bob credit runs out in the middle of the latest Kanye-West video download). Theoretically they charge the same for EDGE services hence same revenue but they cant milk it quite as much.
People the best way we got of taking the web to the masses is through EDGE, but even my preffered carrier, celtel with their great network, sem to be playing down the capabilities of EDGE. it is slow, but it is everywhere, and if web-designers( me ) were to code for low bandwidth( remeber that class? ) we would be really able to help out those guys without much aceess to the internet who dont know that their fone are GPRS/EDGE enabled.

enough of my rambling. and someone, PLEASE read my blog!

In the Salon

Guess what, Now am in the salon, (Expression in nax), some guyz from school are creating a magazine and guess what? we will be on the very first edition. hah!
Anyway its been quite an experience, i mean they put make-up on me back in Kampala( during the shooting of the episodes ) but having it done with so much detail, this time for a magazine article is a whole different story.
My face got scrubbed like never before and its wierd but yeah! i feel pretty right now.
I will get back to the blog soon, they are calling us into the studio right now for our photo-shoot. bye!

P.S am still pissed about lack of a charger but things don't look so bad after a few days.
Hey Az, thanxx for use of your laptop and datacard.

Still pissed!

They gave a laptop but the charger doesn't work, what the? anyway i have just managed to get online with the comp(like right now). on top of that i just found out that the datacard has issues. what am i gonna do now. any way my coffe and code filled nights will have to wait i guess.

What the? They gave me a faulty laptop!

Reality

Let me explain why i started the clog yesterday. I am a recent participant in an africa-wide trivia competition called the Celtel Africa Challenge. We (read Egerton emerged champions. As a result we were 2 to get a laptop computer, a mobile phone. And other prizes adding up 2 USD1500. We finally got them yesterday. Thats where my blog started.

Finally got our prizes

Today we finally got them! our laptops and fones and am looking forward to days and nights of endless coding and coffee (black no sugar)