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February 22: Anniversary of an Uncle of Mine -- 20 years of marital bliss!
February 24: Unconfirmed visit to street kids rehabilitation center.
March 1: Miss Universe Kenya Chapter at The Carnivore! Shall be there with bells on! Let's all go!!!
March 2: Koi's Birthday Bash. Again shall be there!
March 3: Recharge batteries from March 1 and March 2.

A KUMI KIMI Guide for the novices. A MUST read!
A POEM for someone special!
DEAREST JOHN: John Doe's better half replies with energy to issues raised by her worse half!
DEAREST JANE: A man addresses issues such as crossing rivers for his beloved...
FAVOURITE MOVIES Some notable personalities share their favourite flicks
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE AFGHANISTANI BROADCASTING CORPORATION The proprietor of Afghanistan's first TV studio shares his visions
DEDICATIONS: Music is the language of the heart -- touching messages to loved and not so loved ones

Boy has this been a week and a half! I am totally exhausted! The sleep I have got in the past week is the amount most of us get in a single day! Yes, we know you, you lazy slob!!!

I for one am waiting very keenly for March. Very keenly indeed because it will herald a bit of fun and games as I will have several substantial milestones including obscure examinations and project deadlines behind me. Ahh.. The very thought brings a smile to my face....

This issue of mobile phones is beginning to become a bit much. I for one have refused to be drawn into the culture of having an urge to make phone calls in full view and earshot of the public but there are Children of their parents who feel that mobile calls should only be made when there are passers by nearby to appreciate it!

Take for instance this lad I ran into on Thursday. We are all in a vehicle heading to Town from South B, and as a matter of fact we are right outside Mater Hospital

The chap then proceeds to whip out an Ericsson the size of a small school bus and after much rattling and beeping he has gotten through to his recipient. After the preliminary greetings the fellow then proceeds to shamelessly speak out "Give me just three minutes. I am in town now and should be there in a few minutes."

Those of us trying to mind our own business could not resist this. We were nowhere near town. We were not even halfway to town. And here is a feller shamelessly lying through his teeth. As if to emphasize this the fellow proceeded to explain that he was currently on Moi Avenue and was making his way to the destination. Worry not, he assured his opposite on the other side of the connection.

At this point in time the conductor swung into the matatu without any ceremony and clearly he was not about to humour anyone, known to him or not. Without further ado he went on to yell:

"BEBA! Gari towni gari towni! ISHIRINI gari, South B Towni! Beba auntie!"

The conductor is one of those fellers with a carrying voice and there is no doubt that the person on the other side of the line received all this and immediately raised queries. Listening to the hapless caller try to explain this away was a study in human nature!

I have managed after pulling a lot of my hair out of my head to get a number of things running on Gathoni (My notebook AND Windows 2000 server) without interfering with everything else or each other and bringing the system down to its knees. This has been necessary because there are several different projects to be implemented using several different technologies, platforms and devices! This I can assure you is an exercise that would bring even a clone of Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates to their knees. The vocabulary I have used when faced with error messages! But at long last I have got the following services running in a manner that is befitting a well behaved occupant of my hard disk:

• Java Server Pages
• Perl
• Python
• PHP
• InterBase
• SQL Server
• Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere
• IIS 5

"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."

Finally summoned the energy to start work on those articles that I have been promising and have already done two or three. Watch this space!
Postpone the idea of the essays at least for the first few months. I shall get to them in good time
Write lots more of those articles that everyone is harassing me to write.
Let you sample some of My other works. I invite opinions on some of the short stories I've written
Change the entire layout of the page

Otherwise everything will pretty much me the same ;-)

I have a constitutional right to give My own shout-outs to whoever I please!

George: Dude, do you study to be an idiot or are you like that naturally? I said it before and I will say it again -- if you have beef you say it in a civilized manner. Abuse I refuse to entertain!
Angie: I wish I'd seen your message sooner!
Jozie: We have taken the maiden from the village. Can we take the village out of the maiden?
Mightypeople: I think you are Mightyfoolish for sending me Mightyamounts of Mightynonsense that I did not Mightyask for. For the Mightylast time would you kindly Mightystop sending me your MightyCrap?!!
That jackass trying to sell me mailing lists: I shall make sure I subscribe you to as many mailing lists that I can find!
Jimmy: You, sir, are the don of dons!
RIP: What's cooking man?!!
Judy: Time's A wasting!
Cherie: Silence is not always golden!
Byran: Am open to suggestions
Geff: How did it go? Did you go all out then??!