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Dennis Kioko: January 2015
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Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling. Monday, 26 January 2015. Press Release: Twitter introduces “While you were away” feature on your timeline. Nairobi, Kenya: January 23nd, 2015:. Twitter, has unveiled a new feature that will enable its users have a recap of what they may have missed while they were away. To fill in some of those gaps, Twitter is surfacing a few of the best Tweets users probably wouldn’t have seen otherwise, determined by. The b...
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Dennis Kioko: December 2014
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Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling. Tuesday, 30 December 2014. Can we solve the KCPE problem by abolishing ranking? If every time you measure something, a problem is revealed. You can solve that problem by stopping the measuring,. The purpose of an education is to impart knowledge, rather than rank small children. As usual, we are missing the point, or as I happened to be taught, missing the forest for the trees. Why? So while we don't officiall...
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Dennis Kioko: November 2013
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Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling. Monday, 25 November 2013. Why Kenyans love Kigali (Part 1). Part of Kigali by night, including part of KG 7 Avenue. Standing at Telecoms House at KG 7 Avenue as the sun sets, one can clearly see that Kigali spreads over four or five hills (Wikipedia says they are four). One would swear that Kigali is a small city in size, but many will be surprised to hear that Kigali, at 700 kilometres squared is the same...
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Dennis Kioko: July 2013
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Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling. Friday, 19 July 2013. How Safaricom clients are being robbed by PRSPs through hidden charges. The silent airtime deductions that are done by PRSPs. Ever received an SMS asking you to subscribe to some service to listen to some mundane song, as if that stuff isn't available on the Internet for free? If your answer to the above two questions is Yes, then you are probably paying your hard earned cash for that crap.
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Dennis Kioko: Orange River Cellars Wines - Kenya's New Sweet and Dry Wines
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Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling. Sunday, 30 June 2013. Orange River Cellars Wines - Kenya's New Sweet and Dry Wines. Wine brand in town. There have been a host of South African wines, ranging from the boxed Namaquas (Namaqua is a place in South Africa, now you know) to the Mara's (yeah, it's a South African wine) to African's Five Chenin Blanc, which is among my favourite in Kenya. Executives from the firm tell me that they also supply wine t...
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Dennis Kioko: Kenya, regulated oil prices, taxing keg, and the laws of unintended consequences
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Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling. Sunday, 28 December 2014. Kenya, regulated oil prices, taxing keg, and the laws of unintended consequences. Laws to stop Kenyans from being exploited have instead entrenched the. Exploitation in law. Image - oilnewskenya.com. A law meant to make oil cheaper for Kenyans made it more expensive. The politicians even went ahead and decided that it was not only the oil companies that were fleecing Kenyans, but many...
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Dennis Kioko: December 2013
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Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling. Wednesday, 18 December 2013. A ride on the new Nairobi Commuter Railway from Imara Daima Railway Station. Boarding the train at Imara Daima Railway station. Inside the train, with one of the guards employed to watch the trains. Today, it did look busy, they didn't appear to be many people, but there were police officers. A lorry carrying ballast had tipped over by the side of the road, and this was slowing...
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Dennis Kioko: March 2015
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Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling. Sunday, 29 March 2015. The rise of the "influencer" and the death of the blog as we knew it. The so called DP emergency rechargeable light costs a mere Ksh. 700,. But is one of the best lights in the Kenyan market. . But thats not why I am writing this story. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Kenya Power customers suffer from Ksh 0.5 billion faulty prepaid meters. The silent airtime deductions th...
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Dennis Kioko: The bitter story of the downfall of Mumias Sugar company
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Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling. Thursday, 8 January 2015. The bitter story of the downfall of Mumias Sugar company. A spoonful of sugar, but for who? Image: Carol Wallis on Flickr. Have you heard the bitter story of Mumias Sugar? Regarded by many as Kenya's most successful sugar miller, Mumias Sugar Company was a disaster waiting to happen. But what ails Kenya's sugar industry? This has eventually resulted in a situation where you could some...
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Dennis Kioko: August 2013
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Kenya, Africa: General life and a dash of ICT usually with a satirical and critical sprinkling. Saturday, 10 August 2013. How Kenyan mobile users are "accidentally" charged for services they didn't buy. From RoamTech's 2254 and. Refund of deducted airtime. StartTimes clients to other. Last time, I told you guys about how some fishy company was deducting my Safaricom airtime, silently. Not have been passed through them. They duly refunded the KSh. 120 that they had. Deducted from my account. Customer care...
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