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To Michelle Victim of Terrorism Always love & miss you... |
| ... THOUGHTS ... |
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| It takes 6 times as many muscles to frown as it does to smile. Frown and lose more weight! |
| ... WHAT'S NEW ... |
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| If you've not signed my guest book SHAME ON YOU! Can you do it NOW |
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| Bill Clinton | Samson | ||
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| ... THINKER'S CALENDAR ... |
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| November 19: Have been invited
to a visit of sorts. Things are complicated by the fact that I have
no clue as to why I have been invited and despite clever and apparently
innocent questions, those details have not been forthcoming at all! November 20: Retire Imelda from active service. After close to 6 years of service and almost 6 different OSes later she is beginning to show her age by forgetting things and creaking at her joints. But I shall keep her around for her wisdom and guidance. This is the only lady that I could read like a book! November 23: Corporate dinner! The good thing with the end of the year is that one gets invited to all sorts of get-togethers, parties and such. Which I don't mind at all! Roast beef and potatoes shall be dispensed with ruthlessly and finally I get a chance to show off that I know what a fish knife is! November 24: Visit to Children's home in Hurlingham. If it is anything like the last, I shall get my hair pulled, my shins kicked, my shirt tugged and my back thrown up on. However I shall get to go down on hands and knees and be ridden like a horse, I shall shamelessly play house and soccer with the kids and have myself a merry old time. It shall be fun! November 29: Eve of the eve of my Birthday! November 30: Eve of my birthday. You'd better have my presents ready and gift wrapped! |
| ... STUFF TO DO ... |
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CONVINCE NICE GIRL
THAT AM A NICE GUY LEARN TO KNIT HAVE THE LAST WORD
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| ... STUFF I HAVE ... |
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THE AFGHANISTAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION COMMUNIQUÉ. JOURNAL:
Read extracts from my journal. Most of the interesting stuff is there
and I am thinking about sharing with you the really neat stuff like
when I helped milk a cow that turned out was a Friesian bull.... DEDICATIONS:
Take a look and see if you are here... ESSAYS:
An essay for consumption (and knowing fellows, copying pasting and
forwarding!) AGUMBARU'S
CORNER: Take a look at the agumbaru's corner -- (see if you're
there!) PICTURE worth a thousand
words... |
| ... NEXT UPDATE ... |
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| I will update this site whenever it
strikes me to and no sooner! This could be daily or annually -- the
choice is fully and totaly up to me! No pleas, threats, bribes, or
cookies will induce me to do otherwise. (Unless they are really good
cookies) For comments, please note the spellings of the words: OBNOXIOUS, SARCASTIC. SILLY has two Ls |
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  God bless the fools -- they make the rest of us seem intelligent! UPDATED Monday, November 19 2001, 0530 GMT (Gumbaru Mean Time) |
| ... Hola!... | |
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It's been an interesting weekend indeed. At least for me. (And yes, I won't mind knowing how you wasted yours!) On Friday I had the misfortune of having a very short interlude with some paramilitary policemen and their hounds. Spent a leisurely Saturday breaking in very uncomfortable sneakers as well as visiting old friends as well as not so old friends. And by the way my dear L, I am no player of basketball! I don't mind watching but playing is something else! Those who recall my school days will recall my unwilling and ungraceful presence on the basketball court! Never mind my height -- the game just did not captivate me. My thing has always been and will continue to be, RUGBY, though I admit in my more tender years I suffered from a chronic fear of that game until one day a chap called Joe(that lad's sadistic streak had to be seen to be believed) unceremoniously and spectacularly did his best to drive my person below ground level on a rugby pitch slightly harder than cast iron. The resulting agony and ire left me with a reckless and do-or-die suicide attitude that still continues to serve me well. The next thing I knew I was the #5 and first jumper for the rudge team! Ah, the memories of youth... |
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Finally began archiving all the stuff that I have done. From
the last edition onwards I shall be archiving stuff chiefly so I can
avoid being smacked on the head by people who missed past issues.
Read Friday's Edition After a short session
with a very good lady ;-) I have been convinced to use Macromedia's
Dreamweaver instead of good old Helios'
Textpad as my editor of chouce. This is principally because I
was getting jolly tired of running around my own site looking for
my images and files! Gone too are all the problems of broken links!
However TextPad will of course remain because it is simply a jolly
good editor for other things like web and shell scripting as well
as programming, especially C and Java. But for wesite development
and managemet -- Dreamweaver rules! |
| ... FESTIVE SEASONING! ... |
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| With the festive season creeping
closer and closer I realize yet again that the number of Christmas
gifts and cards that I need to acquire, as well as gifts
and cards for those of us with excellent timing that happened to be
born in the festive season is simply ludicrous. Last
year I was forced to buy an entire box of cards and only 5
were left over, not becacuse they were not addressed to anyone but
I could not remember their addresses (These cards I shall re-use!)
And don't forget that a large number of Kenyans have an ungrateful
streak that beggars description so your hard gotten tokens of appreciation
are quite likely to be disposed off ruthlessly! There are those who
will warmly receive your good cheer and shamelessly bid you a Merry
Christmas and disappear over the horizon! And you'd be lucky to get
anything in return from some of these species! But all in all it's
all good. Christmas comes by but once a year and it is quite
silly to moderate your good cheer by that of others
so yet again I am rubbing hands in almost childish anticipation to
receiving ill coloured ties so loud that when you enter a room
you are accompained by a sonic boom. I look forward to receiving
ornaments that if I think very hard I recall seeing on the
owner's dining tables and sideboards. I look forward to receiving
novels and comics that I have already read several times.
I look forward to receiving boxes and tins of foods
with questionable origins and even more questionable flavour.
And most of all I look forward to seeing the appreciation on
the faces of friends when out of the blue they are presented with
a small token followed almost immediately by the look of panic
and horror when they realize that they do not have anything
to give in return! Be very careful... |
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| I have nothing against relatives. Heck, right now I occupy precisely that post in the lives of quite a number of people! But what I object against, and very strongly at that is the situation that I find myself in at present. At the Abode I am surrounded by relatives. Relatives ooze from every pore. When a door is opened relatives spill from the opened doorway. Stretch out a hand and you will touch a relative. Do a cartwheel and you will send some fifteen relatives tumbling off balance. Talk loudly and you will be cuffed by at least three relatives. It is unfortunate that as the festive season draws nearer the Abode will attract relatives like a magnet! If this season is anything like the last I will take to the streets in protest! I object to being ordered around in my own house! I object to having some little brat play in my bed and leave behind both solid and liquid residue that is only detected just after you have lowered your weary person onto the bed! I object to having my stock of assorted sweets, biscuits and fruits plundered ruthlessly by individuals who seem to possess bottomless pits where the rest of us have stomachs! I object to making small talk when I'd rather not be making small talk! I object to smiling foolishly as I am informed that I was known since I was knee high! I object to being asked silly questions like "Do you remember me? I was there when you were born!" Well, I was also there when I was being born and I don't jolly well remember a thing about me, let alone you! Aaargh! |
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| ... LINKS ... |
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Links Kenyan: Kenyan portal with links to just about anything
even remotely Kenyan and more! Mwenyewe: The ramblings of a Kenyan. Worth a look! VisualBuider.com: Windows Development site with all sorts of neat tips and tricks. Check it out! Audio Galaxy!!: Now this is a site where you can get music from Aaliyah to Ziggy Marley. The good people who run this site are responsible for the fact that close to 2GB of Imelda my workstation have been taken over by MP3s that show no sign of leaving... Cartoon Network!!: Er... my small brother insisted that I put this in. OK, Ok -- I LIE! One of my favourite sites! Mashada: If you want to waste a lot of time that would be better spent studying or doing some actual work, waste it here! SourceForge.Net: Now this here is THE site for developers and development Sun Java: Sun's Microsysytems' Official Java Site Mwanamke: And I thought I was weird... |
| ... TECHIE TALK ... |
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| I'm thinking of a small contest for the technical people out there.
It's very simple: come up with the most complicated way of
writing the string "I LOVE KENYA". I will only entertain
the languages I understand (And no smart comments about English Neither!!!)
so you are only open to use: Java Visual Basic Power Builder JavaScript VBScript PHP Pascal C++ Delphi PERL C Am still teaching myself Prolog, PYTHON and C# but send your knowledge anyway to the usual address: Rad_DeC@go.com |
| ... ONE OF A KIND ... |
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| Stacy (Hmm...), Rasna (You're too kind...), Anissa (Will anything ever get you down?), Cynthia (Proved that distance cannot break friendships), Geoff (You've got courage and fortitude my guy!), Brenda (That trip to Coast sounds good to me!) Jimo (You're a thoroughly interesting brother), John (juanad for 15 years and still going strong) Josephine (African Queen -- how's that??) Benja (Working with you is not boring!) Wanja (Thanks for the support), Emma (Greatest laugh I've ever heard), Njeri, Sam, Allan, Joe na kadhalika (Pals 4 ever)! And you too Grace M Kuria! U seem to have forgotten we share the same earth, but you're a pal anyway! And Gathoni of the Friesians -- me I am a man of Guernsey's, but you're cool! Sinei (Sarcasm personified! He he!) Laura... Tea and cookies, aye? |
| ... CONTACTS ... |
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| Don't call me, I'll call you! I'm too lazy to write some database stuff to gather your feedback so if you are really inspired you can catch me at Rad_Dec@go.com Or vent in the Guest Book. Please send suggestions, thoughts, rants and raves and anything you like to me. I however reserve the right to delete your mail without even reading it! |
| ... WHERE WOULD I BE WITHOUT ME? ... |
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I would like to thank Me for all the support I have
given myself. I am one of a kind and I admire the time I have taken
to do this when I could be doing other more interesting things like
shelling peas. Let us not forget
Myself for the valuable contribution as well , of course,
as I who is indispensable to this project! There will also be
some people who will want to be thanked effusively despite the fact
that they have contributed nothing whatsoever. But I will thank
them anyway when I can remember their names and when they are actually
looking over my shoulder and I have no choice but to thank them for
nothing! |
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