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20:25
Good food...
» Mo-Mo Baggins Good food...
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19:00
Kongonis Cross Arrows Off Winning List
» Kenya Cricket A buccaneering innings of 84 not out by Mark Symonds, built on Simon Mayes' more measured 55, put Kenya Kongonis on the road to a comfortable four-wicket victory over Cross Arrows at Lord's, the home of cricket in London, on Tuesday (Sept 29).
Set 239 to win, the Kenyans reached the target with more than four overs to spare, Toby Briggs thrashing 47 in the closing stages to bring Kongonis up with the run rate.
Cross Arrows started well and, after 25 overs, were 134 for 2; after 35 they were 198 for 5, but the accurate bowling of slow left-armer Simon Prodger (4-41) and young spinner Jake Allcock-Ward (3-40) reduced this to 222 for 8, then to 238 all out in the 44th over. The other wickets were grabbed by Briggs, Alex Cudworth and Tim Davy.
In their reply Kongonis got off to an inauspicious start when openers Neil Trestrail and Allcock-Ward were both back in the pavilion with only 25 on the board. But Mayes and Martin Smith (17) showed patience and batted steadily, to give Kongonis a platform from which, on 139 for 4 off 35 overs, they were able to chase down the 100 runs required for victory off less than the 15 overs left.
Captain for the day Simon Prodger said afterwards: "It was a good win against a decent side on a wicket that was a little more difficult than it appeared. It was particularly pleasing that this was done with what was a youngish side. It bodes well for the future."
Indeed the victory brought to an end a good season in England for Kenya Kongonis. Their initial victory over Charterhouse Friars on July 5 was followed by a 10-match 'tour' in which three games were won, three drawn, two abandoned and only two lost.
The senior side's performance has been a good reflection of the Kongonis Development side's progress in Division One of the Nairobi Provincial Cricket Association's revamped league, where there have been some notable performances.
Cross Arrows: 238 all out (S. Prodger 4-41, J. Allcock-Ward 3-40)
Kenya Kongonis: 239 for 6 (M. Syminds 84*, . Mayes 55, T. Briggs 47).
Kenya Kongonis: N. Trestrail, P. Allcock, S. Mayes, T. Briggs, M. Smith, M. Symonds, S, Prodger, J. Allcock-Ward, N. Wright, A. Cudworth, T. Davy.
(Kenya Kongonis p12, w5, d3, l2, a2).
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18:24 Hackers attack Kenya ruthlessly…
» johnkaranja.com 
Spammed by Russia
I logged in to the admin section of this website to discover that i had been spammed (SQL Injection Hacks) into yet another tiring routine of deleting comments and lose 20 more minutes of my life carefully perusing through spam and actual comments.
Spam is increasingly becoming a huge expense and burden on almost anyone who uses the internet to check mail or communicate.
Assuming i earn $15 for every hour of productivity. It means i am loosing 1/3 of $15 = $5 every day which translates to a whopping $150 every month due to useless spam.
If a company has 200 people that rely on email that translates to $30,000 monthly loss and an unbelievable $460,000 lost to spam.
The estimate is even worse if we take a country which has conservatively 100 companies with over 200 people employed as staff who face this problem. In this case the country looses $46,000,000 roughly Kshs 3.7 billion to such spam attacks.
Such figures should immediately prompt the Kenyan government to set up safe guards that protect Kenyan websites and servers from Spam traffic that originates mostly from Russian/Siberian servers. This should be a project for the Communications Commission of Kenya and National Security Intelligence Service Cyber War unit.
This country is in a de facto state of war for which its security agencies are inadequately prepared. In the past 6 months the following websites have been hacked.
- StateHouse.co.ke which is the Presidents personal website.
- Capitalfm.co.ke which is one of Kenya’s leading websites.
- EquityBank.co.ke which was cloned by Nigerian scammers [See Proof]
Rumour has it that the most famous hack was in 2008 when the Department of Defence was attempting to transfer money to Ukrainian arms dealers over unsecured protocols (specifically [http)] when the money (in Billions) got intercepted by Russian hackers who presumably proceeded to have to largest party ever courtesy of Kenyan tax payers.
Hackers are having a field day in this country its time we got organized.
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16:04
Merci beaucoup à tout le monde…
» kaasa Enclosure: [download]
Hi folks (Here’s one for the road…) — I hope you are all very good. Thanks everybody for letting me know your wishes. Thanks for your emails and comments. The reason behind my desire to lock the blog is beyond the scope of this post. – But it appears that the amount of readers who want [...]
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Invincible? I guess not...
» Mo-Mo Baggins Invincible? I guess not...
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14:44
Sabbatical
» KA-INVESTOR 
As I start a new year in my life, I’ve decided to take a break from blogging (this includes interacting on debate-type forums with my good friends at twitter.com and elsewhere). Several posts, tweets and discussions down the line; I have discovered something about myself that I think others knew before I caught on: I can get fairly absorbed in this cyber-interaction thing. There are others things, for the time being, I want to spend more time with. Life can get quite hectic sometime with work, family and its general happenings.
I will still be commenting and reading yours (you know yourselves). When I come back from this sabbatical, I’ll have a new perspective and ready to get what is trapped in my heart and head out.
I can still be found on email at kainvestor@gmail.com. I hope to continue nurturing friendships already made via these mediums.
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14:04
Recession Bites: Back On The Grid
» The African Accent 
Why lie, life without a cell phone is hard. So, I started shopping again. This time, I am determined not to sign up to the usual Canadian phone companies that charge ridiculous cell phone rates. Last week, I stumbled on the best deal I have ever seen.For $20/month, Witel will give me a phone number from practically any country, caller ID and voicemail, free incoming calls, and unlimited calling to at least 48 countries. Beat that Rogers Wireless!
The only catch is that I need an IPhone, or the mostly unrated Witel Jetter handset that they are offering for $60. But still, not a bad deal at all.
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13:46
Yes We Can Reform But No Lectures Please
» You Missed This 
Kofi Annan has landed, breathing fire down our necks and ready to give a progress report for an examination we never sat in the first place. Unfortunately Annan's gloomy assessment is exclusively premised on misinformation and prediction of Armageddon. Otherwise he would readily accept the impressive distinction of 90% pass as graded by our own competent Alfred Mutua, PhD.
Dr. Annan is here but he must be reminded that Kenya is no toddler in need of babysitting. He played his part last February, we appreciated it and he now better learns never to attempt extending the handshake past the elbow.
The US would do themselves a great deal of good in accepting the basic truism that sanctions and threats never work as diplomatic tools. The Americans can keep their laser-guided sanctions to their political labs and spare Kenya uninvited lectures on good governance.
YES WE CAN reform ourselves and our country BUT at our own pace. We are sovereign and independent with a FLAG to boot. Just like we defeated the late Smith Hempstone during his nyama choma gimmicks packaged as advocating for multiparty, the activist Renneberger stands no chance to shake us as a country.
Kenya is no Somalia or Zimbabwe and one Johnny-come-lately Carson better learn to respect his ex-host. Invoking Obama’s name at the sight of every microphone will not make any difference-Kenya is for Kenyans, PERIOD. Michael better revise notes from the late Rogue Ambassador Smith who consorted with the likes of Kamau Kuria and Kiraitu Murungi then.
Laser-guided bans
We only have one centre of power and the presidency is our singular symbol of UNITY. Uhuru and Murage may have desecrated the hallowed grounds of State House by using it as a venue to plot Naivasha massacres but that does not make the legal tenant guilty by association.
President Kibaki was there and saw it all as an opposition politician. Renneberger’s antics amount to playing a melodious tune to a HE-GOAT, no dance nor nodding. Even the loudmouthed EU and Canada are welcome to jump into that expanded bin of irrelevance.
Make no mistake, we adopted multipartysm at our own pace and nobody can claim otherwise. The world has changed and America’s high handedness will only push us into PRODUCTIVE business with China and Iran. What is more, these fledging economies have plenty of resources and help to help Kenya realize v2030 in light years.
No country but Kenya can have reforms in the constitutional review, land, boundary, police and the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission in less than a year. Add that to the on-going electoral reforms, judiciary, youth employment and National Cohesion and Integration Commission and you are staring an emerging AFRICA TIGER in the face.
The so-called international community needs new names to paint as faces of impunity. One Prof Alston may be showing his post molars in glee after Major Ali quit but that is it. AG Wako has served us diligently for 20 years and nobody is more qualified to be CJ than Gicheru. Sorry the guillotine must run on empty, no more heads.
We are miles ahead of the pack and deserve no patronizing lectures which only succeed in provoking our EXECUTIVE FOUL MOOD.Kumekucha
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12:55
Rape of Kenya
» Diary of a gay Kenyan Lions have been prowling Nairobi malls and streets in the ongoing Pride of Kenya exhibition. I think it’s a cool way to create awareness and raise some money for conservation.
This got me thinking about a piece of artwork that I’ve been planning on getting commissioned. It’s a large fibreglass model of an erect penis (the height of 2 adult elephants stacked, one on top of another and as thick as the trunk of the baobab trees along Kenya’s coast) which will actually be a water fountain. This will be spouting and pumping the water into another huge model of an arse (about the size of ex-President Moi’s Uhuru Park monument). Later we can add sounds of an entire village having a simultaneous orgasm. Like a giant’s roar aaaarrrgghh aaaraarrgh. I’ll ask some engineer friends on the viability of a device to simulate the jerking at the end. Also we can have the water dyed so that it looks like the real stuff – I hear you, maybe mix the water with wheat flour? Ok, we can even add salt, happy? I'm loving the detail, you guys are so creative….
The exhibition will be mobile going round the country to symbolize how Kenyan MPs continue to rape the country’s resources by their huge pay packets and still refuse to pay taxes. After the campaign we can just park the monument outside parliament with a huge ribbon as a gift. The irony of it is they'll probably fight amongst themselves to see who gets to keep it, their greed knows no bounds.
Maybe this is just a lame gimmick, so if you’ve got any insane ideas to shame these MPs please share.
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Overseas Roundup
» Kenya Cricket As mentioned in the last post, Kenyan opening batsmen Seren Waters has been rewarded for his Consistency with the Surrey Second XI this season receiving an emerging players contract with Surrey.
Mohammed Sheikh will resume his season this weekend playing First Grade in South Australia for the Payneham Duke's Cricket Club. It has been a while since we heard from Sheikh but his statistics for the past 2 seasons make for good reading.
2008/2009
202 runs @ 18.36 with a highest score of 67.
25 wickets at a fantastic average of 14.8 with best figures of 7/47.
20/20 Stats
140 runs @ 35 with a highest score of 63 not out.
6 wickets @ 21.5 with a best of 3/23.
2007/2008
298 runs @ 29.8 with a highest score of 129.
40 wickets at an average of just 12 with a best of 6/88.
20/20
Sheikh's 2009/10 season with Payneham gets underway on the 10th October.
Steve Tikolo has played a handy role in Southern Rocks match Verse Mashonaland Eagles in Zimbabwe's new look Logan Cup taking 2/59 and 3/23 with the ball. He made 11 in the first innings and was 38 not out at last report in the 2nd Innings with Southern Rocks chasing an improbable 459 for victory.
Finally, Amit Bhudia playing in London has been in sensational form for West Harrow Cricket Club with recent scores of 48*, 58*, 111* before finally being dismissed for 67 in his most recent match leaving his average at a healthy 284.00 admittedly with the help of three not outs.
Earlier in the season Amit had been playing for the Nelson Cricket Club where his scores were just as impressive: 62, 103 ,53 ,1 , 58, 0 , 86, 64 and 51. Very impressive figures from Amit Bhudia.Become a fan of Kenya Cricket.com on facebook: [www.facebook.com]
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