FROM the moment I started typing stuff my future was secured. And I wasn’t satisfied having to do this on a typewriter because I knew about the computer, so I fought my way to using one whenever the opportunity presented itself. At University I remember having an argument with a colleague over the future of the…
THE advent of mobile phones and personal phone use and computing has made us forget one serious element of etiquette: taking messages. I called up a newsroom last week to speak with a journalist and was rudely hit with this realisation. Even the phone operator, who must have been the receptionist aka Front-Desk-Operator-or-something, seemed unwilling…
TODAY I found myself engrossed in a highly interesting conversation with a person whose acquaintance I have just made and hope to keep, and whose mind kept knocking into mine like we were on a mental dodgem floor. One major intellectual collision I was even more happy about was to do with how insipid our…
THERE was a concept way back when we were children that sounded something like mobile farming, that involved either nomadism or the cultivation of crops in a different part of a defined area at different times. Nomadic farming needs no explanation. The cultivation of crops, on the other hand, could be a little confusing; what…
As I type this, most people have already broken off for the end-of-year holidays. Having kept our ears to the ground all year, here is a list of the top 10 people we feel stood out in Uganda’s ICT “department”. 1. Michael Niyitegeka Here is the short version of Michael’s contribution to the ICT Sector…
I WAS pleased to be part of a discussion recently along these lines and was pleasantly surprised to find nodding heads on the other side of the table. We ordinary people in Uganda spend a lot of time believing our politicians to be useless, lazy and extremely unfocussed when it comes to prioritising what is…
Facebook home:My thoughts (Part II)
April 30, 2013
Facebook Home: My thoughts (Part I)
April 22, 2013
Yes, Uganda is now online
April 16, 2013
Think about this: Why are you still writing email sign-offs?
April 11, 2013
Google has still not learnt their lesson: Google glass to be manufactured in the USA
March 28, 2013
skaheru says:
I certainly remember UGO and Boaz and will continue throwing kudos...
godlike says:
It better support time travel.
William RAHI says:
I am one of the (rather silent) 28% as well
Mufutau Mcintyre says:
I have definitely picked up something new from right here.Looking forward...
Albert Mucunguzi says:
:) You know some settings are predefined in the system -...
