Standing at the Edge of the Abyss

Like lemmings inexorably following the rest of their herd over the edge of a cliff, Kenyan banks have decided that they want some of the toxic loan action that their western counterparts have been enjoying. According to Business Daily Africa, a number of banks are aiming to increase the size of their loan books as [...]

Freeware of the Week! [Dia]

If you’ve ever had to plan a complicated for, you may have laid out the necessary processes in the form of a flow diagram. The go-to program in this instance would be Microsoft Visio, but it seems excessive to pay a hefty chunk of money for a program you may only use a few times [...]

Getting Ready for Conficker’s April Surprise

April fool’s day is going to be an interesting one on the internet this year, because that is the date when Conficker C, the latest version of the worm formerly known as Downadup, goes live. It’s going to launch an as-yet undetermined attack, using a botnet that some estimate has infected up to 12 million [...]

Is the Government Determined to Drive Us to Violent Revolution?

I try to keep this blog free of the profanities that litter my everyday speech, but for this post I am willing to make an exception: I am so pleased that I am not in Kenya right now, because I am fit to cut a bitch. Several bitches, actually. The bitches in question are the [...]

Fraud Forecast to Rise as Times Get Tough

As though they didn’t have enough to worry about, it seems that during the current economic crisis business owners have also need to be worrying about the enemy within: fraud, where employees steal from their bosses. It shouldn’t be all that surprising: when people are nervous and worry that their next payslip may be their [...]