So today, via Facebook, I land on a great Andriod app! PesaDroid! Well, all it does is give you a nice view of all your M-Pesa transactions, taking data form the messages on the phone. I have no doubt that the developers of the app worked quite hard on it and it is a wonderful app but my God, their website! Pesadroid.com is not a site to visit. It has put a new benchmark on just how crappy a site can be. I mean, these guys should have just stuck to giving people the android market link coz at least there, they can leverage the look of the marketplace. Their one page site is just something that should be taken off the net! Like immediately! Trust me, if I had seen their site before installing the app, I would not have installed it coz their site is just a joke!

Yeah, I can tell you for a fact that the Kenya twitter-verse, and blog-verse, and any other ‘verse’ that this country may have is all buzzing about the ICC and the cases that have been recently been confirmed on some powerful local politicians but frankly speaking, that news is not on my mind right now. MEGAUPLOAD HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN! This is just after a victorious ‘sites black out’ petition against SOPA and PIPA in the states. Clearly, I think the thing to take home from this is in as much as the initial battle for protecting a free internet may have been won, the war is nowhere near over!

I know we are all aware of the phrase ‘there’s an app for that’ with regard to the Apple Store and their gazillion apps. Well, I suppose that the same phrase can be used to refer to the open source world. Nowadays, you do not need to look too far to get an open source application that will do just about anything you want, from 3D animation with Blender to content management with DotNetNuke based on proprietary software.  Anyhow, here is how to do something quite simple and useful with a powerful video editing and converting software known as Avidemux.

A quick Wikipedia search for Old School describes this genre of music as the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music, with a period dated from around 1979 to 1984. Although, the same article does continue to state that most music stations dubbed ‘Old School radio’ play music up to the mid-90s.

Can I then define Local Old School as some of our earliest commercially recorded music – taking a cue from Wikipedia’s definition of the term? Hope so.