OneCare Live

Hi,

I am not sure that anybody will read, let alone respond to this. I'm a proud user of the ugraded product which you offered recently for betra trialists. I have two grouses:

1. Why do still get a conflict between my resident windows firewall and the OneCare firewall. I find the prompting very nagging....sort spywarish and I HATE it. Please fix this.

2. My system is configured by default to detect and download updates; I use genuine Windows XP and Office 2003. When I get the orange colour on OneCare and click on "contact windows update", the browser shows a system denial error. Why take me there in the first place. I LOVE green and don't wish to be nagged by software. That's why I saved for and bought GENUINE stuff....this is not easy iof you live where I live.

Thanks for a good product nonetheless.

Asking Microsoft

Hi,

I am not sure that anybody will read, let alone respond to this. I'm a proud user of the ugraded product which you offered recently for betra trialists. I have two grouses:

1. Why do still get a conflict between my resident windows firewall and the OneCare firewall. I find the prompting very nagging....sort spywarish and I HATE it. Please fix this.

2. My system is configured by default to detect and download updates; I use genuine Windows XP and Office 2003. When I get the orange colour on OneCare and click on "contact windows update", the browser shows a system denial error. Why take me there in the first place. I LOVE green and don't wish to be nagged by software. That's why I saved for and bought GENUINE stuff....this is not easy if you live where I live.

Thanks for a good product nonetheless.

Calling on Google Scholar/ books

I regularly use Google Scholar and Google Books search services as every other ardent Googler does. Recently I have also formed a habit of sneaking on book chapters and contents on topical issues of interest to my reserach. I have spent considerable time constructing my citation/ reference libraries using the superpowerful EndNote version 9. However, I am sad. Though I appreciate the digital library that Google has built and the volume of info available to me for free I would love to have a way to add a book chapter, journal article and especially with the Google powered Crossref, I want to seamlessly export citations to my EndNote. Can somebody somewhere with the necessary fluency in these tools translate my challenge? Just look at Scirus and see the ability to export citations. I mean we researchers require such a service within the power of Google. Otherwise thank you very much Google for the good effort.

Return of Koitalel Artefacts

Exactly a decade earlier, I asked for the repartriation of the artefacts taken away by the murderous British marcenaries when they killed the legendary Nandi Orkoiyot in cold blood. Then, some Nandi leaders opposed the call. A coterie of their side-kicks went on to castigate me and wrote unflattering comments about my write-ups which were carried in the leading publications including the Weekly Review, the Daily Nation, the East African Standard and the Kenya Times. Yesterday, the artefacts reached Nandi Hills. I'm at peace, even though nobody will dare credit the heat that led up to their return to my humble propositions. God bless Nandi

I mourn with the nation

Kenya, I mourn with you from here in China for the merciless and unhindered way in which death has snatched from amongst us the brilliant and galant leaders who perished in that ghastly crash in NEP. My heart bleeds with the nation, I mourn....."Where oh death is thy power, where is thy sting?"..... Thank God for while we were yet helpless, Christ died for us, to disarm death. Did any of those souls ever get to put their lives right with God?

To Energise our Universities, Invest in Research

Jan Mutai is a believer in universities as engines of development. To those who don't know him, no hard feelings. His sister, Chelagat Mutai, derisively called Seroney's (no relation to the author) girl is an astute politician who has sadly faded from the political landscape. Nonetheless Jan, who head the megalarge Kenya Posts and Telecommunications, is the Secretary of the Addis-Ababa based Africa Telecoms Union. He doubles as the Chairman of Council at Western University of Science and Technology, WEUCO. In recognition of the role played by research to energise development in the fast developing and developed world, Jan proposed that universities act as incubators of technology. Combine this with the recent study that rated Kenyan universities poorly and you understand why Mr. Mutai's proposal should be taken more seriously. Anybody who has time to peer through peer reviewed journals in the variety of research areas must have noticed the apparent lack of publications emerging from Kenyan universities.

Part of the reason for this is the lack of deliberate investment by government on research. The universities in China and Japan as well as the USA and Europe are all affiliated one way or another to some companies with interest in the research goings-on. Once a thesis, dissertation or peer-reviewed paper is published, the companies snap-up the research and buy off the rights to begin pilot and industrial simulations. Our universities have heaps of thesis gathering dust perjoratively. While biotechnology is the buzzword at the moment, Kenya with its rich endowment of natural resources is languishing in want.

There is need to invest in research infrastructure, reference resources and personnel training over and above payment of basic salaries of those university dons whose impact in the economy is yet to be felt. By the way, do our universities have subscriptions to the online research publihers like Elsevier, Wiley Science, Taylor and Francis, Blackwell, American Chemical Society and others?

For this is probably where government needs to invest more.