tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80743452011-11-28T02:33:16.400+03:00Here's my long overdue attempt at maintaining a virtual window into the life and times of one Chris Kiagiri, currently at Google. Yes, it is also a recognition that working at the "home of Blogger" implicitly demands that i have a blog. :)Chris Kiagirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17306730305325698194noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8074345.post-5793467283629398802011-04-05T12:53:00.000+03:002011-04-05T12:53:50.710+03:00

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I’ve just made the move from Blogger to WordPress, which may come as a surprise to those of you who know where I work. However, WordPress had an available domain for my new blog (Here I Am To Worship) that Blogger - due to its enormous popularity - did not.This blog will continue at Wordpress under the same name i.e. http://talischris.wordpress.com See you on the other side.

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Some of you might know that my grandmother (and lone surviving grandparent) was diagnosed with early stage dementia last year. This morning we received word from my uncle that her condition is deteriorating. When my sister called her this morning to check on her, it took her a few minutes to recognize her name. She is also having trouble with her digestive system.Grandma has lived by herself in

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I would like to thank those of you who have gently nudged me back into blogging - Rosy for the occasional virtual shoulder tap, Paul for your consistent posts that remind me I should be doing the same, and Salome for recently encouraging me and getting me over the hump, so to speak.So today I resume my blogging with a stream of parallel posts - one retroactive and one current - in order to

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There are only two people in my life that have ever become so endeared to me to the point of gaining sibling status, so to speak. Eva Nyanjau is my big sis who anchored my high school years, and was tragically killed in the US embassy bomb blast on 7th August, 1998 in Nairobi. That was perhaps the saddest day of my life thus far, and after 18 years of living in Kenya, I flew out to the US on the

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Those of you who know me well know that I have always been a numbers guy. So it should come as no surprise that during my lengthy sojourn in the US, I wound up setting a "target" date for when I would like to return to Kenya. I left home in August 1998 to pursue further studies with the stated goal of returning "when it made sense." Following a bachelor's and master's degree, I had student loans

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What are the essentials of the Christian faith? Listening to Alistair Begg on the 4th of July, he gave an outline that I found concise and useful:the authority of the Biblethe centrality of the crossthe necessity of second birththe priority of holiness in livingthe reality of GraceHopefully, I'll be able to spend some time expounding on these in the near future.

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Today I got to meet a legend - quite literally. One of the perks of working at Google is being able to meet well-known figures from various spheres of life on a regular basis.John Legend came and did a unique gig just for Google employees, highlighted by an impromptu one-time-only duet with one of my co-workers, which you can see here.

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During my stay in Florida, I had the great privilege of getting to know Lance Corporal Kevin Waruinge, a member of our small tightly-knit group of Kenyan students. Kevin had already served one tour of duty in Iraq in 2003 before enrolling in college the same semester that I enrolled in seminary. As it turned out, my final semester was his final one too; I graduated and moved back to California,

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Some of you heard about our recent launch of Google Earth (if you haven't, stop reading this and go check it out).However, many of you may have missed our near-simultaneous launch of Google Moon - http://moon.google.com/ - and no, it's not an April Fool's joke, although if you zoom in too close ...

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June 28th, 2005 was a terribly sad day for me, as I received the news of the passing away of a man that I consider a hero and a father-figure to me as a Starehe Old Boy. Dr. Griffin - more affectionately referred to as "Boss" - succumbed to colon cancer after roughly one and a half years of poor health. He was 72.As the founder and director of my high school, Starehe Boys' Centre, he is largely

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