tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83401339476397338372011-03-20T17:42:52.838-07:00Technology and life have a chicken and egg relationship. Life derives a new meaning from technology, while the living strive to improve technology so that life flourishes safely and healthily... Do indulge awhile: words have an impact!Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.comBlogger552125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-73014872025714091502011-02-26T13:45:00.000-08:002011-02-28T09:43:46.180-08:00

Some people have a warped sense of charity and charitable giving, unlike Robin Hood! The latter, at least gave to the poor masses from the pockets of the snobbish wealthy. Do not get me wrong; there is nothing wrong with getting or being rich - honestly, it's just how you get there that really matters to me. Take for example, Nigeria, where there are just about three major telecommunication -

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-7031450259982994812011-01-07T13:48:00.000-08:002011-01-12T19:17:26.212-08:00

Do you remember the dodo? If you do, that would be very interesting because only an artist's rendition is available worldwide. Of course you may recall that it was - yes, it is now extinct - incapable of flight. Like the ostrich, the dodo was not a high flyer. Unlike the dodo, the ostrich hides its head in the sand when frightened - rather than running away. Both could not fly because of their

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-59144970850775122382010-12-05T14:21:00.000-08:002010-12-05T14:21:59.838-08:00

(Congress is like diapers; it should be changed regularly as it gets full of the same thing. ~ seen on a bumper sticker) - I just saw that in my iGoogle page. Yeah. Politics is really a dirty business and not just a game. Why is democracy such a burden all over the world? Mind you, in this discussion today, democracy should not be mixed up with capitalism because the former can survive under

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-16649935108967473492010-09-14T21:56:00.000-07:002010-09-14T21:56:53.144-07:00

Google Instant is out. What's so significant about that? Plenty, in my humble opinion. Let me give an example. Some search engine optimization (SEO) tricks usually include writing a glowing snippet or article about a particular product or website and finding enough collaborator websites or blogs to do the same or simply to literally take over the subject matter of the original website. And,

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-6130642553261800652010-08-11T14:36:00.000-07:002010-08-11T14:52:22.097-07:00

This post is more than a rant. It is a close look at the core of so-called democratic pretensions in the developing world. Free and fair elections has always been a dream everywhere - yes, the results are usually skewed in such a way that a winner must emerge. Whether you call it 'electoral college' or 'consensus' candidate system or not, a yet-unknown winner among the two or more political

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-78523247872146592102010-06-22T21:10:00.000-07:002010-06-22T21:10:02.065-07:00

Let me just say that telecommunications companies are wonderful for the variety of services and facilities they offer for meaningful modern living. Probably the most visible example currently is the history of telephony from the telegraph machine to the general release of GoogleVoice with all its exciting benefits and features - even though it is for North American residents only just now.

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-32665467251505639742010-06-11T12:49:00.000-07:002010-06-11T16:01:58.878-07:00

You may have noticed that I have not posted for quite some time. Ho-hum! Blame it on boring Google and Blogger for their convoluted terms of service that can just pick a blog, seemingly randomly, block access to the owner, and claim to be investigating his/her latest travesty: SPAM! Frankly, if someone lands on my blog and reports it as 'spam', I think that the fellow must be an idiot in the 

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-66888858253137702832010-05-09T12:47:00.000-07:002011-01-12T18:53:21.383-08:00

As you may already know, Nigeria's ex-President UMYA is dead and buried and the country is in mourning until next weekend. That cloak and dagger national chapter has closed, mercifully, as the former Acting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has now become the substantive President GEJ - from grass to grace and GCON to GCFR without winning a single election! Now, that's a wonderful dividend of

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-77949991544634075292010-04-11T13:49:00.000-07:002010-04-11T13:49:03.543-07:00

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; Good, Better, and Best in reverse; Yahoo! Mail, Google Mail, and Windows Live Mail, not necessarily in that order.  You probably guessed it by now: I use three e-mail accounts regularly and recently had the opportunity to rate them by chance. I received a commercial credit from a supplier, who requested to see a copy of the invoice and the receipt so that the

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-71801789811863299222010-04-03T09:34:00.000-07:002010-04-03T09:34:07.759-07:00

Leadership is the bedrock of all audacious dreams to reach national prominence. So, it is no surprise that the post of the President is such a lofty height in the dreams of any can-do child. It can also be quite flush with eye-popping disillusionment whenever a new president fails to deliver on electioneering campaign promises. Sometimes the let down can be so severe on most people that they

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-51542854742856489482010-03-20T03:35:00.000-07:002010-03-20T03:35:42.529-07:00

Yahoo has kept me out of my e-mail inbox for about two weeks now. Can you imagine that kind of dilemma? Nothing works: password, bookmarks, or even password! The last time that happened, I had requested some news updates from the White House website - yeah, crazy me had to be checked out, I guess. Now, the pertinent question is, who is monitoring me today and when exactly will I regain control

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-66000345521599496232010-03-18T01:27:00.000-07:002010-03-20T13:07:42.046-07:00

Do you remember the classic nursery rhyme about the emperor who was conned by two thieving tailors into believing he was wearing the finest robes in the land, while in reality he was actually as stark naked as a jaybird? Well, after the last installment of the unfolding Nigerian political debacle, nothing much has come to light again so far - save that some have toyed with the idea of either

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-76046190564027003892010-02-26T05:15:00.000-08:002010-03-03T23:13:28.025-08:00

Can a token appointee become the substantive boss? Even in the classic American equal opportunity job placement creations saga....This post is a continuation of this other one. So now the Nigerian president - whoever "s/he" is right now - is back home as surreptitiously as he went away abroad for three calendar months and a half-week. Whoopee.....! There are even more questions now. For example

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-52943604694254435512010-02-23T05:27:00.000-08:002010-02-23T06:06:22.908-08:00

No, don't get mad, get even. That may be the modern version of the classic golden rule - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - but anger is not the type of madness that this post is all about. Why are some rulers mad, crazy, oppressive, in spite of the overriding benefits of majority leadership under democracy, which Nigeria's legendary Afrobeat originator Fela Anikulapo Kuti once described

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-46467675533318914432010-01-16T09:12:00.000-08:002010-03-02T01:46:34.620-08:00

I love that word 'prosperous': it is so prophetic that it means whatever you want it to connote or refer to. So, may you and yours prosper in 2010. Many are predicting 2010 shall be better than 2009. It just has to be, by the special grace of God. Amen. Why am I not dredging 2009 for good things? Well, for one thing, a mysterious explosion in my kitchen gutted the place on Tuesday, 29th of

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-26004961881950490052009-12-16T13:03:00.000-08:002009-12-18T11:19:26.607-08:00

You must agree that, even if you love playing with numbers, there comes a time when you'd rather just grab your computer or a calculator and give your brain a good rest. I was wondering a few days ago, while juggling figures related to the prices of new technology that I wanted to buy, why I should buy an exorbitant smartphone instead of a valued-packed netbook. The smartphone in question cost

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-43620923401570779592009-12-13T07:32:00.000-08:002009-12-17T15:00:08.012-08:00

Michaele and Tareq Salahi, Virginia wine boffins now controversial politicos. Quite a transformation, IMHO. Without much further ado, I have been waiting to ask a question. What exactly is an invitation to dinner? An invitation, according to Webster's dictionary, is a courteous request to be somewhere or to do something, extended by somebody with the authority of a host. The Salahis are

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-71452168975593382552009-12-12T13:49:00.000-08:002009-12-17T11:58:00.606-08:00

Hollywood marriages usually do not work out well for long. That's a given. But then why is that the case, with a few exceptions? Those that survive for decades are normally infused with tolerance, patience, understanding, forgiveness, and humility. Even in the midst of the heady feeling that great success and freshly minted cash, enough to fill a large room, can give any human being, Tiger

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-59499622633539777562009-11-24T20:36:00.000-08:002009-11-25T12:07:05.830-08:00

Yes, I think that I am beginning to develop a liking for US President Obama. I mean, you cannot deny that he has genuine commonsense and the rare audacity to dream his hopes into reality. Not to mention Mrs. Obama's great dating advice to young women of today! She wisely counseled them, according to a, I think, SKY cable news report earlier this month or so, to check out beforehand how their

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-31323753863186568082009-11-14T13:59:00.000-08:002009-11-14T13:59:16.367-08:00

Yes, it is significantly official: there are bucketfuls of water waiting to be tapped on the lunar surface. Decades from now, what stunning vistas will we see before us in either direction in space? Would we be hostile to lunar life forms and aborigines, unlike the ancient colonialists displayed towards Africans during the slave trade? Who will be the next Thomas Jefferson in spirit, to declare

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-89395520545904129782009-11-14T03:04:00.000-08:002009-11-14T16:32:39.578-08:00

Perhaps, it is about time to cool off all this online censorship of blogs and their content by both advertisers and blogging platform providers - like Google, ...especially. Prime time television is now littered with programs that can be described as more loose tongued than circumspect. Check this out - More Than Ever, You Can Say That on Television. So, why the heat online, where children

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-38200315339829980202009-11-08T23:32:00.000-08:002009-11-08T23:32:01.043-08:00

It did not work for me. I am talking frankly about my attempt to use a Blogger jump break on one of my longer posts on a custom domain. Actually, the jump break was inserted at the point of my blinking cursor, as predicted by the attached instructions. However, there was no "Read more" link - the post was just simply truncated at the insertion point after publication. So, how can this filed

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-74016137073226942222009-11-06T22:56:00.000-08:002009-11-06T23:38:51.097-08:00

Life really is not smooth for me right now and I am somewhat fed up with blogging. Why? Well, apart from losing my Google blog ranking, from zip to zero? My old laptop battery needs to be replaced and I also need to get the second travel charger to support the main one, I need a new laptop, I need a reliable and cost effective means of getting steady electric power supply.... Quite a tall order

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-25397440401337136332009-11-03T03:11:00.000-08:002009-11-03T03:11:16.070-08:00

What do you think? Is it a change for the better? I just had to opt for a blog template that would, at least, show my writing in full, sans - without - all the clutter on the sidebar that usually slowed down the loading of the blog. Do you like it? If I am going to lose pagerank for whatever reason, at least my readers should be able to see why or whatever... Yes, as you can see, one of the two

Okonkwo O. Awaokonkwookujiawa@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340133947639733837.post-49030362799460612662009-10-29T15:41:00.001-07:002009-11-07T11:32:07.748-08:00

I have just read that the US Senate has concurred with the US House of Reps and passed the expanded hate crimes legislation - ready for executive assent without dissent, in the interest of political correctness. Obama keeps his word on hate crimes bill, Sodom and Gomorrah? No, hardly! I think that the bill may not have gone far enough. Now that some so bent will no longer be able to say '

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