The King and Abrastisio

Comparison of electricity tariffs in other countries

2010-07-28T23:26:00-07:00

The following table shows the price of electricity per Kilowatt Hour across different countries. This should serve as a quick reference to what other guys like us pay in these countries.

Country	$/KwH	N/KwH
Kingdom of Tonga	0.4570	68.55
Denmark	0.4289	64.34
Italy	0.3723	55.85
Netherlands	0.3470	52.05
Germany	0.3066	45.99
Philippines	0.2880	43.20
Sweden	0.2734	41.01
Ireland	0.2389	35.84
Spain	0.1950	29.25
France	0.1925	28.88
UK	0.1859	27.89
Croatia	0.1755	26.33
Singapore	0.1734	26.01
Portugal	0.1639	24.59
Nigeria (Proposed)	0.1467	22.00
Hong Kong	0.1230	18.45
Iceland	0.1161	17.42
Belgium	0.1143	17.15
Perú	0.1044	15.66
South Africa	0.1015	15.23
USA	0.0928	13.92
Malaysia	0.0742	11.13
Australia	0.0711	10.67
Finland	0.0695	10.43
Canada	0.0618	9.27
Nigeria (Currently)	0.0467	7.00

^{.This data is for comparison only. The validity of the data is not guaranteed.}
^{Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing}

Coldfusion stores Data source definitions here

2010-06-09T11:09:00-07:00

Coldfusion server reinstallation or cloning is a common scenario however if your server is the type with multiple data sources, recreating those DSNs could be hell on earth - especially when you have a world cup match to watch.

All you need do is back-up of CFROOT\runtime\bin\neo-datasources.xml. This XML file is where CF stores the data source settings for all DSNs. Mind you, the passwords are encrypted.

Questions for Brian Greene

2010-05-26T12:09:00-07:00

I recently bought the Elegant Universe, a great book by Brian Greene. He tried his very best to distil String Theory and other mad cap science into what an average Joe could understand. I understand (well, I think I do) what he wrote but I have more questions than answers so I did what should be the right thing, I wrote him an email:

Dear Brian,

I recently read your book, The Elegant Universe and I must say, with the few things I learned, even if they dont really resonate with me, I can spend a dinner with a bunch of physicists without falling asleep from boredom. However, I would be happy if I could get answers to some nagging questions:

Based on the big bang theory, if the universe started from the big bang about 15billion years ago, and has been expanding since (with some theories about its contraction happening after, but then both of us would have been long gone, it is not an event that I look forward to), what was the state of the universe a year before the big bang? Or a billion before then? Where did all those matter come from?
If for about 300 years, the classical physicists felt they were right and then Einstein blew them off and then string theory is stringing Einstein up, do you think String theory could hold up forever?
Is it possible that there could be a form of life inside the sub particles?
Is it possible that the components of the whole universe are like sub particles? May be we are the makeup of a giant body!

I would love your take on those questions.

Best regards,

Digging Deep

2010-04-12T03:15:00-07:00

The world is currently faced with energy challenges: oil reserves are being depleted at an unprecedented rate and depending on which statistic you use, we could run out of gas (literally) within the next 100 years. Renewable sources are not enough or difficult to harness. Nuclear power is extremely tricky to play with and the repercussions of misuse can last for generations. Cold fusion is currently the stuff of science fiction. We are living on borrowed times.

Apart from major hydroelectric schemes (Itaipu, Three Gorges, Aswan, Hoover, etc.) most of electricity consumed are made from turbines. Water is heated to super critical temperature and pressurized. The resultant steam is used to drive big turbines that produce electricity for use by industry and consumers. So the biggest need for a power generation system is a sustainable heat source. Currently controlled nuclear reaction, burning of gas and other fossil fuels, burning of coal, etc. produce the required heat.

The other major challenge posed by power generation has been the dangerous environmental after taste. The sourcing of the required input (oil, coal) and the running of these stations (nuclear waste, carbon dioxide, acid rain) have exposed everyone in the world to an impending climate disaster. So there is also a need to balance out these effects by looking for green energy sources. That is where we ran into a brick wall. There are no green and realistic sources of energy. Solar panels are very expensive and the efficiency is still at the very low levels. Cold fusion is still a technical mirage. Harnessing the ocean waves have been disappointing.

But what about digging deep?

Basic geography shows that the deeper you dig into the earth the hotter is becomes (and the more pressure too). Some measure it as .7 degree centigrade per every mile journeyed downward. The idea is this, what if we dig deep enough to reach a very high temperature and instead of using water, we could create some synthetic fluid with specialized features such as low boiling point whose vapor has the required pressure characteristics. All we need do is pump such fluid into the ground, get it heated up and it comes back up as highly pressurized gas which can be used to drive turbines for electricity production. At least there is a never ending supply of heat.

It sounds simplistic albeit it is probably packed with enough complexity to make scientists think rocket science is junior level arithmetics. However, the whole idea is to look inward to the unending (basically) power stored in the earth crust. If this can be achieved, the concept of energy generation would change forever. Cheap energy should put 100% electric vehicles on the road and if technology comes to the rescue, we could even have batteries that could charge fully in 5 minutes.

Behavioral finance and the science of voodoo

2010-03-27T02:35:00-07:00

I just had some argument with a PhD researcher about the value of behavioral models over the up-till-now traditional financial modeling. You see, behavioral finance is a growing field of financial science and came into prominence after the last catastrophic implosion of the global financial market. Obviously some greedy folks went berserk and all the fancy market models developed to understand them were obviously on vacation (read Fama, French, Sharpe, Markowitz, Merton Miller and a bunch of others. I can't even imagine that some people actually got a Nobel for this type of rubbish. In a world where Obama can get a Nobel for Peace in anticipation of peace, anything can happen!).

From the behavioral finance people's point of view, financial and capital models are crap and can't model how the financial world will behave as it is based on what is called the rational model (players will behave according to expectation) but can't understand the primordial human instincts (greed, fear, ego, etc.) which ultimately always upturn things.

This is actual bone of contention. We both agreed that the current models are capital BS but I believe that the financial and capital behavior can be modeled. What we don't have now is enough attributes to put into the model to factor things in. Another thing is to redefine what a rational attribute is. Purchasing an equity based on PE ratio is a rational behavior but it doesn't even rank as much as buying because of fear! Or why would the experts spend so much time wondering that the Weekend Effect is all about?

This is what luxury good purveyors have known for centuries, people don't buy because a purchase makes sense, they buy for all manners of reasons and that is what we modeler need to figure out.

Can fear be modeled? Yeah! Same for herd behavior, for greed, for revenge, etc. What I dont know is if a smart dude is going to figure it out in a year, decade or century but I can put my bet on 2 decades out there. What do you think we are going to use all those powerful computers to do? Turn them into Precogs while the world reenact Minority Report. So between now and then, I will advice my fancy research to go find another job; behavioral finance career is about to hit a dead end.

The economy of enforcement

2010-03-20T04:23:00-07:00

Lagos is a mad place. Chaos incorporated. Although that isn't enough to make me do the Andrew Method (run away) . Apart from security and electricity, traffic is the biggest problem we have. It takes X number of hours to move from point A to B. I know that LASTMA was created to solve this problem but they are more interested in shafting drivers than resolving the road logjam. But that is a story for another day or symposium like Abami Eda would say.

Another tangent to this post is that all tiers of government are broke, my dear Lagos inclusive. Fashola is rolling out tax laws faster than Usain Bolt could complete a 100m dash. That itself hasn’t worked well.

Talking about the traffic palaver, even though we have bad roads, 80% (don’t ask for the source of data!) of the gridlock is caused by bad drivers: Danfo drivers picking passengers; vehicles moving against traffic; impatient drivers not giving way at junctions, etc.

It came to me that government could augment its income with loads of law breakers roaming the street. I know LASTMA has gotten away with not doing much because government wasn’t expecting much from them. But say LASTMA has a target of catching 5,000 offenders a day with average fine of 10,000. That is some 50M per day and almost a billion in one month. Well, maybe that is an exaggeration but come on, if LASTMA can generate enough fines to pay for its officers, what is wrong with that? When people know that the cost of breaking a traffic offence is so much, they start behaving and then traffic is better and ultimately there is going to be need for fewer LASTMA officers.

Same crooked (smile) idea could be applied to building codes (those converted shops cause more evils that you can imagine) and to companies messing up the environment. Think of the glee of fining offices that block drainages with N100K or the premises get locked down. When it becomes so expensive to break the law, the government can spend less money unblocking those drainages.

And hopefully, they would have more money to pave the road and a smooth road makes it easier to escape LASTMA in case I get caught. Now, I think you get the point.

Will the database move into the cloud?

2010-01-13T06:21:00-07:00

In 1999 when senior vice president Marc Benioff left Oracle to create Salesforce.com, many thought he was headed for a cliff at full steam but 10 years down the line, software as a service (SaaS) is a matured business model. Online productivity applications have joined the fray and are maturing at a brisk pace (Say Google Docs, Zoho).

In our modern enterprise, the database is a corner of most of the software architecture and I ask myself, will the database move into the cloud too? Will I be able to implement applications and point it to a database somewhere unknown?

The benefits are obvious – zero hardware configurations, zero backups (hey, I could spend a million dollars for that!), titanium grade security protection, etc. But should things fail, I have loss of data staring me in the face. With that I could get a jail time or be bankrupt depending on what data is missing.

These are interesting times.

Synch your Outlook Contacts with Facebook

2009-12-29T01:32:00-07:00

Just like every other person, almost all my phone contacts are on Facebook, with constantly changing profiles. However, keeping track of who has changed picture or who has a new number is hell. Obviously, the dudes at Developing Trends shared my pain. So they came up with Fonebook, a nifty application that synchronizes your Microsoft Outlook contacts with their Facebook profiles. One caveat though, it doesn’t synchronize numbers and emails as it is against Facebook security policy.

You can download it from this link.

Blackberry is hurting Nokia in Nigeria

2009-10-15T08:25:00-07:00

Nokia is definitely the largest maker of any type of phone in the world, from the penny pinching Nokia 1100 to the super sexy N900, the mainframe of smartphones. While market penetration is good with the cheaper phones, the more expensive smartphones offer more profit margins.

Look at it this way, in Nigeria the cheapest of Nokia phones go for about N3,900 ($26) retail price from which Nokia, the distributor and retailers must have eke out their profit. I can only imagine how much each can get out of that phone: It is probably a game of numbers. The bread and butter is from the more expensive phones. Analysts have opined that Nokia makes as much as 25% margin on the more expensive phones. Generally profit margins on smart phones that can play movies and send e-mails can be 10 percentage points higher than standard devices. [More]

Adieu Papi, Grand Papi

2009-09-28T14:00:00-07:00

I have always known that one day I would end up fatherless but just never thought about it until it happened today. September 28, 2009 will be a day I will never forget, just like other important dates.

My father died.

Mustapha Adedapo Olowe was a dreamer. He could crank up ideas faster than you could digest them (I got that from him). He was hardworking and friendly (I got the hardworking part from him too). He was hardly ever sick. But then, like the way some economist said, on the long run we would all be dead.

So today was his own day. He's left behind kids who will never forget him. And also grand kids, who would probably never stop hearing stories about him.

May his soul rest him peace.

Agini Malaika

Why can't I swap the OS in my phone for another one?

2009-08-20T00:59:00-07:00

That has been the question running on my mind for so long. I use a HP desktop at work, currently running Windows XP SP2. But I know that, if I want, Linux could be made to run on it with minimal efforts (which involve scouting for drivers). At home, I run around with a Pavilion DV2000 that came with a Vista but I kicked that out and ran XP SP3 for about 5 months before laying my hands on Windows 7 Ultimate evaluation version(which is as sexy as it gets). [More]

CF9 in Beta

2009-07-15T23:41:00-07:00

Adobe has announced the availability of Coldfusion 9 Beta product. With so many exciting features, I am definitely hooked up to another 2 years of pounding out CF codes (even though it seems the time to stop is just around the horizon). CF9 is also coming with a new Coldfusion Builder.

For those who don’t know, Coldfusion is the sliced bread of programming languages.

Windpower to the rescue

2008-06-28T20:02:00-07:00

Energy crisis has never been worse in Nigeria than now. power stations are comatose, the government is reversing itself in all possible directions and no one knows what is going to happen the next minute.

Earlier in the administration of Bola Tinubu of Lagos State, he pioneered the concept of independent power stations but because these depended on gas from NNPC, it was easy for the laudable project to get sabotaged by the Obasanjo lead government. Also, other power stations built by the Federal Government have met tragic fates from gas supplies.

However, hope is around the corner. Recent technological advances in wind powered turbines have made the cost of construction of such wind farms comparable to what it cost to build a similar gas powered station. A recent survey by Business Week magazines puts the cost of a 150MW at roughly $225 million. So it means if the Lagos State Government could raise $675 million, say from the capital market, it would be able to build a 450MW power station to run the state, free from the shackles of NNPC.

Create a Replica Table based on another Table Schema

2008-06-13T05:46:00-07:00

A quick and dirty way to create a table in MS SQL as a replica of another table without having to move data from first table to the second one. Say you want to create Table B based on Table A schema:SELECT TOP 0 * INTO TABLE B FROM TABLE A

The Nigerian Website Traffc Ranking

2008-05-31T12:54:00-07:00

The most popular Nigeria website is Nairaland as declared by Alexa, the number 1 website ranking site on the internet. it is the 14th most popular destination for Nigerian web surfers.

Among the media houses, Punch newspaper website, www.punchng.com came first at number 19 easily beating Sun Newspapers (The King of Tabloids) at 30, Thisday Online at 44 and the Guardian at 46. Guaranty Trust Bank lead the banks' website at number 32, Zenith is second at number 38 with no other bank hitting the top 100 list again.

The investing public has been getting served financial information at Cash Craft (36) Nigerian Securities (55) and Proshare (65). Trophies or no trophies, we all love Arsenal (35) more than ManU (40) (Chelsea fans, where are you?)

To read more about the list, visit Alexa Nigeria internet traffic ranking.

Smart Organizations: The Buck Stops with the Executives

2008-05-22T06:16:00-07:00

In continuation of my analysis of smart organizations, I have since discovered the importance of leadership. The leadership defines the direction the organization goes. Great organizations are known to have great leaders. They define the direction and determine what is important, the culture and the future of their domain.

Until the leadership of an organization knows the benefits of creating an efficient system and work towards it, efforts by the underlings would never amount to anything. Sometimes it is easy to go for strategic meetings (very boring meetings!), create policy documents but until words can be matched with action, nothing comes out of it. [More]

Brilliance versus Intelligence

2008-05-13T08:19:00-07:00

Brilliance is functional intelligence. And I would rather be intelligent that brilliant.

The bionic generation of the future

2008-04-29T11:39:00-07:00

Someone is already talking about implanting Bluetooth devices! Read more from here http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9929881-1.html?tag=cnetfd.mt

What makes a smart organization

2008-04-22T12:04:00-07:00

Of recent, I have been thinking deeply about what makes an organization to be smart. Or deeper still, what defines a smart organization. I am thinking about real life attributes not some fancy buzz words from smart pants consultants.

If someone should ask me, I would say a smart organization is one that reacts quickly to market changes, whose components (resources, employees) are used in the most cost effective manner delivering above average return on investment. So a lot must be expected from each organizational unit. Assets must be deployed in the most cost effective manner and results must be squeezed out. These are just rambling thoughts but one day, I will come around to codify it.

Why should we have smart organizations? My own answer is so simply stupid: It makes employees happy! From my little life experiences, the workers are the first to get stressed up when things don't go smoothly. Like some people I know will say, they willl "Fi eje se!" (use blood to run it!). If things can run faster, better, more efficiently with less input and more time to either party away (Friday night is sacrosanct) and do better things, I should be less stressed up.

Let me swap my phone OS!

2008-04-18T09:18:00-07:00

Going back the computer memory lane, I can state categorically that the success that the PC had in changing the world (the PC really changed the world) is mostly due to the flexibility and interchangeability of its different components. That kudos belongs to the IBM guys who, surmounting all obstacles, brought out the IBM PC and its standards all within 1 calendar year. [More]

Nokia Caller ID Bug

2008-03-09T14:37:00-07:00

This would never happen to a lot of people but if know two guys having almost the same number, your Nokia phone might mix their names up. [More]

December 31 FYE: Implications for the Nigerian banks

2008-01-21T07:14:00-07:00

With the drive of the current administration of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to take the Nigerian financial sector to be at par with international standards, the recent pronouncement for all banks to have the same financial-year-end comes as no surprise. In more sophisticated economies, the financial institutions usually close their books at the end of the fiscal year. With this, regulators, analysts, investors and other gamut of interested parties in between have a clear cut idea of what their economy is doing. [More]

The Start of a New Era

2008-01-18T17:03:00-07:00

Today is my last day at First City Monument Bank Plc. That marks the end of an exciting 2 years of challenging and rewarding work at one of Nigeria's finest banks.

The guys here are simply wonderful to work with. People are nice and they actually greet you and my colleagues are my friends. [More]

Global Africa: Presence or Profitability?

2008-01-03T03:38:00-07:00

Following the ultimatum that Nigerian banks shore up their capital base if they are to remain in business, several banks have indeed gone over board with each one raising capital in excess of $1billion. Their aim in the long run, having been rescued from the shackles of being a bank in a developing nation, is to become a mega bank with global presence. [More]

Friendship or Business: Madness Incorporated

2007-11-19T11:44:00-07:00

Think about this:

If our friendship kills my business, there won't be friendship and I will be dead broke. But if my business kills our friendship, at least there would be some money to console me...

Global Challenges: Students Leaders not Left Out

2007-11-09T05:00:00-07:00

The world is getting increasingly difficult to manage by the world leaders alone. I guess this is the drive of the organizers of the One World One Society conference taking place at the University of East London between 16th and 17th of November 2007. They want to show an international gathering of student leaders how to impact the world.

But what can student leaders really do to combat challenges facing the global society?

ColdFusion 8 and KTML

2007-11-09T04:44:00-07:00

A recent upgrade of a CF7 to CF8 sent my blood temperature past the 100C redline when the editor of a content management system went belly up. The bug is a curious one: CF8 now has some new functions (filedelete, filecopy, filewrite, etc) which are in conflict with functions in the KTML for CF version.

This is a little annoying considering that Adobe has acquired Interakt, the maker of KTML. Only God knows thousands of KTML installation that has gone crazy.

Now, not all versions of KTML have the source code so those hapless victims are in for it. For me, all I did was look for the functions and where they were called and changed the function names.

February 29: How does it feel to be born that day?

2007-08-14T14:10:00-07:00

I have never met anyone born on this date but it must be horrible especially if you are girl because you would never do the 1st birthday. Same for the 5th, 10th, 15th, 18th and (blah!) 21st. By the time you come around to do a proper one, 40th, you are already going down the slope and when 60th comes, you have probably done through 2 tummy tucks, 3 breast augmentations and your grand kids would be wondering if you are silly.

Well, it is a crazy thought.

Investor Delight

2007-07-25T06:58:00-07:00

My long time friend, Ponle Holloway, just released a nifty tool to help those of us who have stock accounts scattered all over the place. It's a website where you can register your stock portfolio and track the performance (or under performance if you are not the lucky type) of your stocks online.

The service is free and it even sends you a daily mail so you might not need to login again unless you want to add or remove entries from your portfolio.

You can give the website a try at www.investordelight.com.

ColdFusion 8 Rocks!

2007-07-21T04:53:00-07:00

ColdFusion 8 rocks and that is all I have been seeing and reading from the community. It seems am the only one left out (Duh!): I have been freaking busy. So busy that the Beta installer has been sitting on my test server and I have not even clicked on it once to install.

Once am through with my current assignments, there would be enough time to unleash the CF Dragon all over the place. I can't wait to try out the new AJAX and PDF features to wow my colleagues and make their .NET codes look like a piece of wet and cold spaghetti.

Is this the way it will all end?

2007-07-13T08:41:00-07:00

The get rich quick scheme is not native to Nigeria. Can we assume that the punishment for gullibility or greed would not skip the Nigerians that have thrown caution to the wind and want to reap where they haven't sown. I don't know and I don't really care that much.

Just reading on BBC about the Ponzi scheme in Kenya and how some people have been cleaned out. Also, Central Bank of Nigeria just released a circular about the danger of the wonder banks but people are still pouring their hard earned money into this bottomless pits. I know some people will get paid but those who won't will be the ones to suffer for this.

You can read the story here.

iPhone can't work in Lagos, duh!

2007-07-13T08:33:00-07:00

Bad news!

The iPhone has been locked to AT&T and won't work on other GSM networks for now. Very annoying move by Apple. Unlocked version won't be available in Europe until fall. What a way to pour water on my enthusiasm.

At last: The iPhone

2007-06-29T13:26:00-07:00

I hate common phones and I don't know why. May be being exclusive gives a little rush (akin to something speed ball throws at you). Having used an E70 for a year and looking for that cool phone that won't be too common, Apple has finally come to the rescue with the sexy iPhone.

The iPhone was launched today with AT&T as an exclusive carrier (in US). By God's grace, I should be able to lay my hands on one of these little wonders and by that, find something I can play with for another year.

Pennywise HYIB: The king of absurdity

2007-05-23T02:27:00-07:00

Just last week, some dudes came to my office to offer the ever enticing money doubling schemes. I don’t think am being fair in calling Pennywise money doubling or S’ogun D’ogoji because man, Pennywise is something else!

This is how it works. You give them a paltry N2,500 for a slot and over a period of 9 weeks, the scheme will pay out a cumulative of N251,390. Effectively, you multiply any amount you put inside by 100 in 9 weeks. Interesting! [More]

Coldfusion Update Function

2007-05-14T09:45:00-07:00

If you ever had gotten stuck with writing insert and update statement for a table with a zillion columns, you can understand my pain.

And applications (most of them) must work with data. Select is cool, in fact, the dudes that crafted the SQL standards even created the almighty shortcut, *, which can select from 1 to a zillion columns. But how do you have a quick work around to update say a table with 150 columns? The truth, there is not shortcut. You have to do the grunt work. [More]

Error Selecting on AD Linked Server Columns

2007-05-11T14:48:00-07:00

Looks like not all columns are born equal on Active Directory linked server on SQL Server.

I have a pretty little view which initially was selecting just four columns (mail, samaccountname,company and displayname) from a linked AD on an SQL Server 2000. Trust me, there was a reason to add more columns to the view. However, my attempt to include all the columns I wanted (valid columns!) was throwing error [More]

Nospetco accounts frozen

2007-04-27T16:25:00-07:00

Or at least, that is the gist I have been hearing since I got holed up in a company retreat of recent. Actually, the pace of office work has been so frenetic the last few weeks that I don't even have time to look at myself in the mirror. Not only are Nospetco accounts frozen by EFCC, I also heard that the cousin schemes: Sefteg, Wealthsolutions, Treasure Lines also got the deep freezer treatment. [More]

9 Coldfusion 8 features to watch out for

2007-04-26T02:35:00-07:00

Coldfusion 8 would soon be out of the door with a big bang. Top on my list are built in AJAX widgets, .NET (and Java!) integration, Microsoft Exchange integration and native image manipulation functions. For more of the other exciting jokers up Adobe's sleeve, check out this website.

Do you ever wonder . . .

2007-04-19T06:15:00-07:00

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Why "abbreviated" is such a long word?

Why doctors call what they do "practice"? [More]

Marriage According to Nairaland

2007-04-19T02:48:00-07:00

I was chatting with one of the few friends I made on Nairaland (before I left) yesterday and she told me she was getting married. Well, getting married is one of those things that have happened to all my friends. But this is different. She told she's hooking on with one of the dudes she met there. [More]

ColdFire: Another Ray Effort

2007-03-10T08:48:00-07:00

Ray Camden just announced a FireBug extension for debugging CF applications, ColdFire. You can read more here. It should make life easy for everyone except me. Why? Because somehow, I never use Firefox (which is my one and only browser) to work with CF applications. The reason is simple: I usually write only enterprise applications and Firefox is unfortunately a mile from conquering the enterprise space

A workaround for the 1000 row limitation on Active Directory Interface

2007-02-19T08:25:00-07:00

While working on a simple system that would allow using Microsoft Word to mail merge documents to users on the network, I bumped into the proverbial 1000 row limitation imposed by the Active Directory interface. [More]

ColdFusion bouncing outside bound emails

2007-02-08T03:01:00-07:00

Recently, I added some features to a framework so that it could send emails (piece of cake on ColdFusion). Well, I got my own emails while testing but a while later, something made me check the undelivered folder for ColdFusion mail engine only to discover that all outward bound mails have been dropped there. [More]

The agony of dude with a beer gut

2007-01-24T04:14:00-07:00

it ain't everyday you get to be called a dude and when you manage to be called one, you want to hold on fast like a leech to that even if the desperate talons of old age is fast clutching at your throat. [More]

Firefox 3 Features

2007-01-24T04:06:00-07:00

Firefox 2 is hardly sitting tight before the pretty boys at Mozilla started building the third iteration of the best browser in the world (sulk if you like!). You can read about some of the interesting features here.

Adobe RIA Conference in Nigeria

2007-01-17T01:55:00-07:00

At last, the RIA beam has been focused on Nigeria.

The Nigerian Adobe User Group would be doing an RIA conference to discuss and showcase what we Nigerian's got to offer. ColdFusion and Flex are going to get serious scrutiny. I also heard that some bits of Apollo would be revealed. The conference would be from January 19 to 21 2007 at Yaba College of Technology (But I gotta go to church!).

For those who don't know, RIA stands for Rich Internet Applications, which is Adobe's cut for the Web 2.0 paradigm. In all honesty, Adobe has been on the RIA stuff before the Web 2.0 apostles got their celestial callings.

For more information, please visit www.augng.com.

Dara is one year old!

2007-01-05T11:10:00-07:00

It was just like yesterday that Dara (my daughter) literarily popped out into this mad mad world; and she's been a bundle of joy ever since.

And today marks her first year on planet earth. It's been fun all the way. I remember when I was so impatient that she wasn't walking on time, now I practically beg and bribe her to sit down and stay still. But children ain't corrupt like the rest of us, so she's not playing ball. [More]

The shorter the better

2006-12-28T00:43:00-07:00

Can you imagine? I haven't written a single technical article in months. The folks at CFDJ (I promised them heaven and earth) must be thinking of spilling my blood by now. And to make matters worse, am adding a short story section to my blog. What will you find there, true life stories, half truths and plain fiction. But all they have in common is just to entertain& me of course.

The Greatest Disappointment

2006-12-18T01:59:00-07:00

A Yoruba adage made popular by the legendary singer, King Sunny Ade, says "Akinkaju t'o mo'ja ti'o mo'sa iru won ma'n b'ogun ibo mi lo ni". Meaning a good warrior knows when to advance and when to retreat. And a better warrior even knows whether to go to war or not. [More]

NOSPETCO: A Classic Ponzi Scheme

2006-12-15T12:19:00-07:00

I have always wanted to write about a classic Ponzi scheme that is making raves in Nigeria of recent but never got around to it until this afternoon when I read about what a like minded person wrote about it.

This is the short take: There is a company in Nigeria, Nospetco, who takes a minimum deposit of N450,000 (about $3,516) for a minimum of 6 months and gives you a flat interest of roughly 8.8% every month. Isn't that interesting? [More]

Yet another dawg out of the street

2006-12-12T08:49:00-07:00

Long time friend, Japin Honeysett, finally summoned courage by taking his long time girlfriend, Sewe (some Tivish name, don't ask me what it means) to the alter. Japin is really brave because he crossed many oceans (Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans. Japin is half british half somewhere in the Pacific ocean) and rivers (Rivers Niger and Benue) to hook up with this lovely damsel. You can see the pictures on Flickr. [More]

What else can I ask for?

2006-12-07T00:41:00-07:00

Sincerely, what else can one ask for except for a good wife? Unless you are related to the Dalai Lama, you have got to get married one of these days. For me, I have always seen marriage as an inevitable life sentence in which a jail break is not favorably viewed. So back in the wild wild days, my plan was if I couldn't dodge going to jail, I could at least postpone the evil day. Until I met my wife. Then my game plan changed. I knew if I lost her, I wouldn't meet anyone like her again. Moral of the story, I married the best woman in the world.

Tongue in cheek: I know a lot of good wife materials but I haven't even seen a better wife material.

What manner of legacy

2006-11-14T04:33:00-07:00

When Obasanjo was sworn-in in May 1999 he promised to uphold the constitution. Of course, those of us who have been in this country since the last 7 years know he has done everything apart from standing strong for the laws he promised to defend. [More]

Make your vote count

2006-11-06T01:06:00-07:00

The voters' registration exercise has been on for a while now. Even though the project has been fraught with a lot of Nigerian factor, there have been strong clamors from different angles for all of us to register. At least, if we don't vote, we can't get the right people in.

My pastor topped it up in church yesterday that not only should we vote good people in, we should also vote bad people out. And the list of bad people is so long you will need a taxi to get to the end of it. For more information, visit www.projectvotenigeria.org

One more crash too many...

2006-10-29T04:59:00-07:00

We were all rudely jolted by news of another ADC airplane crash in Nigeria today. Damn, how many times will these metal birds fall of the sky before someone starts to do something? It is pretty unfortunate how human lives are just wantonly wasted because some dude is inept and corrupt. [More]

The Nigerian Constitution [1999]

2006-10-16T00:00:00-07:00

For those who are interested in the Nigerian Constitution of 1999, you can download it from this link.

The parable of the only child

2006-10-12T07:15:00-07:00

President Obasanjo from Nigeria meets with the Queen of England. He asks her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?" "Well," says the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people." President Obasanjo frowns. "But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?" [More]

Stella Felix in Space? People can be dumb ass!

2006-10-12T04:18:00-07:00

News have been going around that Nigeria, at last, has hurtled someone into space. In this case, a nubile 17 year old girl called Stella Felix. When I first heard it, I didn't believe it and everyone called me a damned cynic. Duh! [More]

The time has come for a Macbook Pro

2006-10-11T14:14:00-07:00

Having endured years of stupidly designed and pretty ugly laptops, I finally decided to opt for a Mac Pro. I am thinking of something black, shining and sexy. Just like an African Queen. Presently I use a HP NC6120 with 1Gig of memory but it is so ugly it makes me feel like puking. And the Windows XP Pro on it makes me feel like crying when it's time to act up. [More]

Google Documents

2006-10-11T13:34:00-07:00

At last, Google has launched a beta program showcasing its Writely (online document editor) acquisition and an online spreadsheet. But the missing gap is linking this with Gmail. Writing well formatted emails on Gmail is not for the faint hearted as at its best, it is terribly simplistic. Also, when is Gmail going to allows us send text messages...? May be free! Am just day dreaming.

Bill Gates in Nigeria

2006-10-09T03:48:00-07:00

Bill Gates came to Nigeria over the weekend to discuss with "Baba Iyabo" on how to eradicate HIV/AIDS and poverty. For me, what I would love most is if Bill could institute a free tuition technological college in Nigeria. Education, though a slow one, is the best means of eradicating poverty in a nation. Check the poorest countries, and you would see countries of illitrates. But for the HIV/AIDS the solution is simple: Just Zip Up (JZU)

Beanz Chopaz drops a baby gurl

2006-09-25T04:42:00-07:00

News from the grapevine just reported that the Chief Genter of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mr. Ademola Ogunmiloro, just dropped a bouncing baby girl. Consequently, the CGF has declared 7 days of unlimited washing in celebrating the good news. The rest of the beanz chopaz are particularly happy that the efforts of the CGF has not been in vain. God bless the baby!

Nokia E70 at last

2006-09-22T07:33:00-07:00

I have been patiently waiting for this phone since it was announced in October 2005. I was using 6820 previously but when the dude decided to take an early trip to the graves, I opted to wait for the E70. I ran through a motley of some temporary phones while steadfastly waiting for this beauty. Now that I have it, am in nirvana. E70 is a cool business phone with 3G and WI-FI support and a slew of other terrific feature.

dupeolorunjo.com goes live

2006-09-11T08:19:00-07:00

Christian author and banker, Dupe Olorunjo, has launched a new book and a brand new website to showcase her spiritointellectual efforts. The website, along with a brand new book, The Aireginan Dream, were launched yesterday, September 10th, 2006 at the Muson Center in Lagos Island. [More]

Another dawg out of the street!

2006-09-11T02:56:00-07:00

My long time pal, Olaleye Oginni, getting married at last. You can't know how relieved I am getting this dawg from roaming the street. And in making sure he doesn't change his mind along the way, I would be right there to the very end. Then I can go back home and sleep with my two eyes closed. He would be getting hooked (for life) to with his sweet heartthrob, Adeola (my wife's name sake). You can click here to give him a good will message.

Election 2007: Lessons to learn from others

2006-09-04T03:49:00-07:00

Super geek Pierce Omidyar ain't only about the web. In his article back in 2004, he outlined why candidates running for elective posts should make sure their votes are well counted. The same can't be truer for the elections coming up in 2007. Candidates should have volunteers who would be at every polling booths to tally the votes as they are being counted. That is another good way to counter rigging in the next general elections. [More]

JustNaija is down again

2006-08-31T03:53:00-07:00

Wannabe gossip and chat website, justnaija.com is down again for the umpteenth time. The issue this time around is that even though the home page works, you can't view threads. [More]

Excel 2007 Quirk

2006-08-25T10:30:00-07:00

Just got a book on Excel 2003 VBA and I thought of doing some reading and experiments. Along the line, I discovered that I couldn't name a sub or function SayHello. Also, I couldn't record a macro called SayHello. I wonder why because SayHello doesnt look like a reserved keyword.

CF8 Wish List

2006-07-24T05:28:00-07:00

The ColdFusion 8th iteration is now hot on the cooker and everyone is wishing for this or that. For me, the following should be sorted out or included:

Better CFDOCUMENT
For the kind of work I do and for enterprise reporting, CFDOCUMENT is just too important but the present implementation is whacked from inside out. All the bugs should be squished and let's get rolling. There should be more formats for the CFDOCUMENT. I suggest Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. [More]

Adeola Oladeji dropped a gurl!

2006-07-12T12:08:00-07:00

One of my friends (Ade who got married last year, remember him?) just dropped a gurl this morning. Can you imagine that despite all the bragging, he could only do a gurl. I guess if he has 2 more daughters, the three of them then would be equivalent to a boy. Or is my maths too generous?

Anyway, big congrats to Ade Luv and Yetunde. Next month, Ade and I are going shopping for Pit Bulls and double barrel pump action guns...

Rich Folks? Don't visit them no more...

2006-06-27T06:43:00-07:00

Someone sent this to me and it's pretty funny.

**************************************************

Below was an encounter with a rich friend during a visit to his house sometime

Question: "What would you like to have ...Fruit juice, Soda, Tea, Chocolate, Milo, or Coffee?"
Answer: "Tea please."
Question : "Ceylon tea, Herbal tea, Bush tea, Honey bush tea, Iced tea or green tea ?"
Answer : "Ceylon tea."
Question : "How would you like it ? black or white?" <
Answer: "White."
Question: "Milk, Whitener, or Condensed milk?"
Answer: "With milk."
Question: "Goat milk, Camel milk or cow milk?"
Answer: "With cow milk please. br/>Question: " Milk from Freeze land cow or Afrikaner cow?"
Answer:"Um,I'll take it black."
Question: "Would you like it with sweetener, sugar or honey?"
Answer: "With sugar."
Question: "Beet sugar or cane sugar?"
Answer: "Cane sugar."
Question:"White, brown or yellow sugar?"
Answer: "Ooh, Forget about tea just give me a glass of water instead."
Question: "Mineral water or still water?"
Answer: "Mineral water."
Question: "Flavoured or non-flavoured ?"
Answer: "Leave it I'm OK".
I simply got up and left.
YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN?

Television is dangerous for your kids

2006-06-27T06:07:00-07:00

A study (recent???) has shown that TV could really be dangerous to the well-being of our young ones. As a new father, I have been consuming so much materials on how to raise good children. This is important when you consider that when you are old and achieved, it is the success of your children that can bring the real satisfaction.

So I guess once Dara starts growing up, the TV would have to shift out the living room. Or that is too severe? For you to decide, you would need to read this to see the ills that TV can wreck in a young life.

Evolution of a Programmer

2006-06-27T05:53:00-07:00

A very funny depiction of how programmers evolve over time...

Interesting Facts about Germany 2006 World Cup

2006-06-20T02:33:00-07:00

Pool Feed for Broadcasters	1
Number of Directors	6
PanAmSats used to send HD signal worldwide	9
Cities hosting matches	12
Panels on current FIFA football	14
Distinct feeds produced by HBS per match	16
Outside Broadcast Vans	20
HD Cameras used to cover each match (per stadium)	25
Microphones covering each match	25
Length of event (days)	31
Nations participating	32
Match officials	33
Number of matches broadcast in HD for 2002 FIFA World Cup	48
Interview studios	50
Total matches played	64
Number of matches broadcast in HD for 2006 FIFA World Cup	64
Presentation studios	70
Number of Fujinon HD Lenses deployed	100
Worldwide Broadcasters	180
Players	736
Length of audio/video cabling	750 km
Unilateral camerapositions	800
Length of cabling in total for 12 venues	1300 km
First year of the FIFA World Cup	1930
Commentary positions	2000
HBS staff to produce content	2000
Hours of feeds produced	2200
Estimated number of press on scene	15000
Estimated number of network connections	45000
Expected visitors per game	40000 - 60000
RFID embedded tickets	3.5 million
Cost to sponsor the games	$30 to $50 million
Estimated cost of voice and data network deployed by Avaya	$100 million
Viewers expected to watch the games	5 billion

Source:Audio Video Producer

Riya Photo Search

2006-06-16T11:18:00-07:00

A self proclaimed photo search on the Internet, Riya, just opened shop. But I guess the result is not worth the candle. This link shows what you get when you search for R Kelly (am a Kelly fan).

Teen-only ringtone

2006-06-16T11:12:00-07:00

NYTimes just reported on a new type of ring tones that is inaudible to adults.

"While most human communication takes place in a frequency range between 200 and 8,000 hertz (a hertz being the scientific unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second), most adults' ability to hear frequencies higher than that begins to deteriorate in early middle age."

cfdocument is breaking my heart

2006-06-06T07:27:00-07:00

I have been facing a challenge of using cfdocument to create very nasty and mean looking reports. After boasting about all CF can do, I guess getting reports out on PDF should be as simple as abc. Alas, I think I boasted one more time too many. The cfdocument rendition of anything apart from simple text is pathetic. It is so buggy that I wonder which Macromedia product manager signed off on it. Its processing of CSS styles, positioning, font-sizes are so terrible. Right now, I feel like breaking someone's ..... My!

Welcome to the World, Baby Kaka

2006-06-06T02:29:00-07:00

One of my friends just dropped a bouncing baby boy too. He's Oluwasubomi Oluwaseyi, Ayotomiwa, Oluwakayode, Iseoluwa, Oluwatosin, Oladimeji, David, Emmanuel Kaka.

I use to think my baby has the longest name but am sure this one beats her hands down...

Congratulations to the Kakas.

Adieu! GoLive and Freehand

2006-06-01T02:33:00-07:00

The recent marriage of Adobe and Macromedia has produced its first set of casualties. Adobe has announced that it would be discontinuing GoLive and Freehand. This link is in French. Don't bother asking me if I can read Farancé. GoLive will step aside for the almighty Dreamweaver while Freehand will bow to Illustrator.

Dreamweaver will be sporting a brand new interface (Yeah, it is time for that!) and will also be included in Adobe Creative Suite 3.

Open Source ColdFusion?

2006-06-01T02:29:00-07:00

Vince Bonfatti is asking questions if Blue Dragon should be open sourced. I guess some dudes have been laying it on him.
I don't think so. Must everything be open sourced?

Baby Olamide is Born

2006-05-27T08:32:00-07:00

My friends (Lekan 'Sully' Sule and his wife, Madam Sule) just dropped a bouncing baby boy. He's named Olamide Olalekan-Sule. Many congrats to the family.

Meanwhile, Madam Sule has been clamoring for Olamide to marry my baby girl. I am sad to say, however, that that would be very difficult to do. You know what? We 've got some, em, eligible bachelors groomed to woo Dara. So he's got to join the queue and prove his mettle. [More]

Single Row Bug on Linked DB2

2006-05-22T15:06:00-07:00

I don't know how I could describe the frustration I have passed through when a linked DB2 server on MS SQL started returning 1 single row using the openquery syntax.

After trolling on the net for days, I finally found a solution at http://sastools.com/b2/post/79394261#comments

The New Adobe Website

2006-05-02T01:49:00-07:00

At last, macromedia.com was finally collapsed into Adobe. There is now a brand new website. Or what people think is a brand new website. Because IMHO, the site was just a jazzed up macromedia.com.

I hope Adobe will take care of us like Macromedia used to.

Security Web Applications

2006-04-27T02:23:00-07:00

There is a great article on web security at ColdFusion Muse. This is part of a series of security articles you have got to read. I think it is best to secure out applications now before it gets too late. You never know when the hackers would strike.

Configuring DB2 (Legacy) as Linked Server on MS SQL

2006-04-20T12:15:00-07:00

Like I have discussed before, I have been banging my head against the table (I mean it!) on a project I am working on presently. This project involves writing fancy reports against very nasty databases. One, they are as old as my late grandfather (the oldest among the two) and two, the data is all messed up. [More]

Bug or Quirk: Error on CF Query of Queries

2006-04-13T06:09:00-07:00

CF threw an error when I ran a query of queries (QoQ) on a recordset which has zone in it and I was using the column on a group by select (to gimmie summaries on a dashboard, you get it?). Is this a bug or quirk?

"Query Of Queries syntax error.
Encountered "zone. Incorrect Select List, Incorrect select column,"

Oracle NVL equivalent on MS SQL

2006-04-12T15:08:00-07:00

I have been an Oracle DB person for quite a while until my new job where we are running DB2 and MS SQL for the moment. Now, in Oracle, the NVL() function is a quick shortcut for series of nasty CASE THEN ELSE statements. Since the data am dealing with here is a little messy, I needed plenty of such. [More]

Honda Accords and their Nigerian pet names

2006-04-05T12:46:00-07:00

While shopping for a new car recently, I was seriously considering a Honda Accord. What struck me however was the funny names Nigerians have given the different generations of Honda Accords. [More]

Web 2.0/Ajax will not save the world

2006-04-04T01:58:00-07:00

Over the last one year since Jesse James Garette unleashed the Ajax dragon (he didn't create it, he only gave it a fancy name) everyone has jumped on the bandwagon of how Web 2.0 (whatever that means) and Ajax will save the world. How they will chase the traditional desktop app out of the market. Well, I don't believe it. It is too much hype. [More]

If You Have Three Shirts...

2006-04-02T17:18:00-07:00

I guess there is somewhere in the bible where Jesus talked about the fact that if you have two shirts, give one to someone who doesnt have. I dont know why am writing this. But one thing I know is that I am mightily sad in my heart. Not because I didnt get what I wanted but because of some out-of-this-world earth-shaking display of selfishness by someone. Man, it hurts me when people become so full of themselves and getting to help the next person becomes the most difficult thing in the world. [More]

1 Terabyte Flash Disk?

2006-03-16T06:41:00-07:00

Texas Memory Systems just released a monster-sized flash memory called Tera-RamSan. Isn't that awesome? Check it out at http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/

Never fly on budget

2006-03-12T00:44:00-07:00

Is this the new age wisdom? Well I didnt know until I found out the hard way. I had a precious one week in between two jobs and I felt like making the best out of it. The best in this situation was running away from everything. You know, the calls, emails, bla bla bla. [More]

Today is my last day at Access Bank

2006-02-28T00:00:00-07:00

Today marks my last day as an Access Bank employee. It's been quite a trip. [More]

Firefox Bug? Windows Quirk?

2006-02-24T02:40:00-07:00

Anytime my Firefox 1.5.01 shows a pop up that I should participate in a survey, and I click Cancel, my XP SP2 says Firefox has crashed and it closes.

Web 2.1

2006-02-20T15:03:00-07:00

A crazy article about the new web. Time has come again for the old dudes to start looking for startup funds.
Read it here: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3594

Meebo keeps all IM in one place

2006-02-17T14:32:00-07:00

Meebo is an AJAX on steroid web application that allows you to login to Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Jabber, GTalk and ICQ all at the same time without installing any desktop app. The startup is run by a dude and 2 babes (chikitos!).

Check them out at www24.meebo.com

JComponents Downloads

2006-02-17T06:47:00-07:00

Joe Rinehart of Clearsoftware has discountinued the download and support of the popular JComponents widgets. However, since I still have a recent download, I am making it available here for download. Please note that the components are free but not open source. Also, I will not be giving any form of support, so don't ask for it. This download contains JTab, JTree and JAccordion.

Download JComponents

Obituary: Papa Has Gone Home

2006-02-11T07:58:00-07:00

How things change so fast. Last month, 25th of January, I wrote about the Nairaland Phenomenon. It is so sad that few days later, the head nigger in-charge there developed a nasty and acute case of Megalomania. I have since dropped all associations with them. He has systematically deleted most of my posts. However, this is the last one before I left. [More]

The Nairaland Phenomenon

2006-01-25T13:34:00-07:00

It is unbelievable that this mega Nigerian online community has operated below most peoples radar for so long. But for the more than twelve thousand Nairaland members, it is a towering monolith that keeps growing everyday. Nairaland, an online forum for Nigerians founded by Nigerian webmaster Seun Osewa and could be found at www.Nairaland.com. [More]

BBC Versus CNN

2006-01-23T03:43:00-07:00

Do you know that more people go to the BBC website than the CNN website? Interesting find out more at http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=lang&lang=en

This Guy is Insane

2006-01-18T10:50:00-07:00

Someone toiled nights and day to write a lovely piece of blogging software (powering this website) and gave it out for free. Then another person woke up one day, stole the code and started reselling it as his own.

What do you call such a person? A mad man. A donkey with 2 legs.

The person is Ray Horn. Read more about what he did.

Naming Baby Olowe

2006-01-12T16:00:00-07:00

Today will mark the begining of a new life as my new baby girl gets a name.

She was named Adeolu Oluwadarasimi Oluwabusolami Oreoluwa Oluwapelumi Oluwanifesimi Oluwato'oni Naomi Deji-Olowe. Pretty long name but you can be sure some will drop along the line. Expect the short name to be Deolu Dara Deji-Olowe. [More]

The Gbenga Obasanjo Interview

2006-01-10T05:23:00-07:00

nThat Gbenga Obasanjo has stirred up the hornet's nest is no news but have you read the rest of the interviews? Just plain juicy. Read it all at The Nigerian Village.

I 'v a new baby girl

2006-01-05T02:02:00-07:00

Precisely at 1:55AM today, I got my brand new baby girl. She looked so cool (but ~~black~~ her aunt Duronke doesn't want that. She's black and beautiful). For now, we call her baby BT. Check the photos section to see some preview.

Happy New Year!

2006-01-01T00:00:00-07:00

Happy new year to everyone out there. May the good Lord make 2006 a year of blessings and prosperity. Amen

But you got to play your part: BE GOOD TO EVERYONE!

The Evils of Flash Forms

2005-12-28T00:53:00-07:00

When Flash forms were first released by on CFMX7 everyone hooed and haaed it as the best thing that ever happened to UI development since Berners-Lee invented HTML.

Like others, I quickly ported some applications to Flash forms and I was grinning from ear to ear like a hobbit but it didn't take long before I was brought down to reality. Brought down hard. [More]

What manner of Government...

2005-12-21T01:08:00-07:00

I don't know if we have been cursed with the fire brigade spirit. I don't know why it takes disasters to make our government to move. And even when they move, it is so so clumsy. [More]

Too Old to Squat

2005-12-12T01:00:00-07:00

There was a man who really took care of his body. One day he took a look in the mirror and noticed that he was tan all over except for his penis. So he decided to do something about it. [More]

Why?

2005-12-05T01:03:00-07:00

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?

Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough? [More]

Times have changed

2005-12-04T01:11:00-07:00

25 years ago...... [More]

A Visit to Mental Asylum

2005-12-01T01:07:00-07:00

During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director, "What is the critera that defines a patient to be institutionalized?" "Well..." said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, and offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask them to empty the bathtub." [More]

The Pope's last request

2005-11-30T09:29:00-07:00

As Pope John Paul II was dying; he sent for Tafa Balogun and Dipereye to come to the Vatican. [More]

Active Directory on Coldfusion Journal

2005-11-29T14:53:00-07:00

My article on Active Directory integration has been published by the Coldfusion Developer Journal. You can read it here.

Applause

2005-11-25T02:12:00-07:00

The soldiers are tired and lonely after spending weeks in enemy territory. To entertain them the Major called for this HOT number from the nearby town.

She came, danced and when the first dance was done, the soldiers went mad. They clapped for 5 minutes. [More]

Happy Thanksgiving

2005-11-25T02:05:00-07:00

Divorcing After 45 Years An old man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day, But I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough." "Pop, what are you talking about," the son screams. "We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the old man said. "We're sick and tired of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her." And he hangs up. [More]

It's dog's life after all.........

2005-11-19T02:15:00-07:00

A butcher watching over his shop is really surprised when he sees a dog coming inside the shop. He shoos him away. But later, the dog is back again. So, he goes over to the dog and notices it has a note in its mouth. He takes the note and it reads "Can I have 12 sausages and a leg of lamb, please". The dog has money in its mouth, as well. The butcher looks inside and, lo and behold, there is a ten dollar note there. So he takes the money and puts the sausages and lamb in a bag, placing it in the dog's mouth. [More]

Dynamic Component Path

2005-11-16T08:49:00-07:00

I moved a CMS application from one server to the other (which was almost a good replica of the production server) and CF couldn't find my components again. Since I don't have a ready access to the webroot to store my components I had to look for a way to dynamically pass the component path to the CreateObject function. [More]

Sony is not OK at all

2005-11-15T00:56:00-07:00

Seems everyone knows what Sony has been up to. The company is not better than those evil hackers that write terrible vira except that it is big and very mean. From now on, I wouldn't be found dead within a mile of a Sony; it has gone too far, it has broken public trust and the d**ned company ain't even contrite!

Everyone should boycott Sony, it should be taught a lesson.

What .Com can do to your brain!

2005-11-14T02:08:00-07:00

An ambitious yuppie finally decided to take a vacation. He booked himself on a Caribbean cruise and proceeded to have the time of his life... until the boat sank! The man found himself swept up on the shore of an island with no other people, no supplies... Nothing. Only bananas and coconuts. [More]

ColdFusion White Space Reduction

2005-11-01T14:50:00-07:00

I just finished our new website (my place of work). Now, I live in Nigeria and most of our customers are resident in Nigeria too. However, because of our local Internet infrastructural constraints, most visitors would have narrowband connections. [More]

The Heart of Men

2005-10-27T01:56:00-07:00

Someone came around to pick some mails in my office. While signing for the mails, I saw that he's a Joseph. I jokingly asked him if his wife was Mary and his son Jesus? You can guess his reply? [More]

Obasanjo has a nerd son

2005-10-26T07:50:00-07:00

Seems someone appreciates technology in the Obasanjo's clan. Dare Obasanjo, who works at Microsoft, runs a website and blog.

Wedding Prisoner

2005-10-12T04:55:00-07:00

On their wedding night, the bride told her husband:

"Honey, am a virgin and I don't know anything about sex,
Can you explain it to me first so I don't embarrass you?"
OK, sweetheart. Putting it simply we will call your part "the prison" and call mine "the prisoner".
So what we do is put the prisoner in the prison. As simple as that. [More]

A fool for life

2005-10-12T04:53:00-07:00

A guy gets home early from work and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom.

He rushes upstairs to find his wife naked on the bed, sweating and panting. [More]

Dunlop Rubber would have prevented this accident...

2005-10-07T06:57:00-07:00

A young woman who was several months pregnant boarded a bus.Then she noticed a young man smiling at her, presuming he was laughing at her on account of her condition. She changed her seatbut he only seemed more amused. [More]

Yoruba Dictionary

2005-10-05T13:56:00-07:00

For the Yoruba dudes who don't know their left from their right, hit www.yorubadictionary.com to find out what that silly word ;-) means. This work is being sponsored by Dr Adebusola Onayemi of learnyoruba.com.

What men 'v got to say about them women...

2005-10-04T03:20:00-07:00

This is what some of the great men have thought about marriage and Women..... Some when trying to be humorous...... What a shame.

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. --David Bissonette [More]

I own the pepsi

2005-10-04T03:19:00-07:00

A Jamiacan Rasta man and his wife are in court getting a divorce. The problem was who should get custody of the child. The wife jumped up and said, "Your Honor. I brought the child into this world with pain and labor. She should be in my custody." The judge turns to the husband and says, "what do you have to say in the matter?" The rastaman sat for a while contemplating...then slowly rose. Your Honor, If I man put a dollar in a vending machine and a Pepsi comes out, whose Pepsi is it...'I and I' or the machine's?"

Dopey and the Penguin

2005-10-02T23:52:00-07:00

The seven dwarfs go to the Vatican, and because they are THE seven dwarfs, they are ushered in to see the Pope.

Dopey leads the pack. "Dopey, my son," says the Pope, "what can I do for you?"

Dopey asks, "Excuse me your Excellency, but are there any dwarf nuns in Rome?"

The Pope wrinkles his brow at the odd question, thinks for a moment and answers, "No Dopey, there are no dwarf nuns in Rome." [More]

Nasty Sex

2005-10-01T06:16:00-07:00

Everybody who has a dog calls him "Rover" or "Spot" I made the mistake of calling mine "Sex".

Now Sex has been very embarrassing to me. When I went to city hall to renew his dog license, I told the clerk I would like a license for Sex. He said "I'd like to have one too!" Then I said "But this is for a dog." He said "I don't care what she looks like." Then I said "You don't understand, I've had Sex since I was nine years old." He said "You must have been quite a kid." [More]

Revisited: Is this a CFMAIL bug?

2005-09-30T03:24:00-07:00

Now am back this morning. Even though I could not breathe freely, I was still curious to know what could have gone wrong. Who am I to say a solid program like CF7 has a bug (a roach or something more creepy)? [More]

Is this a CFMAIL bug?

2005-09-29T16:42:00-07:00

I just finished deploying a newsletter software showcasing some fancy CFFORM do da functions to the Library department. However, along the line, someone (up there) felt the user profile of the of the sender ID for the newsletter should be changed. We did the change on AD and since then, the mails have stopped coming in. [More]

Not the best time to take a jump

2005-09-29T15:08:00-07:00

Dear Husband:

I'm writing you this letter to tell you that I'm leaving you for good. I've been a good woman to you for seven years and I have nothing to show for it. These last two weeks have been hell. Your boss called to tell me that you had quit your job today and that was the last straw. [More]

Should non-dev organizations develop applications?

2005-09-27T13:21:00-07:00

For those of us who work in the IT department of organizations, and who have some programming skills, we face a recurrent issue of build versus buy. Sometimes, a dude in finance wants some fancy Excel macro, for a report NOW! Where I work, everything is needed NOW or worse still, yesterdayJ. (Back to the Fancy dude/Excel macro) Should I search MS market place and buy a suitable macro or bump my head on macro writing to develop something for the annoying gnat. [More]

Guns ét al

2005-09-23T03:01:00-07:00

An old Italian Mafia Don is dying, and he called his grandson to his bed.

"Grandson, I wan you to lissin to me. I wan you to take my chrome plated 38 revolver so you will always remember me."
"But grandpa, I really don't like guns, ... how about leaving me your Rolex watch instead.."
"You lissin to me. Some day you gonna be runnin da bussiness, you gonna have a beautiful wife, lotta money, lotta lolitas,a big home and maybe a coupla of bambinis. "Some day you gonna come home and maybe find ya wife in bed with another man. Whadda ya gonna do then? Pointa da watch and say, ... TIME UP? [More]

My CF8 wish list

2005-09-20T15:32:00-07:00

The CF8 flour is in the mix and on its way to the oven. Now that we've been asked to dream big, so I will be stating my own wish list here. [More]

Email and Success

2005-09-19T03:31:00-07:00

A jobless man applied for the position of "office boy "at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. "You are employed "he said. "Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start ". The man replied "But I don't have a computer, neither an email. " "I'm sorry ", said the HR manager, "If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job. " [More]

New Lingo for an Old Priest

2005-09-19T03:21:00-07:00

There was an old priest who got sick of all the people in his parish who kept confessing to adultery. One Sunday, in the pulpit, he said, "If I hear one more person confess to adultery, I'll quit!"Everyone liked him, so they came up with a code word. Someone who had committed adultery would say instead that they had "fallen." [More]

Laughter is the best medicine

2005-09-19T03:18:00-07:00

Work could be very killing. And for some of us, work is murder, murdering the very fun out of our lives. But ain't gonna sit on my butt and let this work zapp the fun out of me. [More]

Naija Airways!!!!!

2005-09-16T05:56:00-07:00

Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is your captain (Boniface) welcoming you on board of Nigeria Airways. We apologize for the four-day delay in taking off, it was due to bad weather and some overtime I had to put in at the bakery. This is flight 126 to Lagos. Landing in Lagos is not guaranteed, but we will end up somewhere in the south. If luck is in our favor, we may even be landing on your village! [More]

Dreamweaver 8 Rocks

2005-09-13T07:18:00-07:00

Or may be the code view. At last, Macromedia has given us what Homesite use to have then; proper code management. Now, you could collapse portions of code, highlight tag parents recursively, highlight invalid syntax, etc.

Condom in the rain

2005-09-13T06:13:00-07:00

A woman was having a daytime affair while her husband was at work. One wet and rainy day she was in bed with her boyfriend when to her horror, she heard her husband's car pull into the driveway. She looked out the window and yelled to her lover:

"Quick, jump out the window; my husband's home early!!!" [More]

Studio 8 is finally out

2005-09-13T04:54:00-07:00

After waiting for what seems like a century, Macromedia finally pushed Studio 8 out of the garage door. Visit Macromedia to download a trial, hope it would be worth the $399 upgrade.

Flash forms and how not to upgrade CFMX7

2005-08-30T10:51:00-07:00

When the honchos at work decided to put some business processes on the intranet, I felt it was the best time to start putting flash forms to it's paces. Process automation could be fiendishly difficult with so much validations. I hardly use javascript because some dude could have its browser saying capital NO. And server side is not the easiest stuff to do and the roundabout trip could make the sanest man go schizo! [More]

Leveraging on the Active Directory Infrastructure: Base/Foundation Services

2005-08-25T07:34:00-07:00

Since we have decided to use the AD as the user management foundation for the different web applications running on the network, it's now so easy to write applications without worry. But won't it be nice for users to login on one application and remain in session across multiple applications just like you have on yahoo, msn, windows network, etc? [More]

I guess am back...

2005-08-22T03:34:00-07:00

Had to take a quick vacation to rest some parts of my aching body. It was really fun running away from work and getting paid for doing so.

Dreamweaver 8 is out

2005-08-08T05:14:00-07:00

Macromedia just released Studio 8, which includes the much loved/hated Dreamweaver. For me, the coolest additions are the XML and the zoom tools. Go to Macromedia to read more.

How Mozzies Affect Projects

2005-08-04T03:49:00-07:00

If you think only tech issues, budget, (nasty) bosses, etc can derail a beautiful projects, think otherwise. A nastier determinant is the Mozzy. [More]

Leveraging on the Active Directory Infrastructure

2005-07-27T12:23:00-07:00

When CF developers talk of not reinventing the wheel, we tend to quickly think of CFLIB.org, fancy web services, borrowed CFCs, commercial components like SoEditor, KTML, etc
[More]

A new day to start a blog

2005-07-19T14:11:00-07:00

Today should mark the start of my life in Blogosphere. Special thanks to Ray Camden not only for providing BlogCFC but also for helping out in setting it up.