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It’s worth a look.

The initial reaction was “Oh, boy! What’s google doing again venturing into the browser business? Do they want to dominate the world?”. I assure you though that while that is a legitimate first reaction, the browser is indeed worth a second look!

There is this 52 minute Youtube video released on the launch date. If you have the time, it’s worth a peep. Google Chrome Launch Sept 2.

Principal officials of the presidency have taken an oath of silence. This was widely publicized in most media yesterday. What is happening? It is even stranger considering that by virtue of their positions, official silence is already presumed. What is the super-secret cult-like event happening in Nigerian presidential circles that would warrant an extra layer of secrecy oath taking.

Ok, since the government has resorted to keeping us in the dark, we are left with two options: guess-work; and seeking out alternative information sources. For the latter, I have found saharareporters.com a good outlet. Run by a ‘renegade’ Nigerian former student activist, supposedly operating from New York, his medium has become an outlet for ‘whistle-blowers’ in Nigeria. All those who have a say but no podium shout to saharareporters and they get published. Continue reading →

This is where I bank and their services are good but they have one defect that they share with other Nigerian banks … they skim off bits and pieces from your account. Multiplied by thousands of clients, this is how they make their millions for which everybody proclaims that “the banking industry is robust”. Indeed!

One day they charge me COT (Charge on transfer) twice. When you complain, they apologize. Another day, they charge you for an unknown concept, named with codes they alone understand. And so on. I’m almost tempted to keep my money at home!

On Monday I requested a Letter of Introduction from them, as my bankers, to another entity. They did, graciously it seemed. I received a notification from them yesterday with a charge for that letter! And I thought they were being helpful…

To the organisers in Beijing, it was a detail, but lip-synching in the opening ceremony struck at the heart of the Olympic spirit.

So, the footage of the “footprint” fireworks was digitally inserted in the TV coverage of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. And Lin Miaoke, the adorable nine-year-old “singer,” was miming the Ode to the Motherland, as seven-year-old Yang Peiyi’s voice floated over the 90,000-person crowd and was transmitted across the world. Continue reading →

Yes, in spite of the obviously saturated market, people are still coming out with new magazines in Nigeria.  Understandably that was my initial (justified) reaction.  But “WorkLife” sets out as if concious of this and is different from the outset.  That’s smart because the only way to survive a reprint is to have something unique and it seems to do - addressing an oft neglected issue of work-life balance.

A friend brought the magazine to my attention today.  Printing is superb with Direct Imaging.  Photographs are quite good and attractive and I read it through in two sittings (less than one day!).

The crew is relatively inexperienced, at least without previous (serious) pedigree in publishing but I think they credited themselves well.  I couldn’t help sending off an sms to one of the publicised cell phone numbers to say congrats.

I think we’ll be hearing more about them.

PS. By the way, they have a website worklifemag.com but you better not visit yet cos it’s “under construction”