Like a diamond streaked with earth Whose beauty is concealed beneath Like a tiny twinkling star Whose greatness is above par Like a ship that dots the sea Loaded with treasures only few see Such and more is Elebele Having a history beyond a ballet Though with a size that shrinks a town Yet has a most humbling brawn Like a city set on a hidden hill And from within others look small The hometown of many great men Men whose lives make them a gem A big heart, and to strangers well psyched Playing host ...
Remember that post I made on modding your G1 and how I mentioned that I just recently modded mine. Well after flashing cyanogenmod 6.0.0-DS on my G1 and was stunned by the exquisite (Windows 7 – like) graphics, I was greatly disappointed to find my G1 so slow that navigating to the homescreen became a touch and travel activity. The camera app was greatly frustrating, after ...
How to enable Internet Banking for your GTB (Guaranty Trust Bank) account
posted on , by Michael Olafusi
For a long time I have wanted to be able to check my bank account online. I have accounts in United Bank for Africa (UBA), Spring Bank (now Enterprise bank), Intercontinental Bank (now Access bank) and GTB. Despite the fact that the account I have in GTB is a current account and those in the other banks are savings accounts, I find GTB's current account less expensive to manage and GTB's ...
As you'll most likely know (if you have read my previous posts) I am currently running my compulsory one year NYSC scheme in Bayelsa state as a Mathematics teacher in a community school, Elebele. Well, towards the end of the month of July, the school rounded up for the session we (both teachers and students) were given a two months holiday. Though, I spent the majority of the days in those two months in my lodge, I managed to summon enough courage to withdraw all my allowee for the month of August ...
How to share internet access on your android phone with other phones and computers via wireless connection (wifi)
posted on , by Michael Olafusi
I have been hearing about a “Wireless Tether” app for months now and even tried installing it, but to my disappointment it requires me to have rooted my phone so I couldn't use it. Then last week I finally rooted my phone and was amazed by the quality of connectivity I got between my phone and my laptop. And another amazing thing about this wireless tethering than makes it far desirable than the USB tethering (that comes along with the android OS 2.2) is that it allows multiple computers to connect ...
Remember that post I made on changing the google account of HTC Dream? Then you will remember me saying “I bought a fairly new G1...” Well, there was this day I posted a tweet on twitter saying I had issues with data usage of my G1, and a friend (@kenniy) responded and told me to mod my G1 for optimum performance and recommended Cyanogen Mod. Since that day (which should be 6 months ago), after reading about the benefits, I decided in my mind that I was definitely gonna mod my G1. Then after ...
I know that I am a bunch of surprises Surprises that leave my friends dazed for days I know that I am quite unpredictable Though majorly in ways quite desirable I know very well that I'm a change freak With a mind that flutters with each clock tick I'm convinced my mind has its own mind Though now I do not seem to mind As long has it stays within its bounds And is quick to perceive the outer sounds I know I think way to much Though with efforts not mu ...
My life is fraught with dreams Collections of well coordinated stray thoughts Aspirations made more fluid than streams Wishes in the fjord of reality caught Desires seeking expression in my future Dreams I daily run through in my mind Constituting my second most valued treasure And to the world have they made me blind But surprisingly, I discovered today During my daily meditation routine After thinking back several days Analyzing my life and looking within That one of my dreams, a weird one A ...
I received this mail with the name of the mailer as Dr. Farida Waziri. It is definitely a fraud, so please do not use the contact email or phone numbers. I posted it because I frequently receive similar scam mails and I am amazed when people fall for such low level fraud. ...
As you probably know, I'm serving (NYSC) as a Teacher in Basic Junior Secondary School, Elebele, Bayelsa state. Well, I gave my (year 1 or JSS1) students an assignment, to write an essay on how they spent their mid-term break. Here is one of my favorite - How I spent my mid Term break First. In the morning when I was asleep my mom wake me up and told me to go and take my baet and I ...
I gave my JSS1 students an assignment - How did you spend your mid term break? Here is one of the funniest essays - My name is eluina Afuga I am in J.S.S.1B I am writing on How I SPENT my MID-TERM Break. I went to Church on Sunday on Saturday I went to the market to buy somethings and on Thursday I went to Lagos and sent my children day on Thursday 27 of may we went to misser Beans ...
I recently bought a fairly new HTC G1 after a long tiring search for android phones at Computer village, Ikeja (Lagos, Nigeria). Most of the phone dealers had only windows mobile phones, iPhone and Blackberry, but no android phone. Just when I was about giving up, I came across a dealer that had a fairly new HTC G1 (he called it London-used but it's obviously from USA). Anyway, I bought the phone and if not for the Motorola charger that came with it I could have easily passed as new. Since ...
Jealousy, it is best described as a cancer It starts small and grows over time It is simply the bad side of envy That seeks to destroy what it does not have Jealousy is as old as mankind It made Abel kill his brother Cain It destroys nations, families, friends and all in its path The cause of the bloodiest war in heaven among the angels The cause of Hitler's hatred for the prosperous jews The reason for France, Portugal and Britain's colonizations The driving force of Napoleons's mission The foundation ...
How brightly you light my world How boldly you speak to me without a word My whole world revolves around you The sky above you is always blue I struggle to catch my breath in your presence I become as numb and still as a fence Your voice never ceases to ring in my head My thoughts of our future makes heavy my head I am cold with worries of being unworthy In tears drawn to consider myself an ill company But I know that no matter how I stammer Beyond the words I utter you will get what I mutt ...
The past three months were unusual I was very bothered about my NYSC About where my posting will be Where my state of deployment will be I knew what I did not want But was confused about what I wanted I got a plum job offer at NSN A job worth maneuvering for I felt like lobbying for Lagos state That was the beginning of my confusion “Is it right or wrong to influence my posting?” Though I felt it's not very very right But I concluded that it's not wrong As long has I do not bribe anyone for ...
How to automatically change to directories with very long full path using easy to remember alias
posted on , by Michael Olafusi
My laptop's 160GB hard disk is partitioned into more than six logical partitions and I multi-boot Windows 7, Windows XP, Kubuntu, Mandriva and Fedora. So you can imagine how I must have butchered the 160GB. I have managed to logically organize my files on the system, I put my iso image files in Kubuntu and Mandriva, my documents are in Windows XP and Windows 7. This makes it possible for ...
I have this folder I named "Download", It is one of the largest folder in my Windows partition because it is where I stuff all my software and other downloads. I have always wished that I could right click on any software on a flash drive or CD and see Downloads folder as one of the destination I could Send To. Well this wish did come true, so I will show you how I did it. I navigated ...
Last November when I saw MTN advert of their 3.5G F@stlink modem going for the price of NGN8,500, I could not keep my mind of it till I finally bought it in December. The NGN10,000 3GB bundle for 30 days is too expensive for me (now) and the NGN500 50MB bundle for a day is simply out of the options, so I started with the NGN2,500 3GB bundle with access time between 10:00pm to 5:00am ...
My laptop's DVD drive is bad, so I prefer copying images of CD/DVDs through a friend's computer DVD drive and pasting it in my cd_image folder (a special folder I created for just iso images). The command I use for copying CD/DVD images is dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/home/freeman/cd_image/cdname.iso This command is pretty straight forward, the dd stands for disk dump, if stands for input ...
There is one thing I treasure greatly Far more than all other things The only thing I cling to closely Its joy in my heart daily rings My life without it is unimaginable It is the essence of my life Its importance is simply indescribable The source of innumerable repreive The hope I daily walk in The comfort I never lack The fortress I live in The strength beyond my back In it lies my aspirations The dreams of who I ought to be The reward for my perspirations The assurance of who ...
These last eight months have been change filled for me I've been experiencing changes at a rate that dazes me My entire belief system has been almost totally restructured My perception of what is right and wrong has been altered I seem detached from my world in a rather more intimate way A little happy and a little sad are the extremes of my mood sway I am more concerned with what happens around me than within me The me I see in my dreams of the future is sometimes uneviable to me I try to bridge ...
