Organise your life with Google Calendar.

Google launched a web calendar, which is a free service that not only enables you to get alerts via sms but also allows you to have multiple calendars for your schedules under one account.

The features.
Google Calendar, available at www.google.com/calendar, offers a number of easy to use features including a drag and drop interface and the ability to see you diary, 1 day, 4 days, a week and a month at a time.

The Good news:

You can get the calendar to remind you of events via SMS, and also be able to run multiple calendars from the same log-in, so you can have one for business, home and whatever else you care to run a separate calendar.


Opinion:
I am really loving it. Google seems to be solving every, virtually possible problems day by day, but wait a minute, are they just realeasing the bits and pieces of their Goobuntu OS, whilst still developing it? It might be? who knows?

The Source of news:
Pocket-lint.

Govt to run ‘Made in Nigeria’ software.

According to a news report at Technology times, the federal government of Nigeria has approved a directive that only ‘Made in Nigeria’ software should run on the IT systems of the nation’s public offices and institutions.

Technology Times checks reveal exclusively that the directive comes into force following a Federal Executive Council (FEC) approval by President Olusegun Obasanjo that all government agencies and institutions must run only ‘Made in Nigeria’ software.

Read more of the news report here…..

Opinion:

Did I get the news report right? Or is it the FEC, that are too stupid to understand that saying something like “Made in Nigeria software only” is not only vague but a sign of IT illiteracy? Or maybe it is just me been too excited about the whole news report. Still can’t figure that out.

Things Nigeria doesn’t have.
1. A made in Nigerian Operating system.
2. A made in Nigerian Enterprise Applications besides small-light scale applications to serve different niches.
3. A made in Nigerian hardware that has a Made in Nigerian software-driver to support it

I can go on and on to list, what we don’t have, not to even mention going to the extent of measuring our competency level, when it comes to developing a cutting edge software that can serve the needs of the local market without borrowing a software from overseas, be it from the open source community or the commercial market.

I think this directive is plain stupid and does not help the Nigerian software industry, besides come to think of it, who are we copying from? India? India is heavily powered by Microsoft besides having a very competent IT industry, if I am not mistaken. I know for sure that you are not helping an incompetent industry by patronising it.

I am very certain that this directive would only just promote more outsourcing and off-shoring by Nigerian labeled IT companies.

What Nigeria needs is a solid infrastructure and an effort in skills development through proper education especially in the IT industry.

A once in a lifetime time.

On Wednesday, April 5, 2006, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 AM in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 This will never happen again in your life time .

My wedding invites.

As you might all know, I am getting married to the only lady I have loved all my life hence the post. So if you happen to be interested in been one of our guest you might want to drop a comment to let us know. I would send the wedding invites plus round-trip tickets to those staying overseas.

Please note that we would provide full hotel accomodation plus meals for the duration too.

Goodness can you guys take it easy. The e-mails streaming to my inbox, were just too much.
to all those that fell for it, April Fool. Marrying at the age of 22+? Geez……..

The middle class are not comfortable.

I have been “busy busy” with school projects and other stuffs that I have not had the time to really seat my ass down and blog, but hec today is a Friday and I don’t have classes and I had a long chat with an old friend and that triggered this post.

My primary objective of wanting money is to make enough money to continue to make enough money. I can call it an Iterative constant. Would I say Money for its own sake? Yes and No, But I can say, I am quite selfish in that regards and I would explain my angle of reasoning precisely. This wants and need, is about me and my immediate family and my generation. The community also gets to benefit from this blessing as part of my pay back to what it has offered me. Someone asked me a question. The question was, you must have something you want to use the money for?

I want money for a comfortable lifestyle, freedom from “money suppression”, brought about by jealousy and greed of not been able to afford what you want or need. In fact lack of money is the root to all evils and I say that today because Nigeria for example has a troubling crime rate primarily brought about by poverty.

Rich kids do not have problems of having money because they can’t cope if they lose it, or because they can’t make it from scratch. Rich kids find themselves in that situation or should I say condition. So an aftermath shouldn’t be speculated of the possible vanishing of that condition. Nevertheless we shouldn’t forget the fact that poor kids suffer from depression and often get involved in crime if not properly trained and monitored. If you bring children to this world it is your responsibility to see that they are comfortable with the situation of this world.

A good example is inviting a guest to your house and denying the guest comfort just because they claim they do not want comfort as the case was possible to arise if your kids don’t want money. As I said it is a condition and they must embrace it just the way it is if they do not care about it. It’s not a nature, it’s a condition. Nobody likes discomfort. Humans have their needs and wants, so why would they fight against what they don’t care about?

Someone did ask me what comfort meant.
From my own understanding, comfort means, been contended with the situation in life due to the ability of meeting up to everyday needs and wants and been happy with it, and not wanting more than just that. This is without any regrets due to constraints brought about by the lack of a resource to satisfy any particualar need and want.

Comfort is a condition. You can only be comfortable when you have no immediate challenges in life that gives you discomfort.I understand wealth quite well and the need to get money. That I can go on and on to explain my beliefs an so far I have been successful in trying to pass my stance across. How about poverty? How many people can explain that state and maybe a reason to believe in that condition? One category I shouldn’t forget to mention is the “middle Class”.

The middle class actually complain more than the poor, yet they claim to be comfortable? Why are they complaining if they are comfortable? In fact their scale of preference accommodates the need for a better life which can be ensured by striving harder to earn more money. That perfectly explains why they celebrate a pay increase!! Or wish they could buy that car!! Or in some cases even invest in mutual funds to earn more, yet they claim they are “comfortable with their current state” which indirectly I can say infers that they are not interested in anything more than they currently earn or have?

Another interesting situation is “I can afford but I don’t want nor need, even though I might use or have a use for it”, it is call stinginess from the human general perspective but that actually properly explains an internal comfort with the current situation in life and to me that is been comfortable in a sense of when you want to believe in the aspect of staying within the realms of the middle class.

Richness is a condition that ensures comfort within the paradigm of needs and wants but been in the “middle-class” category does not bring comfort.

Movies time.

Well what have I achieved this week? I really don’t know. Ah yes besides I just bought two Dvd movies, guess the title? Munich and the Origins of the Da Vinci Code. I am so excited and yeah would watch it later tonight. Yes I know Da Vinci Code hasn’t, been released yet. Mind you this is not a cam correlation ;) .
munichda vinci

Well yeah and also I am busy still with projects, although I dedicate some quality time for myself. I miss the internet and blogging this week.

Blogging Holiday.

Well as I said on monday, I have been very busy of recent, with lots of things coming into my way and taking my time. I have a handful number of designs, I am doing, plus school projects and also my new addiction to the tv series LOST. I apologise to daily visitors for the lack of regular blog entries this week, in fact I would call it a blogging holiday week.

Well I would blog on the usual techie stuff when I go back home (currently blogging from school), and well my Valentine day was sortof special, just me and myself enjoying a good night rest. Imagine that!! How better can it be? Don’t go there ;) . By the way happy Valentine to all those who happen to be indirectly or directly engaged in the past special moments of their life. Anyway stay tuned…….

Journal Roundup. Issue #4.

Here is the roundup of what I covered last week. It came out today monday but I am gonna back date it to sunday. I was just a little bit too busy.

6th February 2006

A busy weekend. Under Personals and site updates.
Working on this blogs pages, a little about what is going on etc……

7th February 2006

Newsvine Invites to give out. Under Tech
I had Newsvine invites, and I still have more to give out.

Kazey Journal featured. Under General Stuffs
Kazey Journal got featured as the blog of the week in another blog.

8th February 2006

Does the right to freedom of speech justify printing the Danish cartoons? Under World.
When one person’s liberty collides with another’s values, there is no clear occupant of the moral high ground.

9th February 2006

Web 2.0 craze infects online music. Under Tech and software .
Featuring Songbird 0.1, yet another product of the evolving craze in the web2.0 world has just been released.

10th February 2006

Google is venturing into web hosting? Under Tech, marketing Business, and E-commerce .
A rumour spreading around the net pointing in the direction towards Googles possibility in venturing into web hosting is streghtened by Googles new ICANN license

Now you can talk in Gmail. Under Tech
Google introduced Google talk within Gmail client, and I was lucky to have hands on before it dissapeared again.

Google Adsense tips for blogs. Under Tech
Google unveils adsense tips for the blogging industry.

12th February 2006

12 year old visit’s jail for making a joke
. under CRAZY NEWS
Do you know that you can go to jail in the US for making a nasty joke in public or in school? Now to me that really does sound ridiculous especially when the joke is coming from a 12 year old kid.

12 year old visit’s jail for making a joke.

Do you know that you can go to jail in the US for making a nasty joke in public or in school? Now to me that really does sound ridiculous especially when the joke is coming from a 12 year old kid.

A 12-year-old Aurora boy who said he brought powdered sugar to school for a science project this week has been charged with a felony for possessing a look-alike drug, Aurora police have confirmed

The arrest was triggered by two other boys who asked if the bag contained cocaine after he showed it to them in the bathroom. He joked that it was cocaine, before telling them, “just kidding,” but well it landed him in jail after the custodian of the school reported to the police.


Comments:
I really do not understand why making a joke can land you in jail. US boast so much for having a very indulgent system, blessed with freedom and opportunity, but yet they are the worst at handling a simple joke coming from a 12 year old. How pathetic.

The full news story can be read here under Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar.

Google Adsense tips for blogs.

google adsenseAs Google support team claims and I quote “Blogging is near and dear to our hearts here at Inside AdSense. We know you want to get the most out of those posts – but how do you do it? “, and I must say Google really is in love with blogging. Google does have 15 corporate natured blogs, which is quite a number from just one company.

Now back to what I was actually going to blog about, this love of Google for blogs and bloggers led them to release a very helpful adsense placement map for bloggers to aid them in getting a better CTR(Click through rate). Well I would consider implementing the side ad unit which I am yet to implement on my blog soon. For further reading you might as well want to read the full content here.
google ad tips