Socialist Michelle Bachelet, would be swon in as Chile’s first woman president in March 11. The interesting thing about this is, a cabinet of 10 women and 10 men, fullfilling a campaign promise of equal opportunity government, was unveiled on Monday.

It seems the pledge to narrow the gap between rich and the poor and also help in the improvement of the status of women in Chile is going to see the light of the day.

Dec 20: Bombing of pipeline killed 11 people.
Jan 11: Four Shell oil workers kidnapped-released Jan 30 without ransom payment.
Jan 11: Oil pipeline blown up
Jan 15: Speedboat attack on Shell platform.
Jan 24: Nine people killed in attack on offices of an Italian oil firm Agip.
Jan 29: Rebels attack HQ of South Korea’s Daewoo oil company.

It does not just end there, current barrel production of Nigeria per day is now 2.19 million which makes Nigeria rank 8th position in global production.

The question I have is:-
Is this attack justified for the so called cause?
Does this do any good to Nigerian’s reputation in the global community?
Does the government of Nigeria have plans in seeing an end to this malice?
Is Nigeria a safe place to live?

It disheartens me, to see Nigeria embrace democracy and still be facing problems that threaten peace and harmony to the people living within its territory. Where is the love?

Google annouced its interest in Operating systems, and I am sure the news would provoke Microsoft. Google said, it is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop in a project called Goobuntu. A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop.This is indeed a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business – desktop software.

What I dont understand is, isn’t the race in building an internet empire occupying enough? I think google is getting too ambitious. How about if they become successful in making it to be able to execute windows based applications? What would happen. Would that trigger an aggressive feedback from Microsoft? Well that would also be good news to the opensource community.

Anywayz lets wait and see.

News can be read, HERE.

Worried about people snooping around your workplace, when you are out? Need to keep an eye out for your kids at home?

Well there is a gadget that would just do that. The D-Link Security camera Network DCS-950G wireless internet camera. It connects to a computer through an Ethernet cable or wireless network, whilst taking snapshots or recording with high-quality video and audio.

It is also packed with much more features that would just serve your surveillance needs. I should warn you that it can not be used for spying, without it revealing itself, for its obvious size.

More information can be found at the product website Here.

Is there a website that really annoys you? Well there is a way of venting your anger at such a website.

A new website, www.netdisaster.com provides web surfers, with just what they need. A variety of options to let go of the steam, including throwing virtual cow dung or a meator shower over the website of their choice.

Quite cool, I must confess. So which site would that be?

Blog Worm, have you been infected yet?

Most of us have done it in one way or another. Let our emotions get better of us in our e-mail. Perhaps emails should come with a disclaimer at the bottom? Caution: “May Inflict Injury or even “Sender might be loaded”. That’s because, even after years in which e-mail has been a common communications medium, many people still don’t seem to know how to use it.

Imagine getting an email of one page length from a customer in capitals? Or even the curt, insensitive and often downright rude e-mail messages that pop into my mailbox often regularly. I am far from being the sensitive type, but then again, the rate at which the emails come in, regularly, calls for questioning.

Well here are some suggestions on how to keep it less annoying.
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Payment processors play an important role in the world of E-commerce. It is either you are using it to pay for a product or service or to get paid for offering a product or service. Whichever position you find yourself, you are left to do the worrying, on whether the payment processor you are using is worth using or not. Security, Reliability, and Support are primary concerns in decision making.

The method normally been chosen by the online public, depends also on certain factors, which is normally brought about by the restrictions set by the processor or payment gateway. This restriction is generally determined by the laid down regulations sometimes call terms, that governs the existence of the processor.

I have been opportune to use a lot of payment processors either at the receiving end or from the sending end, be it for pleasure or for business. So, I would say I have the prerequisite to give feedbacks to the services been offered by the processors I have had the opportunity to use.

The payment processors I have been opportune to use are Paypal, Emocorp, Stormpay, 2checkout, E-gold and Moneybookers.
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This week had been a very busy week, and here is the roundup of, what I covered.

22nd January 2006

Clones in Malaysia. Under Gadgets
OEM gadgets are very popular in Asia, so I decided to start blogging about those I come across in the Malaysian market.

Switching from php to Java2. Under Programming
A summary of the reasons, on why I decided to switch from php4 to Java2 instead of progressing to php5.

23rd January 2006

Rutgers-Camden Research introduces graphical passwords. Under Security
A research team at Rutgers University—Camden has developed a unique solution to use images for authentication processes to computers and online accounts.

OEM Wireless headset for voip. Under Gadgets
A review of an OEM-wireless USB headset that supports VOIP for MSN, Skype, Netmeeting, MP3 besides others.

The kazza’s Successor Under Tech
A tutorial on how to use bitcomet an alternative p2p software that supports the torrent technology.

24th January 2006
Google’s co-founder’s cash in timing questionable? Under Business
The timing at which the 32-year-old celebrity co-founders of Google each sold more than $160 million worth of their company’s stock raised some eyebrows among corporate governance experts.

MP3 player for your car. Under Gadgets.
A review on an MP3 player which solves the problem of playing mp3s from your SD/MMC/thumbdrive inside your car.

In the blink of an eye. Under Web Design
How well a website is designed plays an important role on the traffic which is directly related to the impression it generates at first sight.

Windows Live messenger invitations to give out. Under Tech
I had 5 windows Live messenger beta invitiations to give out.

25th January 2006
Are you suffering from Internet addiction disorder? Under Personals
Discussing issues in relation to Internet addiction disorder and cross-checeking myself whether I am an addict?

Need Mad traffic to your blog? Under SEO
BlogMad a new traffic exchange, which boasts of more than 2000 members promises to help drive mad traffic to blogs.

26th January 2006

Mobile VOIP is finally here. Under Tech
A Malaysian telecom company NasionCom Holdings Berhad, is introducing two VOIP mobile handsets into the market this year.

MacDonalds Success? Under Business, Entreprenuership
Business Systemization is a key ingredient to having a successful less stressful businesses.

Pinging for blog traffic. Under SEO.
Pinging your blog entries, to blog directories, to tell them of recent updates, helps generate reasonable amount of traffic to your blog.

USA tops spam-spewing list. Under Security
USA for all its fight against spams, tops the spam-spewing list released by Sophos. Nigeria suprisingly is not in the list.

27 January 2006

E-commerce key player’s in Nigeria. Under Tech
Featuring the key player’s in the e-commerce industry in Nigeria.

Your Creativity could win you 1000USD. Under Competition
A $1000USD prized competition is been organized by Progressive-U on blogging about current events, society, the environment, and public policy.

Nigeria is a third world country and surprisingly e-commerce is emerging at a very astonishing rate. The main key players in Nigeria are quiet innovative and patient. Although there are quite a lot of already abandon web projects along the years. Nevertheless we shouldnt forget that it is like that everywhere.

The Nigerian web market is very promising although it has not been infected with the normal “leap-frogging” factor which is a very common fate with technologies in her market.

The key players in the Nigerian web market are:-
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