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Monthly Archives July 2015

The strong also fail and it’s no big deal

Sometimes you just need to know when to call it quits. Does that make you a loser? Hell no! Or maybe. You can’t be sure until it’s all over. The way it is, the most important thing is to win the war but you may lose some battles or side street skirmishes in the interest […]

Posted 28 July 2015 † dejiolowe § Business § Future § Piscalux ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

How to run a WordPress blog on Amazon AWS (for free)

I got into blogging before it became a common word. Sometime in March 2001 I created my first website, dejiolowe.com, put some random information there and just literally talked about crap. Fast forward to 2005, I moved my blog to a ColdFusion engine, BlogCFC by Raymond Camden and started real blogging. I was active once […]

Posted 26 July 2015 † dejiolowe § Mobile § Piscalux ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged:

Crispr is the new Little Boy

You’ve probably never heard of Crispr but then who has? I bet you are creepier than a centipede that killed a snake if you ‘ve. I was trolling some biology news of recent when I bumped into an interesting story about gene editing. By the way, I’m curious about genetics. I once did a genetic algorithm […]

Posted 24 July 2015 † dejiolowe § Future § Piscalux ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Micro-lending, or lack of it, didn't kill Financial Inclusion

My recent rant on what’s making mincemeat out of financial inclusion in Nigeria generated quite a bit of talk within my little circle of friends. Some thought I must have mistakenly installed someone’s mind while looking for my lost one. A pitiful few others felt it made some sense, which is something that’s rarely said […]

Posted 20 July 2015 † dejiolowe § Business § Mobile § Nigeria § Payment ‡ Comments (0) °

Where are the killer apps?

So many things don’t work in Nigeria – too many to count. But one thing, I mean absolutely one thing, that Nigeria or Nigerians are at par with the world would be phones. We just love the damned mobs. But that’s not the end of it; the real McCoy is the smartphone. At first only […]

Posted 20 July 2015 † dejiolowe § Mobile § Nigeria § Payment ‡ Comments (0) °