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Akpos Night Drive

Thank God, Akpos finally hammer and buys a new Automatic BMW X6 sport.
He drives the car perfectly well during the day, but at night the car just won’t move at all.


He tries driving the car at night for a week but still no luck.
He then furiously calls the BMW dealers and they sent out a technician to him.
The technician asks,
“Sir, are you sure you are using the right gears?”

Full of anger Akpos replies,
“You fool, idiot man, how you could ask such a question, I’m not stupid! I use D for the Day and N for the Night.”

Posted while on the move.

How Do I Accept Payments on my Website? Part 5

The adventure with Magento for web payment came to a crashing end faster than I thought. Like my previous post explained, Magento is extremely powerful and highly configurable. However, it doesn’t lend itself to ease of deployment or management.

It has just way too many settings and configurations that could drive even a mad man insane. For the middling developers, the structure is bloated and cumbersome with thousands of files and annoying folder structure.

So I’m giving up on it for a while to try another approach. Maybe it would be osCommerce, OpenCart, etc. my research should tell me. But whether I like it or not, we have to crack this online payment experiment.

In the midst of my frustration, I have left my friend, fellow executive guinea-pig extremely angry and taciturn.

But it seems I’m not alone. As far back as 2009, Magento has been driving people nuts.

Monkey Business

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced that he would buy monkeys for $10.

The villagers went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10. As monkeys became scarce, he upped the price to $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers. Soon the supply diminished again.

The offer rate increased to $25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it! The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $100! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on his behalf.

In the man’s absence, the assistant said to the villagers: “Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $75 each and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $100 each.” The villagers brought out their life savings and bought all the monkeys.

Thereafter, they never saw the man nor his assistant again—only monkeys everywhere!

Driven by faith, Government hikes electricity tariff

Electricity prices will take a leap, not necessarily of faith, on June 1, 2012 as government is saying we need that to attract investors.

Now that is faith which is an evidence of things not seen as I haven’t seen anything this government, and the ones before, have done even when they tell us to just believe. Would you call our government faith healers who dispense anguish to cure the malaise called irregular power supply?

But then what can I do? Maybe load up on electricity and see how long I can ride the cheap prices until realities catch up with me.