Category: Personal

She came on a quiet Sunday (May 19, 1946) but left on not such a quiet note. On April 7, 2012  DT Olowe was buried. A perfect example of what we should aspire to be.

She flew away serenely, never to be seen again. As her wings whipped the air gently; we the kids were supported by mortal men; those with the heart of gold.

On behalf of my siblings and extended family, I want to say a big thank you to everyone who has offered support, love and a shoulder to wet with our tears.

The good Lord shall be with you all.

Ojó á jìnà sí ara. Àmín

On September 28, 2009, my dad quietly left me behind to be with the Lord. I took comfort in my mum. An angel in flesh.

No one ever had a bad word to say about her. Stern and born a headmistress, but she had love thoroughly coursing through her veins, dishing help left, right, and center.

She ate through books like a proper bookworm. Always working. Super inquisitive.

God felt we have had it too good. Maybe we were getting too comfortable to think she was mortal like us. He suddenly and forcibly reminded us that she’s more of His than of us.

So on March 15, 2012, God took my mother away. Never for me to see her again.

Never to share a moment with her again.

I’m sad. Cranky. But yet grateful for the life she led.

When I grow up, I want to be like her.

Sleep well. DT Olowe.

From 6, then 5. And all the other numbers you can think of.

Two things got me off blogging over the last 2months+.
First I divorced my previous web host because they got too cranky, nagging and wanted things I couldn’t give (more money!) despite the fact that their performance was just marginally better than a Russian Lada car raising a dust storm on a back road in Western Sahara. Along the line my bro hooked me up with another host but didn’t kind of fancy her (or it?). It lacked the pizzazz to make my blood sizzle. So like what boys do, I went searching for that fancy host. Found one, paid top dollars and guess what, absolutely rubbish! Too bad, premium wine down the basket, so back to the host I spurned – the one from my bro. maybe elders do know what is good for us after all.
Then I got into another function at work that practically sucked all the time I have. In fact, the few minutes I could eke out each day are spent thinking of how I could invent a time expander. Since Einstein said that time is relative, maybe I could find a way to get more minutes per hour, especially between 12 midnight and 5AM in the morn.
On a serious note, I’m actively considering my interest in ColdFusion. I have stick this for so long but I think Adobe is too greedy and too shortsighted that in 5 years, only dinosaurs would know how to write CF. Getting a decent hosting for a CF site is like asking for a pink elephant with wings. I could search forever.
Time to start punishing my friends with those crazy posts!

I don’t know if it’s just my end alone but of recent the electricity supply from PHCN has been pretty good. In fact too good to be true. But who can satisfy Nigerians? Trust that I still need to gripe about it. Why? Well, it is a bit complicated. I use a prepaid meter and the non-stop electricity supply is zapping my “credit” so fast you could think that the utility meter is a stop watch. To get me even more annoyed, government announced that they are upgrading the prices to N25/KwH soon. Why do we always benchmark cost to other countries but we never do same for minimum wage or roads or rails or [*insert your gripe here*].

The following table shows the price of electricity per Kilowatt Hour across different countries. This should serve as a quick reference to what other guys pay in these countries.

Country	$/KwH	N/KwH
Kingdom of Tonga	0.4570	73.12
Denmark	0.4289	68.62
Italy	0.3723	59.57
Netherlands	0.3470	55.52
Germany	0.3066	49.06
Philippines	0.2880	46.08
Sweden	0.2734	43.74
Ireland	0.2389	38.22
Spain	0.1950	31.20
France	0.1925	30.80
UK	0.1859	29.74
Croatia	0.1755	28.08
Singapore	0.1734	27.74
Portugal	0.1639	26.22
Nigeria (Proposed)	0.1563	25.00
Hong Kong	0.1230	19.68
Iceland	0.1161	18.58
Belgium	0.1143	18.29
Perú	0.1044	16.70
South Africa	0.1015	16.24
USA	0.0928	14.85
Malaysia	0.0742	11.87
Australia	0.0711	11.38
Finland	0.0695	11.12
Nigeria (Currently)	0.0625	10.00
Canada	0.0618	9.89

• ^{This data is for comparison only. The validity of the data is not guaranteed.}
• ^{Naira to Dollar exchange marked to N160/$1.}</
• ^{Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing}